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  <title>Tantai Jin Apologist</title>
  <subtitle>I have zero chill &amp; am here to make that everyone's problem.</subtitle>
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    <name>thispatternismine</name>
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  <updated>2024-12-21T14:58:14Z</updated>
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    <title>Tape victory!</title>
    <published>2024-12-21T14:58:14Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-21T14:58:14Z</updated>
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    <category term="yes please"/>
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    <dw:music>Queen - I Want to Break Free</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>happy</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Wandered down to a local event (basically an artisan/independent market with some entertainment), expecting I'd that I'd just wander round, maybe buy a brownie or two, maybe a lip balm because there was supposed to be a seller there who made them &amp; I need some. The lip balm seller wasn't there, but I got a mug I'd been eyeing up at previous markets for half price (&amp; it was £10 so that was a bargain). And there was a vintage stall in a separate room that I'm not sure was part of the same event that had cassette tapes! There were a few good ones, but at £2 that adds up if you're buying a couple, &amp; most of them were good as in 'I kinda like the artist &amp; it's a decent album I guess but I ain't exactly desperate'. Apparently they have a store, in a town that's not that far away, but I've never had reason to go there, so I'll go after christmas &amp; see what their full selection is like, since I doubt they brought everything. I did buy a Queen greatest hits album, because there's just banger after banger with no dud tracks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=thispatternismine&amp;ditemid=67279" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2023-09-03:4141581:58809</id>
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    <title>Look at what I picked up in a charity shop today!!</title>
    <published>2024-04-28T18:57:44Z</published>
    <updated>2024-04-28T23:06:14Z</updated>
    <category term="games"/>
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    <category term="games: vr"/>
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    <dw:music>Kenny Thomas - Thinking About Your Love</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>happy</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/d0b42a420417a392c0f356f63cc8e638/21b6ea1ebd005c78-60/s2048x3072/794e14ea0419ab5b1b6a76320c7cefd387f5575a.jpg" width="100%"&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;It's a Sony CFS-W301L, late 80s (funnily enough I guessed 1987-ish &amp; some googling of the model number tells me &lt;a href="https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_fmmwlwsw_cassette_corder_cfs_w301l.html"&gt;Radio Museum&lt;/a&gt; agrees with me &amp; I was able to find &lt;a href="https://elektrotanya.com/sony_cfs-w301.pdf/download.html"&gt;the manual&lt;/a&gt; which also suggests I'm correct so, like, yes!)

&lt;p&gt;It only cost me £5!

&lt;p&gt;Look at these beautiful tactile buttons!
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&lt;p&gt;It's a bit scraped on the front, but eh whatever if I decide I fancy listening to a long or medium wave station, I can still figure out tuning the radio even without being able to see the frequencies properly
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&lt;p&gt;They say they tested the tape player working in the shop, but I don't have any tapes atm, so I'll have to get some. Considering it needed a bit of cleaning externally, the tape heads will probably need cleaning, so I'll see if I can get a cleaning cassette as well
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&lt;p&gt;Bonus photo: Old Sony &amp; new Sony
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