Cassette tapes are big business. In prison

Apparently, cassette tapes aren't dead after all. But who on earth still listens to them? Inmates, according to a post on boingboing, that quotes an interview from Pack Central, a company that sells popular recordings on cassette.

Who is buying (owner Bob) Paris' cassettes? America's 2.3 million prisoners. Which brings us to the second advantage of tape over compact disc: a tape can't be broken apart and used as a shiv. Prisoners are allowed to have them. 60% of Paris' business is in cassette tapes.

Paris' excited conclusion: "[By selling cassette tapes] I have dodged every conventional bullet that has hit most music retailers," Paris says. "I don't have to worry about downloading, legal or illegally. The beauty of it is that prisoners don't have Internet access and never will."

Related: - Music Retailer Thrives Serving Captive Audience

emily | 8:41 AM | News, Buzz |
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