Finding secondhand disco tapes only to find them taped over!

[discodevil]

Ive been looking for a copy of a album by a group called Game Over by Player 1 who had a hit in Australia in the 1970's called Space Invaders. Well I have not been able to find a vinyl copy but found a cassette of it. Got it home played it and whoever owned it before me had taped over it with Toto yuk!!!!! What a bummer! :evil:
Has this ever happen to any other members? I would love to know what the **** got taped over their classic disco tapes? :evil:

[Videoskooter]

That's an awful discovery when you want to play tapes and notice that they are erased or replaced with something else on it.

When I did a mix on tape and I was satisfied with it, I immediately removed the security-lit, so I never got the problem.

I do the same with videotapes.

I also keep my "masters" in special little plastic bags so they pretty survived the years. I sometimes play my old mixes and they still sound pretty good. Which is excellent coz' I still got tapes with discorecords that I don't have myself and so it's close to the real thing.

[Bernie]

Back in the day I used to record my mixes onto cassettes and my brother and sisters would swipe them when I wasn't around. I would find some had been mangled or parts taped over :cry:

I still have tons of old home recorded cassettes with my mixes... lying around. As good as the equipment and media I used back then was they don't really sound that great now. Glad I recorded using TDK MAR metal bias cassettes for the most part, because if I had used anything less they probably wouldn't have survived as long as they have. Took my favorites and archived them onto CD.