TOP 10 Most Valuable CASSETTE TAPES In My Collection

[@23ofSeptember]

I remember my father having those Frankie cassettes (we lived in Canada). He threw everything away of course over a decade ago.

[@sligacheese6470]

I have around a hundred heavy metal and classic rock. Just love them and I just found green hornet tapes at value village ❤

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

I still buy cassettes when I see them. Bought two this morning. Well done love your collection

[@sligacheese6470]

1.99 each at value village Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

@@sligacheese6470 wish I was close enough for a day trip. :).

[@bloodromance4776]

Severed heads now is my new favourite industrial band, thank you for that!

[@kieraingeaney6437]

born 1992 grew up with Mum having cassettes now i listen to them! i have a few from the 70s that play like new!

[@bottomendbliss]

Cool hat, cool video. Love Devo. Never got to see them live unfortunately. Would have been a blast.

[@vinyleyezz]

Excellent Cassette wall dude! 😊👍 very cool tapes!

[@ramsalustiano0970]

Yo I've been a fan of you sir!!

[@jaws_gaming]

Wsp bro

[@Schleeky]

Im 13 years old and I own a bin full of cassettes and I use them every day

[@MichaelPilmer]

What are your favorites?

[@chasemarkmckenzie622]

Seeing your collection is like a paradise Sir

[@dennisdemark8151]

Enjoy your videos Mike...I have approximately 3000 tapes just love them!

[@MichaelPilmer]

Niiiiiiice

[@kylec.8350]

I'm obsessed with cassette tapes!!!!

[@ufobigfoot4002]

Nice! love that Joe Young tape, I still need to get the 7”! Great video!

[@xfoolsgoldx]

I wouldn't mind collecting but don't see me playing them very often. Love your collection💙👍

[@juliekmunden]

I have a Bobby Brown cassette playing in my mini van at work. Nice collection, sir.

[@pjganley]

King of stage!

[@AnAutoEnthusiastsLife]

Awesome video! Love the view of the collection! Also, THANK YOU for providing information that so many resellers will want to be paid for giving. I just sold a sealed Kenny Chesney Cassette for $14.99 shipped and I thought I did good.

[@MrColjazz]

Wow, what a fantastic collection of cassettes you have collected. I also love the cassette format and have quite a few, but nowhere near as many as you. great video. I have subscribed.

[@nickbitten6037]

Interesting video. I have picked up so many tapes in the last few years- some of the jazz tapes and Aussie bands are around £28 - £35 on Discogs but i have lots of ones picked up at charity shops. Also a lot of sealed blank tapes. Nice to see record stores selling some again as well. " Keep On Collecting".

[@Astronautasasquirrel]

Hello Micheal, I love your videos. I have been collecting tapes since 2017, but it was worth it. Awesome collection and I wish you the best for the rest of your day.

[@josedejesushernandezbarbos3037]

Mi hermano te felicitó por tú colección de cassettes y la manera en que los tienes en el mueble, cuidalos con tú alma, y tambien he visto tus otros vídeos, un abrazó desde Cd Neza, Estado de México....

[@MichaelPilmer]

Thanks for the kind words, and for watching my videos! I will care for my cassettes like they are children...but even better!!

[@deadlyuncle710]

I have a grandpa musician who made a cassette album in the 1990s, but he only sold them in one place, and that's what makes them rare and hard to find the album is called "Marlon House and the bow valley raiders I wanna be with you" and he's not a well known artist so his cassette albums are rare and its not listed online nothing on Google to

[@MichaelPilmer]

Would love to see that cassette! Thanks for watching my video!

[@deadlyuncle710]

Your welcome ​@MichaelPilmer

[@EricSquires]

LOVE This! More please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dalemoyers8881]

Great video!! I still have my cassette collection as well. I lost count when I got over 1000 of them. Nice to know that some are worth some money. Keep up the great work. 😎

[@MichaelPilmer]

Thanks for watching!!

[@AGUILAR3]

Prices didn’t age too well. Just bought Break Master for $7 on eBay. Thanks for the heads up. Lots of great songs.

[@danakimborowicz5812]

Wow, some nice cassettes. Thanks for showing. Take care😀

[@surgen9499]

Cassette tapes always sounded Best to my ears . Just Love Cassettes !!

[@robytheduck7170]

Nice collection i also began collecting cassettes since august 2016😊 where i found a sanyo endless loop tape.

[@TheVinylGuru]

Look at that SHRINE honey.

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

Wow! That Sputnik packaging is AWESOME!

[@omegaman1409]

Tapes will be around for some time. The retro market is well alive. I got back into it for the nostalgia and unique experience. Got another piece of history. A walkman.

[@CJsComicsandGames]

Love your collection! Would love to showcase mine like you have yours. I have around 300 cassettes, most of which I unfortunately paid full price for when they were released! But I'm glad I did because I would listen to them over and over and they hold so many great memories for me now. They were my first introduction to songs you didn't hear on the radio. And so many of them I would think: "Why isn't this on the radio?"

[@MichaelPilmer]

Thanks for watching!!

[@Handorgeous]

@@MichaelPilmer I also have 8 tracks and it's a Tex-Mex group called grupo Mazz and I have the LP also that's called the look of Mazz and it was hard to find in LP or 8-track and the 3 cassettes of the Monkees and other things I used to record on cassettes.

[@shawneldridge4465]

Seen this video here is bringing back a pretty good memory, that's for sure. Now this is probably going back early 80 sometime and when I was only in the 6th grade. I got three things for my birthday that day. 1. Was a Walkman, 2. Iron maiden somewhere in Time cassette tape and 3. Two packs of AA batteries for my Walkman cassette tape player. I've gotten more than that but these were like the main things. A lot of the other kids in school were surprised that my parents got me something like that, they weren't shocked about the cassette player tape. They were more shocked about the iron maiden somewhere in Time because a tape. But it was all good.

[@porker-uhh]

Some of the rarest cassette tapes I've seen on the market are the original Daniel Johnston Cassettes. They're so rare because he would hand make and package each and every one of them. They go for around 200 dollars each (depending on the album).

[@alexkay1874]

Thanks very interesting . What tape machine do you listen on

[@MichaelPilmer]

Whatever works! Thrift store bought decks, boomboxes, etc.

[@technodiscolovers9050]

I’m seriously thinking about becoming a cassette collector. I was a CD collector up until 2 weeks ago and decided to shift to vinyl but I’m finding it way too expensive and it doesn’t bring me much joy tbh. I like the look of cassettes, I’m mainly into 90s music so it won’t be a problem collecting. What do you think? Should I do this??? Any tips and advice

[@MichaelPilmer]

Email me for some tips. You can find my email address on my 'About' page on this YT channel...and also on the 'Contact' page at Devo-Obsesso.com.

[@waz3128]

I did this. I inadvertantly found a few dirt cheap good titles at a garage sale a few years ago in London a few years ago which ignited a slight interest in the format I thought was dead. Nowdays however they’ve become more expensive than I thought. Sellers know the value of the ones that are in demand. Another problem is superfans of bands want to own a copy of an album in all format as ornaments which also pushes up prices

[@bottomendbliss]

Plus cassettes sound really nice on either high or low volume on a good deck. Get into it, theyre fun. You can sometimes find bulk deals really cheap. Iv got vinyl, cd, cassette and mini disk and its fun just picking any media anytime and hearing the difference. Its a tactile thing. Noveltys are very underrated.

[@Mike-yo7nb]

Frankie goes to Hollywood is my favorite.

[@USAMP926C]

I still maintain a cassette collection as well. I enjoy just looking at them sometimes. My favorite format is CD though.

[@noelwhite6650]

These are some really cool tapes. All of the cassettes I'm after are incredibly rare and not for sale. Generally stuff like the early Beck or Smog or Modest Mouse cassettes. It would be amazing to find them. Keep the cassettes coming !.

[@noelwhite6650]

@Jonathon Chapin that sounds awesome. Do you have Beck's Golden Feelings tape ?.

[@WydahoOutdoors]

Never seen that FGTH 3 pack!!! Thanks for sharing!! 👍👍

[@BlytheWorld1972]

As a collector i love collecting Tapes you should look out for the tapes from the uk Hits and pics sets there on a big card you get a tape and book together just like the spudnick cassette you have i have the mel and kim and five star versions may not be up your street but both made fab pop music SAM fox and spandu had a set also ..

[@TheVinylGuru]

Weren’t we JUST talking about severed heads? Haha hold on a second here. Damn, i had no idea you had such a wild cassette collection. I love this so much.

[@rockerdave1984]

Wow super nice collection! Curious if you have any of those concert fan club cassette tapes that used to show up at independent record & tapes stores??

[@nickseidler2534]

Beautiful SSSpuntik blister pack cassette there. Nice work. Hope you are well!

[@reactorlgtn2]

40 seconds in and I'm like YES! I HAVE THAT!

[@felinoaaron846]

For me the cassettes are close to the master audio tape, but the best one is when they made in Cromo, this one sounds much better that Lp Or Cd, nice collection

[@liamjeffersongallagher9176]

The Devo shirt is lit...

[@baidaG]

Great video and great collection. Do you happen to have any Memphis rap or dirty south cassettes from the 90s up to early 2000's?

[@bentlight04]

I used to see Antiseen in Spartanburg S.C. at Dawg Gone. Where are they originally from?

[@HunterMann]

Hi, this is the first I’ve seen of your videos. I really enjoyed this and it was so cool to see the variety of crazy stuff you have found. I’m not surprised about the values of them. Far too many people can’t get beyond thinking that “a cassette is only 50-cents worth of plastic,.” Luckily some of us know it’s the analog audio That is part of the value of the cassette, but also the total presentation of it... from flashy graphics, well-designed packaging, or just some really funky simple packaging: some of them are just so plain and simple, with the Xerox labels of black ink on white, probably printed late at night in a Kinko’s. I used to produce free indie movie nights and we’d print posters at a big 24-hour printing place in a college town. We would come in after midnight and bring the workers a few good coffee drinks. In exchange they would give us a few hundred dollars worth of printing for free, oh hell yeah! What I like about some of your tapes that are very plain artwork and probably noisy irritating music, is that they almost look like a ‘zine in cassette form. By the way, curious if you were a collector of indie zine magazines back in the 80s or 90s? There were some of them that included a cassette tape every month. And then there was one that came with a free CD, I think it was called “cool beans”. Getting back to you and your most admirable collecting of offbeat, rare cassette tapes: I’m curious if you collect “incredibly strange music”, you probably know that genre. There are a few really great books about that type of music. I collect a lot of that on vinyl, I have collected since the early 80s. I was collecting bossa nova & tiki lounge music easily 20 years before anyone realized how cool it was. Perhaps you know of ambient music, geniuses like Brian Eno? His most famous recording is “music for airports”. And then there are records like the moog records, theremin records , hypnotic mood music by the greats like Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac... I think that genre is collected probably a lot more on vinyl than it is on cassettes. Sometimes the music is just OK but the album cover art is out of this world! If nothing else I hope you will check out the amazing music of Esquivel and Martin Denny. And finally, I am a part-time eBay seller and never really paid attention to cassettes much until just yesterday. At a big thrift store I saw that the cassettes were 10-cents each, so I did about an hour of crate digging I and found some real gems. Obscure unknown surf band, a few really bizarre Christian country cassettes from the early 70s, and one of them was a very rare Tijuana Brass cassette worth $28-$58 ! Not bad for 10 cents!!

[@MichaelPilmer]

Glad to hear from someone else who loves cassettes. Yes I have some Eno and other ambient/strange listening. Love that stuff....Just found Ima Sumac on CD a few days ago for 50 cents at a local thrift. I love the album she released where she covers rock music songs. And yes, I have a great collection of old 80s zines, somewhere in my attic...but not the ones you mentioned. I think I only came across one or two of the cassette zine style mags..but can't remember the details. Anyway, thanks a ton for watching my videos!

[@dominicm2941]

That Sigue Sigue Sputnik tape is so cool. I'm curious if you own any El Duce cassette tapes. Those seem pretty rare.

[@MichaelPilmer]

Never owned an El Duce tape but I do have Mentors on tape.

[@dominicm2941]

@@MichaelPilmer Very cool! I've been listening to their album To the Max on CD lately. There's a lot of classic songs on that one.

[@powerkontroller4874]

Impressive collection

[@outdoorlife8086homeaudio]

I got a music shop 2 blocks from me, they sell vinyl and cassette. The prices are decent but some are crazy.

[@SegaSaturnGamer48]

Great video! :)

[@henrys3629]

I just bought a GE Cassette player. It's not great but it was in box for $3. I kept very few of my tapes, but recorded a lot of rare punk over 10 years ago off a community radio station. Have the breakmaster on LP. My best is a tape of Art Alexakis in a band before he was in Everclear. Jammed and left a warped spot.

[@izwanshaari9854]

Holy sh*t! I am so jealous! I used to collect cassettes before moving on to digital. Now that collecting cassette Walkman bite me again, I have very few cassettes to play on them😔

[@MissEwe]

Thanks for turning me on to Severed Heads 😎🤘❤

[@MichaelPilmer]

Omg I have loved Sevs for decades!! Any fave songs yet?

[@Halterung01]

Woah, it looks like you know what you're talking about. I have one tape in my collection that I feel like it might be valuable but I never knew who to ask. I have a japanese, sealed Bach from Deutsche Grammophon. If this sounds interesting, I have made a very short little video about it, showing it from all sides. I'd love to hear an opinion on that one. I couldn't find any info on that one or even a picture of it.

[@benharrison7855]

Katy Perry’s first album when she was Katy Hudson sells for a lot! I sold my first copy for $135! Then my Second copy about $20 ish

[@barriniho]

Wow! You use to party with Ben Folds. To be honest he was the only artist i heard of from your collection that you mentioned 😂

[@croiners4166]

Nice!

[@movement1260]

Hi Michael, awesome collection. Just a quick question about storage. What tape shelves/racks do you use? Cheers, Tim

[@MichaelPilmer]

Napa Valley wooden tape holders! They rule.

[@Timmy-06]

I got a boombox which is a cassette player and radio.But it was in a wood shop that is also used as shed so the player doesn't work. So i have to get a jensen cassette player which i have heard from a review it is good but it is a newer player so i heard they are bad

[@doomisagreatgame]

I remember a few years ago my father was working at a house in Yucaipa,California. The owner had moved out and there were some stuff left. In I think the attic, there was a box full of a ton of cassettes. My dad volunteered to take it home and he gave them to me. Inside the box of cassettes I found 2 very strange cassettes, one blank and the other one titled: JOHN LONGLEY From: San Bernardino, Ca AT: MENTONE SPEAKERS MEETING 8-20-88. I still have yet to listen to it as I'm trying to get a cassette player to listen to them EDIT: I counted them today and there is 103 cassettes in a aerosol can box

[@MichaelPilmer]

Sounds interesting for sure!

[@lumabi25]

Flaunt It by Sigue Sigue Sputnik was pure, sexual escapism for the teenage mind. No wonder the cover read "Do not play if accompanied by an adult". It was a big favourite with friends at high school in 1986 on cassette. I bought a copy of it in 1988 on CD, which I still have (with a small amount of disc rot but still playable). Amazing that it really was a digital recording as stated at the end.

[@richardfinlayson1524]

i have a couple of copies of Volcanic rock by australian hard rock band Buffalo on the vertigo label, the vinyl goes for quite a lot ,got 2 of those as well , but i rekon the tapes may be worth a bit

[@DavidHarry]

Hi Michael. Very interesting, you've got me wanting to dig through my old boxes and pull out my DEVO cassettes. I've got some Are We Not and Duty Now... cassettes from the UK and some other mainland European territories that I've not played in decades. I've also got a few of those long pack things, the ones where the cassette was inside a nice presentation box, I think it's Baby Doll or Disco Dancer, can't remember what territory though. There's also a few weird ones that are around Freedom of Choice but have got some odd mixed track lists, I don't think these are official releases and maybe some kind of bootlegs, if I remember correctly one of these was from Saudi Arabia. If there's anything interesting in there I'll let you know once I find them. Cheers, Dave.

[@jasmineblack9778]

I love cassettes & Devo

[@thomas_o]

I have that Break-Master tape. I'm not positive, but I think it came with a poster of the New York City Breakers. As I used to have the poster hanging in my bedroom when I was in my early teens.

[@MichaelPilmer]

The poster is in my bathroom!

[@lcaise]

also love cassetes - subscribed.

[@user-yq2jv3kw3n]

Do you have any Memphis underground cassettes? just wondering

[@MichaelPilmer]

I'm not even sure what Memphis underground is...! Is that a genre? Fill me in! Thanks for watching, btw.

[@user-yq2jv3kw3n]

@Michael Pilmer Memphis underground is basically like underground rap and the artist back in the 90s used to put their tracks on disc and cassettes and I was wondering if you could’ve had any because they’re so rare it’s hard to find any.

[@johnlomasney7632]

love cassette tapes

[@Triiplesiix]

I’ve been really into cassettes lately. I recently just sold a cassette for $150 on ebay. It was a limited 300 ever made. “Juice Wrld - Wrld on drugs” I got it from Newbury comics. With that I also bought twenty one pilots visceral and futures the wizrd. Those are worth over 100 aswell :)

[@MichaelPilmer]

Niiiiice! Thanks for watching!

[@arthurmckay4202]

Morta skuld, niiiice

[@LeftysRhere]

I will purchase your entire collection. Serious buyer, what's your price?

[@MichaelPilmer]

Your SOUL!!!!

[@litlgrey]

My my... Controlled Bleeding... We must alert Paul Lemos!

[@treastabenton6560]

So where do u suggest I sell my cassette tapes to I also have vinyl records and CDs

[@MichaelPilmer]

Contact me at [e-mail]

[@matjusss]

i found some cassette tapes Billboard in plastic white box , they worth money today ?

[@MichaelPilmer]

What bands do you have?

[@matjusss]

@@MichaelPilmer 2 casettes iron maiden , 1 judas priest , 1 tom jones , 1 heavy metal mix , 1 saxon destiny and 1 black sabbath

[@MichaelPilmer]

@@matjusss - Nice! Are you interested in trades?

[@lindaleg3659]

Cool blister pack. I have a few Napa Valleys. No other way to do it.

[@kvnhehe]

hello sir, i have many old cassette tapes i would like to know if they have high values, i would like you to check it if possible.

[@MichaelPilmer]

Email me...Find my email on my KZbin "About" page.

[@patelutsav9424]

Hello, I have maxell XL II 100 cassettes seal packed for many years.. I want to sell it can you help me??

[@marciothegoat]

what’s some good gear to begin 🤔

[@MichaelPilmer]

I am not a gear person, really...Don't have any advice along those lines, unfortunately.

[@timaengtipi3360]

Is there any shipping to india

[@peteradams6574]

thanks for this update....Do have a world class cassette collection... beatles... hendrix... byrds..CSNY. england/america. all great bands..artists. 60's 70's best...nearly everything... its totally awesome. an encyclo-media of music... STILL SOUND GREAT... analog tape of course...largely unrecognized as a recording muse-FREE-seum...Including great music rock biography book collection and also a great CD plus box sets same virtually all the best rock soul blues jazz country music around the year of 1970...(basically 1960-1980) when it was real.. by HEY PANEAGLESONG music of the real spirit sun and soul author of star rock legend and wildstock concert 500 original songs artist songwriter writing a song a day and rarely heard except on youtube all freely shared with 25 music playlists JIMI HENDROCKS 60 of the 60's. etc...ENTER THE REAL UNIVERSIS and MUSIC OF THE REAL URTH NOW......I am also author of D'ESTINY and SOLARIS THE REAL SOLASTRY.. the one universal SolarArts Galactician inventor of SOLAR UNIVERSAL ZODIAZ www.solrocker.blogspot.com

[@josh4590]

I have that Sputnik poster in my mancave !

[@MissEwe]

Is it Thursday yet??? Hehehe 😎🤘👍😊

[@bertroost1675]

Home made early electronic music from the 70's and early 80's goes for well above $75

[@frankmartell2063]

We named our gang name sigue sigue sputnik back in 1983

[@johnnyjimenea3613]

nice cassette tapes

[@Handorgeous]

All I have is the Monkees.

[@clamshell6863]

I just got back to collecting cassettes again just last year. I never realized how much better they sound.I have so many now and are addicted. I got a few last week and just alot a brand new copy of Jesus Christ Superstar on one tape from the 90's which sounds great.

[@RetroCassettes]

very interesting \

[@justinj3262]

I have stupid rare cassettes. I have uncut studio copies of beastie boys before their first album release and they are self verifiable. Some of the lyrics and song lengths are different than the official release. No idea what they are worth that, and a trove of japanese first prints from multiple artists. quadraphonic pink Floyds, and rolling stones. All near mint too.

[@kasetpitatabalong]

👍

[@pudsi]

PLEASE sell me No Remorse with the leather case!!!! :-)

[@MichaelPilmer]

Aw, no way! One of my favorite tapes! Thanks for watching!!

[@traversmathis8331]

Michael I have 100 to 200 cassettes I will like to sell how can I get in touch with u

[@MichaelPilmer]

Find my email address on the 'About' page on my KZbin channel.

[@RajababuMusicWorld]

I like music audio cassette.

[@michaellauterborn5701]

do you have free one cassette tape

[@sandhyasaini5452]

do you want more cassette

[@MichaelPilmer]

Yes, of course!

[@sandhyasaini5452]

i have cassette of old indian songs

[@sandhyasaini5452]

in hindi and punjabi

[@giuseppelavecchia775]

Anch'io sono un super appassionato e maniaco della cassetta,ho una collezione che non finisce mai,possiamo farci concorrenza,ti assicuro che con me sfondi una porta aperta,io sono uno dei più grandi appassionati al mondo della cassetta,credimi,ma comunque anche tu non scherzi,sei grande.ciao.

[@MichaelPilmer]

Thanks for your comment, Giuseppe! Perhaps we can trade tapes via mail? You can find my email address on the CONTACT page at www.devo-obsesso.com.

[@Mopery]

Those poor wall studs😂😂😂

[@gurandittasinghsandhu5238]

ਗਾਇਕ ਰਾਜ ਬਰਾੜ ਦੀ ਕੈਸਟ ਦੇਸੀ ਪੋਪ ਭਾਗ 1 ਦਿਖਾਓ ਜੀ

[@PlayitagainVHS]

Please do a update cassette video.😃👍👍Your due for a new video!!!😃👍👍✌✌✌

[@MichaelPilmer]

You got it! Another peek into my cassette collection will be the next video!

[@PlayitagainVHS]

Awesome my friend.I cant wait!!!👍👍😃😃✌✌Thank you so much.😃❤✌

[@MichaelPilmer]

You asked, I provided...Here's my new video on valuable tapes from my collection! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHXRp5R3YrRqlbs

[@PlayitagainVHS]

@@MichaelPilmer wow, thank you so much my friend.I love ur cassette collection.👍👍😃❤✌✌Thank you so much for sharing with all of us.