I’ve been going through some of my old cassette tapes (some over 30+ years). Much to my surprise, some of them still play. I even have an old mini-system I still use. CD/Tape/AM/FM. It’s a Panasonic. I’ve had it for 20 years or so.
I drive our old Buick around town and it has a cassette player. And just like I didn’t get rid of the Buick, I didn’t get rid of my cassettes. Much to my wife’s dismay.
Hmm - growing up on cassettes, perhaps that is why even with CD’s (or gasp - even music lists on my phone), I still almost always listen to the entire album the way the group wanted me to hear it. Very rarely do I skip over a song - and usually because it has been overplayed on the radio, not because it sucks. (And sometimes they are bad!)