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Did it while on call nights last year - quiet enough to do without waking anyone One £8 12" single from not too long ago is averaging £150 now; and a €13.99 album from two years ago is >100 due to having a special edition third CD. No way I'd recoup what I've spent but there's been some...

What was it recorded live on? I've seen a similar claim for a live album recorded using a Zoom H6, in the same PCM bitstream that CDs use...

There's a vinyl enthusiast in work who spends probably a hundred quid every Friday* and was utterly horrified to find out that my CD player - a mid 90s professional Philips unit - cost more than my turntable - which is fairly new. 3-4x as much in direct terms not even counting for inflation...

Unless its a direct-drive capstan (which a higher end old model probably is tbh) there's still belts that can go wonky; and gummy pinch rollers are the usual cause of eaten tapes not the tape Tape definitely does degrade but rubber belts and rollers go faster! The degredation used there is...

You probably need to do some work on the player. Make sure the pinch roller isn't gummy and replace if it is is, check the belts are still tensioned and non sticky etc. This is what usually degrades badly and quicker, not the tape. New tape players are shit, particularly if you want to play...

Buy the odd album, only stuff I'd listen to end to end (albeit with one or three trips up to change sides/records) still and have a decent amount of 12" singles from when I used to DJ - until about 2006 some stuff I'd want was only released on 12" with possibly a CD of the radio edit. I still...