Tape trading: fun or work?

["Larry Burnett" <lburnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't the whole idea of tape trading supposed to be fun? Doesn't 
spending thousands of dollars on equipment take the magic out of the 
whole thing?
One reason that I started trading to begin with (aside from getting 
live Zep) was that it's so damned inexpensive. It usually takes less 
than $5 to get a great show that you never heard before. Compare that 
to fining that $150 Tarantura CD, and you've got yourslef a hell of a 
deal.
OK, so I've got middle-of-the-road equipment. Does that mean I have 
to be deprived of trading? Can a high $$ Nak tape deck make that 
shitty copy of the Bath Festival tape sound any better? Can you get 
rid of the stupid assed "Heartbreaker" guy  from LTTE? Probably not.
I guess if one wants to hoard tapes just because he has a Nak, he can 
go ahead and do that, but I can still think he's an asshole.

  
Bless your socks,
Larry
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