Stop The Music?

I'm hoping to resume record reviews, on a limited basis, some time before the year is out.  I hoped I could start now, but there's simply too much stuff going on for me to comment on.

In the meantime, I have a different problem with regard to home audio.  I got a cassette player as a gift a couple of years ago, and it just broke.  It plays tapes at too slow a speed (I play a tape of an Elton John record from the '70s and the vocal sounds like the huskier-sounding '80s Elton!).  Now I have to look into the warranty I got with it to see if I can replace it.  Because I know that I have a slim chance of getting a better cassette player and it's too cheap to have it repaired, I've reverted to replacing my albums on cassette with compact discs.  Except that most of the record stores I used to shop at are gone, the remaining few are Barnes & Noble record departments that have few titles on sale, and I can't turn to online orders for  reasons to random and complicated to explain.  I've had to go to YouTube and listen to albums that I have on cassette online.

I still have LPs on vinyl that I taped.  I guess I can listen to the vinyl records . . . if we only had working speakers to connect to our turntable.

I've never been good with keeping up with planned obsolescence.  After all, most of the records I review are classic-rock LPs, and rock itself is obsolete. 😡