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Somebody here is too young to get it. Tapes and records coexisted. CDs replaced both.
they certainly filled separate niches. i mean, imagine having to carry a vinyl-disk-man…
For the long time, tapes were seen as cheap but bad alternative, if you want to really listen to music you needed vinyl. Tapes themselves and players that didn't sound like shit were quite expensive, and even those were breaking all the time, meanwhile everyone has a vinyl player that plays nice and reliable. By the time good consumer tape player came about, it was very quickly followed by a cd player that was the best of both worlds.
Nope tapes and records didn't co-exist, we had record players built into our cars. And you had to be careful with the cheap ones because the speed of the car was directly tied to the speed of the record player. Funny story but that's also how the Charleston was invented