I carried on using my walkman way into the 2000s
Only gave up when all my tapes were nicked, along with the car they were in, in about 2004. I'd spent twenty years carefully writing all the track names on the backs of the inlay cards (they were mostly pirated, from back when that sort of thing wasn't viewed as a worse crime than genocide,) and to be honest their loss was sadder than that of the car, which was a rusting heap of shit.

Now all my music lives on a couple of hard drives, and having to actually rewind music before I can listen to it again seems absurd. I do miss the physicality of tapes though - the satisfying clunk clack of sliding them into the machine and pushing the cover closed, and the ability to fix them, using common household items, when they occasionally went wrong.

I threw out all my old VHS tapes last year as well. That was a sad day.
( Zoroastermouse thinks therefore he am, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:48, Reply)