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Tom Porter, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 4:46 pm UTC

This man definitely has the boxset on pre-order... © Philip Gould/CORBIS
Beck is another cassette convert: he's covered Sonic Youth's EVOL album in its entirety, on cassette, for an upcoming boxset. Nowadays merch tables at gigs are groaning with cassettes. Underground noise and not-so-noisy bands such as Emeralds are shunning the seven-inch and even underground mainstay the CD-R, instead prefering to flog ultra-limited runs of C-20s.
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