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'80s fashion, home taping and cassette culture
Tom Porter, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 4:46 pm UTC

Home Taping is still killing music
This was the British Phonographic Industry's (BPI) slogan for its anti-copyright campaign of the 1980s. The BPI feared that the rise of recordable tape devices - stealing from the radio and the labour of love that was the mixtape - would affect record sales. The campaign's been parodied ever since.
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