Pro wrestling enthusiast and occasional dabbler. Former tape trader. Has been playing in bands since 09, and started backyarding at the same time. Bass and guitar player that can half ass play about a dozen other instruments. Always looking at recipe sites for middle east and north african recipes, and searching for weird and interesting wines and brandys.
Lol, I think I'm vicariously living your tape collecting hobby through archive.org Tape Vaults. I don't have much space for collecting at the moment, so I have a CRT monitor set up in the corner of my desk and I just feed old ripped tapes to it throughout the day for background. It's neat watching taped news broadcasts
I'm so thankful old technology is user serviceable. I have AM radios from the 1920's that work better than new in a lot of cases
One of my favourite collections came from a news station down in new orleans from the early 80s, so i get you! There's something weirdly comforting about old commercials and shows, even though i didn't live through it. Might just be the nostalgia from my parents tape collection, where they would tape over soaps and shows to record public access movies, so you end up with this weird mix of both.