cassettes

cassettes

Messages and phone calls still arrive at Tarek’s shop, requesting specific CDs or DVDs; he serves them, shipping items by courier across the country. Photo: TBS

Rewinding time: DVDs, cassettes and a keeper of memories in Sylhet

In Sylhet’s Zindabazar, Tarek Ahmed’s ‘DVD Gallery’ preserves a fading world of physical media. Though demand has dwindled in the age of streaming, loyal customers — especially nostalgic...

This Dhaka music store has something rare and sought after by music lovers, vintage Bob Dylan CDs. Only a few such stores are left in the city for music lovers who still prefer to listen to music on CDs and cassettes and keep such media in their collection. Photo: TBS

Audio stores that live on the sound of nostalgia

People would flock in line to buy cassettes like these in music stores. Photo: Noor-A-Alam

The nostalgia of cassettes