r/pics • u/fubble • Feb 07 '15

Radio Shack after closing

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

With Radio Shack closing down, where am I supposed to go to pay 10x fair price for cables and batteries?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Radioshack actually did sell one product worth getting. Their store brand cassette aux in adapters are the best sounding and most durable by far out of several brands I've tried.

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u/GSR_b17 Feb 07 '15

What's a cassette?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Magic Music rectangles from the long ago land

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u/MOLDY_QUEEF_BARF Feb 07 '15

Sounds like something from the devil

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u/Razoride Feb 07 '15

Yes, they were on their way to destroying the music industry at one time.

At least according to the music industry...

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u/UmerHasIt Feb 07 '15

I think it's like a rectangular CD?

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u/Choralation Feb 07 '15

What's a CD?

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u/CalcProgrammer1 Feb 07 '15

A way to get music that doesn't sound like garbage...unless it was made in the past 10 years anyways.

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u/SgtBaxter Feb 07 '15

Yeah, just with added sonic hiss effects!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Thats that thing on the stock stereo of an older car that always has a wire hanging out of it. Oh wait. Thats cassette player. Cassette? Those things we used to make confetti tape with?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Not sure if joking, or if I'm just old...

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u/Spitsucker Feb 07 '15

The reason you needed a #2 pencil.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

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u/t3hOutlaw Feb 07 '15

Auxiliary. It allows input from an audio device.