Cassettes weren't very good quality, but they were useful.
I cannot imagine my youth without mix tapes, loads of music in the car, and the ability to use a waterproof walkman when sailing / windsurfing. Or listening to them at night with headphones when my parents would have heard me getting up to change records.
How else would we have listened to the Top 20 at school?
But surely nobody thinks the sound was better quality? Or can have forgotten the delight of trying to fish several feet of tape out of the wheels of a cassette player and rewind it with a pencil?
Digital media, first on disc and then with mp3 players may not have replaced LPs, but they certainly did for cassettes.
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