It's getting worse: my used open-reel tape collection has passed the 1100 mark, a tower of Really Useful Boxes full of them. (Twenty to each 9L XL box - the ones for 7in singles - in case you wondered.) At this rate, eBay ought to erect a statue of me. It was easier to quit smoking. Hell, I also own eight tape decks. So I may need help. As a grown man - no, scratch that... As a fully-paid-up pensioner, I should know better. Trouble is, I am the product of a lifetime of loving music, as my earliest coherent memory is seeing Elvis Presley perform on The Ed Sullivan Show at exactly four-and-a-half years old. Two months later, my mother somehow managed to buy me a Mickey Mouse guitar and family legend has it that I was inseparable from it. Over the years, and I am only now realising it, I absorbed most of this passion from my father, who was not an audiophile but a tape buff. This is why I know how to splice tape with the adroitness of Marco Pierre White filleting a trout. And thank goodness for that: over 900 of the tapes I've acquired arrived with neither leader tape nor tail.
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机译：情况变得越来越糟：我用过的开盘式磁带收藏已经超过1100大关，里面装满了真正有用的盒子。 （如果您想知道的话，每个9L XL盒子要装20个-单人7英寸的盒子。）以这样的速度，eBay应该竖起我的雕像。戒烟比较容易。地狱，我还拥有八个录音带。因此，我可能需要帮助。作为一个成年男子-不，从头开始...作为一个全额退休金领取者，我应该更加了解。麻烦的是，我是一生热爱音乐的产物，因为我最早的记忆是，猫王Elvis Presley在恰好四岁半的时候参加了Ed Edullivan Show的演出。两个月后，我的母亲以某种方式设法给我买了米老鼠的吉他，家族的传奇故事使我与它密不可分。多年来，直到现在我才意识到这一点，我从父亲那里吸收了大部分的热情，父亲不是发烧友，而是磁带迷。这就是为什么我知道如何将Marco Pierre White的技巧巧妙地接缝成条的鳟鱼。并为此谢天谢地：我购买的900多个磁带既没有引导带也没有尾带。
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