Any VHS tapes still on that shelf?

摘要

While the VHS vs. Beta war may be long over, the war against keeping all those movie cassettes out of the world's landfills has only just begun. Until just a few weeks ago, when my wife and I went on our bi-annual Value Village run, in atonement for consumerist whims, there were only a few old VHS movie cassettes still left in the apartment, all collecting dust on the bookshelf as if they were keepsakes for a future time capsule. I don't even remember which films they were, but I'm sure that even if I did have a VHS player, these films, whatever they were, would be chalked full of blips and drags, static and pops.