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Last Updated: Wednesday, 30-Oct-2002 01:36:16 EST

Tape trading. One of the most beautiful things about the Phish community. You exchange tape lists with someone, pick out a few tapes, make some tapes for them, send them in the mail, and in a few days you have some crispy new Phish tapes of that show with the absolutely sick Mike's Song. Ahh...the sweet karma. But we all know this isn't how it always works. You sometimes get tapes that sound like crap, are taped on the wrong type of tape, are missing a side, and have their labels written on with permanent marker in bad handwriting. Or worse, your tapes don't even show up at all. What went wrong? Did you offend Icculus?

The following pages will try to lay out some general guidelines for tape trading, in hopes that the misunderstandings that often plague tape trades will be minimized. This document is still a work in progress, and I welcome any suggestions that you might have. Please e-mail them to me at mielcarz@netspace.org.

Please note that the following document assumes that the reader already has a few Phish tapes. If you don't have any Phish tapes, check out Paul Hemmer's Guide for Newbies first.

The Art of Tape Trading can be divided into three sections:

  1. Equipment and Tapelist Information
  2. Setting Up the Trade, Making the Tapes, and Mailing The Tapes
  3. Post-Trade Follow-Up and Etiquette
Before you leave, be sure to check out the sources that were used in the creation of this document. It would not exist without them.
© 1998 Dan Mielcarz
"How to Trade Tapes" may not be reproduced without the explicit written permission of Dan Mielcarz. It may not be sold, nor may any work derived from it be sold, even when a license to reproduce has been granted.

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