Pff, I do too, though I use my cd-player these days, it's broken but still works. But some stuff is still only on tape.
What was your first music machine? Ours was the cheapest, crappiest tape recorder available in communist Hungary, brand name: MK29 (like a fucking plane or something), small as it was it had this takatakataka sound when it was on, so we connected it to an amplifier through an unbelievable radio, and put the tape recorder itself in the box with pillows and blankets so that we didn't hear the motor noise.