Anything can happen. You could be so lucky. There are tickets to many sonic environments. Here are essays, personal histories, liner notes, letters, speeches, rants, and results from the massive ten-question interview that was launched in the Audio Alchemy Digest project which brought all of these loose ends into one overloaded pile of papers. And you hold it in your hands now.
Cassettes are best when used as scratch paper, a reusable medium.
With a phonograph record or CD once it's made, that's it. You don't get another chance. Naturally, it sure is a drag to rewind or fast-forward to find that one part. Expensive tape does get caught in expensive tape players. Stuff gets recorded over accidently, or otherwise lost.