Because I Still Have a Bunch Sitting on a Book Shelf Immediately Behind Me Here in the Office and They Still Mostly Play Fine on My Boombox, That's Why.

Matthew Yglesias, who is young and worldly and sophisticated and intelligent and wise, wants to know, as he targets what appears to him to be yet another expression of hipster culture: "Why would anyone buy a tape cassette?"
My answer, spoken without defiance and with genuine curiosity, is in the post title.