The blank side
When punk culture and the music industry went to war over blank tapes
By 1981, the music industry was in a panic about the cassette tape.
The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) had launched its “Home Taping Is Killing Music” campaign, complete with a skull-and-crossbones made from a cassette.
Recording music at home was being framed as theft, and the messaging was everywhere.
The campaign was officially launched by then-chairman Chris Wright on 28 October 1981 and the logo was printed everywhere from T-shirts to record sleeves.
