When I first began this journey and began to read up on cassette manufacturing, the cassette ribbon seemed to flow like ancient Greek wine—seemingly abundant. Wine is still made and consumed in modern day Greece, but does it still have the romanticism connected to it several millennia later? Of course it doesn’t—I mean, it does, just in a different way. That’s not to say that modern wine makers can’t make a decent bottle of wine anymore (not that we know what ancient wine tasted like—it could have tasted like Minotaur piss—which I’m guessing it didn’t). Okay, enough about wine, let’s talk about the cassette ribbon shortage.