Next in the stack: An 1800-foot 3M/Scotch tape in an unlabeled box. There’s an enclosed song list, though, calling it “Album Assortment,” which says that Side 1 is Pink Floyd’s “Animals,” “New World Record” by the Electric Light Orchestra, and the first four songs from Foreigner’s self-titled album.

Side 2, it says, is “Leftoverture” by Kansas, “Hotel California” by the Eagles, and two singles: “Outlaw Man” (more Eagles) and “We Ain’t Got Nothin’ Yet” by the Blues Magoos.

The list (which has most but not all of the individual track titles) is accurate. For most of the tape there’s no perceptible tape noise at all — that’s what happens when you use high-quality tape and a decent stereo to record an album. However, there’s some slight “muffling” due to high-frequency loss, especially on “New World Record.”

I already had “Animals” and “Leftoverture,” and the other stuff is all available fairly cheap, so I thought I might just toss this and buy the rest, instead of spending my time editing.

But naah. I didn’t edit and save “New World Record” or “Foreigner,” but I went ahead with “Hotel California” — it was such a clean recording it seemed stupid to waste it.

I knew I had “Outlaw Man” on “Desperado,” so that went straight into the bit bucket. Turns out I also already had the Blues Magoos song — that was from one of my own singles. Didn’t catch that initially. I MP3ed it, then realized the duplication and tossed the new copy.

Still haven’t decided whether I want to bother going back to “New World Record” or the fragment of “Foreigner.” I saved the Audacity file, just in case I decide I do.

The tape, though, is finished and discarded.

That leaves thirty-five.