It has been sitting right beside me, at my bedside table, ever since I came back home. I don't use it often, but I use it sometimes, and I think in recent years I have used it more often -- late at night, when there's nothing on TV and I want something to listen to while I'm surfing the Internet, usually jazz, sometimes sports, sometimes The Current. I use the CD player around Christmastime to listen to A Charlie Brown Christmas or whenever I get around to buying a CD.
I haven't used the tape player function. Man, this radio is so old it has a tape player! But that shows how well it still works after, what, just about three decades of use. But unfortunately, it is showing signs of aging. The radio part works fine. But maybe a couple years ago (maybe a few), while I was listening to the radio, the compact disc cradle popped open all its own. I pushed the button to retract it, and it did retract, but I could still hear the whirring sound, and the cradle popped back out. I hit the button a second time, and this time it stuck, but on occasion it would pop back out, and it would take two and sometimes three tries before it would close. Also around this time, the CD stopped working. I would put in, say, my U2 CD and push play, but it wouldn't play. Finally, on a couple occasions last week, hitting the button didn't work. I had to physically shove the cradle back in, and even then it would pop back out a couple times before me shoving it in stuck.
The last time it got so bad that I've refrained from turning on the radio at all. If I do, the CD cradle could pop out, and I would have to go through all that crap again. Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world, since I just use the radio function now. But that is a sign that it's breaking down, and I'm not sure how long I want to deal with it anymore.
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