I used to think that music was recorded by many, many tape recorders when the artists were playing their songs. If it was a really popular album, the artist had to do this over and over again because there were not as many tape recorders as tapes.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon