Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: good when it works

I bought this casette deck 1.5 years ago, looking for something that would be decent to last me through grad school. I dub a fair amount of tapes (I buy most of my music on vinyl) for myself and friends, so I wanted something of decent quality. Well, after 1.5 years of moderate use, the record head seems to have quit on me. I'm going to look into fixing it, but I feel that it will be foolish to sink more money into this after it broke in such a short time. For my money I think I'm going to bite the bullet and go with a cd-r component instead.