Payton on Sirius
Houston, I found a cool app last week when i wanted to get some songs off of a cassette tape - MP3 My MP3 -
http://www.freewarepro.com/showFile.php?FileID=57
it's free and you can make an mp3 out of any audio you run into your computer. I just plugged my cassette deck into the line-in on my computer and it was really easy to use.
edit - oh, and thanks for filling in that blank about the blitz pick up.