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$5 gets you a gadget that will stream music from a headphone jack into a tape player in a car. I had one for my last car; it worked great. Or are these folks so poor they don't even have a smart phone? "Free with plan" Android phones can easily play tons of music. Yes they fill up, but many do have an SD card option.
Or you can spend $15 on an MP3 player (or pick one up at a thrift store for less). Considering tapes cost more than digital tracks, you'd save enough by buying digital to pay for the MP3 player and the cassette adapter by just forgoing a couple of tapes.
As to "cost effective": Blank tapes cost way more than blank CD-Rs. A quick search finds 30 name-brand discs for six bucks [0], and I've seen them less than $0.01 each in bulk. [0b] Tapes cost nearly a dollar each.
Almost everyone, in college or otherwise, needs to have a computer, or has access to one (libraries!), and most inexpensive computers have CD-Rs. If you don't have a CD burner in your computer, one costs less than a decent cassette recorder. $11.99 on Amazon will get you one, in fact. [1]
And it will be faster to make copies onto CDs, and the copies will be strictly better, than using tape.
Tapes are simply a retro "style" thing. They're not cheaper, and they suck. Trying to justify them in any way just doesn't work.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Branded-Recordable-30-Disc-9...
[0b] https://www.amazon.com/Smartbuy-700mb-80min-Recordable-1000-...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-XuBlack-External-Supports-Co...