Whatever happened to a good ol’ fashioned mixtape?

Back in our day, when you wanted to share music with a friend or put your angsty pre-teen emotions into words you could never come up with on your own, you made a mixtape. You’d record songs off the radio or, if you were lucky enough to have a dual deck, you’d copy them right off your albums.

Nowadays kids have things like this Digital Blue Disney Mix Micro MP3, and they just swap SD or MMC cards (which they have to buy separately) loaded with mp3s or WMA content. It’s so…sterile! Where’s the warm hiss of analog? Where’s the slight warping of the tape from time? Where’s the thought and energy you put into making just the right mix of songs?

Gone, that’s where. Kids don’t care. They just swap memory cards if they feel like it and listen to, to, ANYTHING. They don’t even know what’s ON there half the time. We’ve got to start teaching about this in schools!

Yeah, things sure we better back when we were kids. Of course we had to put up with those jokers still clinging to vinyl.

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