Something younger gens likely will never uderstand.

[werdna]

[Clouds Passing]

1. 😀

[EYESORE 9001]

2. Downloading music, you say?

I can recall a time when I would record music off the radio onto a cassette tape. It wasn’t high fidelity by any stretch of the imagination, but it sufficed until I purchased it on vinyl or cassette.

[Silent Type]

3. +1. Bought the original cassette tape machines when they came out. I had hundreds of albums with one or two good songs.

So, I knew mixtapes were a thing of the future.

[FirstLight]

4. I still have some of my old tapes!

I found them and I didn't even have a tape recorder to play them in lol. So I got one online that was like a little Walkman with a USB cord and I was able to listen to my madonna, bread, George michael, bon jovi, all the good ones LOL. Can you tell him in '80s child?

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. Daughter made a mix-tape for me when she was 16 or 17.

Still have it and play it to this day. Yes I still have a machine that will play it. Some of my experience with new music was because of this cassette. It included the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony. Paid little attention to it until years later
Now I realize she was trying to tell me who she was at the time.

If you have one, take it seriously. It is a labor of Love.

IMO

[msongs]

6. mixtape was music with value that required an attention span longer than 10 seconds. nt

[Elessar Zappa]

7. "Get off my lawn, young whippersnappers!'

Why, when I was growing up, we walked ten miles in the snow to school, uphill both ways!

[electric_blue68]

8. Ohhh, Mixtapes! 🥰 I've made a few...

A friend lent me her brother's nice double cassette machine.

The one I remember most was themed Spring/Summer ________. The songs didn't have to be about those seasons specifically: but to capture the sense things "opening up" Spring-like, and the full "expansiveness" of Summer-time "timeless" feeling!

I taped vinyl, single songs off other tapes, songs off the radio - it took a while. So some transitions weren't that smooth, but I was pretty happy w it, and the others I did.