I know. I'm destroying the very industry I want to work in someday. But welcome to what David Gallagher calls the golden age of the mix CD and the golden age of copyright infringement.
But he continues to say that “there’s nothing quite like the feeling of getting a package and knowing that someone out there took the time to make this.” And because tastes are so idiosyncratic, each mix is a “carefully crafted window into a person.” I certainly think so. It is ultimately the fruit of someone’s labor and time – a gift. Even if most of the music is not to my taste, I have never thrown away a mix that was given to me.
Anyway, I've said this before, but I'm all about Rob Sheffield and his thoughts on mixtapes. There are numerous kinds of mixtapes for every conceivable occasion, and there is always a reason to create one. The technology might change – as we go from cassettes to CDs to flash drives and back again– but “it’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.”
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