@athenasgriffin: Yeah, I did that too before I had an ipod adapter for my car. I used to listen to the same mix CD over and over again for months, haha… So much that listening to certain songs still reminds me of driving in a certain location!
@Bellatrix: I make playlists for special occasions too. Like when I have to write 30 pages in 4 days, haha! I wish there was a way to share a playlist with someone easily… Well, there probably is, I’m just not an adept internaut.
@this_velvet_glove: I agree! I usually make mix CDs for someone when I want to share with them some of my favorite songs that I think they’ll like.
@Leanne1986: That’s sweet. Have you carried on the tradition? Do you still make mixes for other people?
@downtide: headdesk Hahaha… What would vinyl be then?
@blueiiznh: Do you make them just for yourself, or for other people?
I wish it weren’t a dying art. I still remember so fondly the first few mix CDs my first girlfriend gave me, and I remember feeling like I had been let into a secret society when a friend of mine who was much older sent me some mix tapes with (at the time) unreleased Nirvana songs on them. (Like one live track of Flea from the Chili Peppers accompanying Smells Like Teen Spirit on the trumpet!) But I feel like, these days, unless someone is going to play the CD in their car, they’re just going to upload it onto their computer, where they can shuffle it or integrate it into their library, so it doesn’t feel like a tangible gift the way a mix tape or CD used to.