2011 marks the first year — since I’ve been alive, at least — that you can’t buy a new car with a factory-installed cassette tape player. The last model to be sold with one was a 2010 Lexus.Sigh. Makes me wistful for my old Ford Fiesta.
In the post, the dude also waxes about mix tapes:
I have a lot of nostalgic affection for my old cassette mixes, and I miss being able to play them in my car. They were so much more handmade and personal than CD mixes: I worked for hours getting the song order right, fading out of songs at just the right time; they were something you could, in some small way, be proud of. I hope to one day rescue my old mixes and convert them into long-playing MP3s, but I don’t think listening to them digitally will be the same.I've thought the same thing, I'd love to have a website devoted to my old mix tapes, if only I could get them all back!
Was 1996 my "1927 Yankees" year of mix tapes? Interesting. Hmm.
2 comments:
i just found two boxes of my old tapes when i went out to seattle. i brought them back not knowing if my car even had a tape player or not, and it does! thank you 1996 toyota makers!
I think I have a few of your Roberto Johnsente and the like tapes that I digitized. I may have owrn them out on tape form, but they may still be in a box somewhere.
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