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• [1] peter from manhatten November 11, 2008 - 11:02AM

  the similar muxtape.com was shut down by the RIAA - how will this site avoid this problem?

  
  
• [2] Elliott from brooklyn November 11, 2008 - 02:15PM

  wow, fiona says she doesn't get mixtapes any more. i still make mix tapes for all my crushes. what better way to express cheesy admiration?

  
  
• [3] maude from east village November 11, 2008 - 02:19PM

  oh! the mixtape!! sigh.

  It's funny because I never got or gave a mixtape to a boy (I'm a girl) but I spent days on tapes, especially the artwork, for girls. And as it turns out I'm gay and a painter! Maybe there's a connection. hm.

  I look at the box of them whenever I clean out everything, and although I never listen to them, I can't bring myself to throw them away.

  
  
• [4] Sarah from Brooklyn, NY November 11, 2008 - 02:21PM

  I stopped talking to a guy I had an ambiguous romantic relationship with when I was 16/17 when I found out he made the same mix tape for me and for another girl that I was friends with; the tape had a lot of sappy Yo La Tengo and Mazzy Star love songs on it.

  
  
• [5] Julie from brooklyn November 11, 2008 - 02:23PM

  The art of mix tapes is quite different from that of a playlist or cd. If you love the mix enough, it wears done, gets scratchy, and will eventually break. At times, a metaphor for the very relationship that forged it.

  
  
• [6] Dan from Kearny, NJ November 11, 2008 - 02:23PM

  An old girlfriend from the early 1970s called me recently....and then sent me a very nice Mix CD of love songs. My wife and I enjoyed it once, then tossed it in the garbage.

  
  
• [7] Harris from NYC-Harlem November 11, 2008 - 02:30PM

  I have thrown out all of my cassette tapes except for the ones I received will I served in the Peace Corps in West Africa 20 years ago. My friends in the States would send me a mixed tape of the latest songs that I would not have had the chance to hear in Africa. And, on the flip side of the tape, my friends (especially the ones who hated to write) would just talk to me and catch me up on the latest news in their world. In fact, one friend went to a party and passed the tape recorder around the room so all of my close friends could shout out to me.

  So, on one mixed tape, I received the latest USA music (Sade, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant, Phoebe Snow...etc) as well as the impromptu the updates from my friends.

  Thanks,

  Harris II

  
  
• [8] jethro from NY, ny November 11, 2008 - 02:35PM

  "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway... I've started to make a tape... in my head... for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done. "

  
  
• [9] Harry Burger from Long Island November 11, 2008 - 02:35PM

  On a technical note, home burned CDs are not as permanent as most people think - some studies show them degrading in as little as 10 years to being unreadable.

  
  
• [10] Bruce from Montclair from Montclair, New Jersey November 11, 2008 - 04:49PM

  Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

  My one brave attempt at a mixed tape was for the blonde cheerleader in my civics class, eighth grade, 1972 -- and way outta my league; Still, it was fun to make, and the last song, "Betcha by Golly, wow," by the Stylistics, is one of those romance songs for the ages.