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“ … almost every person bemoaned the fact that their beloved tapes had vanished. So many people had talked about the beautiful and wild cassette cover art adorning their tapes. Some, like myself, never did this. It was the simple listing of the artists and the song titles which held the magic.”
-- Thurston Moore, from Mix Tape (The Art of Cassette Culture), edited by Thurston Moore, page 12
@dogtrax I made my own covers most of the time but didn't have anyone to 'geek out' about them (or my song mixes) with. I loved making covers for my mixtapes: doing so was therapy, like making the tapes themselves, making other art, and singing was for me. Those were the days... #nostalgia
@aquadonia I made only a few but I still remember someone at a party, who knew I wrote songs, passing me three mix tapes full of bands I had never heard before. What a gift! It’s hard to do that with a streaming playlist, I think. (I never saw that mix tape maker again, oddly enough. He was a sort of Johnny Appleseed of music)