There was something about making mixed tapes where I would even put thought into the title I made for it after I wrote the song list on the sleeve that was somewhat lost with CD-RWs. I didn’t miss the unraveling and heat sensitivity when a cassette was left in a hot car and the sound quality of taped typically wasn’t anything to write home about, but I still enjoyed them until cd stores starting popping up in every mall. It feels like tapes went away much more long ago than they actually did. They really are associated with a general cultural era for me when everything somehow seemed much more innocent and generally optimistic than today (even if the pandemic hadn’t hit the world).