| You know, I could
go either way with this one. Really, I could. On the one hand, making
a proper mix tape -- one blank cassette on this side, big ol’
pile of LPs, singles, commercially released cassettes, and maybe CDs
on the other -- has that great techno-luddite appeal going for it:
the pure force of labor, the inescapable appeal of serious downtime,
the sexiness of effort. I remember making mix tapes to try
to impress girls a thousand years ago: ah, youth! Best that it’s
gone now. On the other hand, there’s the mix CD, and it is an
entirely different beast, because: A. It’s incredibly easy to make given the right equipment. B. It’s already cheaper than the mix tape ever was. C. It hasn’t got two sides. D-F. CDs, despite their convenience, have no style. CDs, despite their convenience, have got no style at all. CDs, despite their convenience to which even I have not only succumbed but completely capitulated, have got no style whatsoever, and are so lacking in the style department that hardly anybody who makes a mix CD even bothers to try to make the damned thing look even halfway presentable, even though it could probably be done fairly easily: I mean it’s not like it’s hard to make a decent insert for the jewelcase: all you need’s an old National Geographic: but the CD itself, it has got no style, it was born without style, the concept of cool is so completely alien to it that even the lowly, pedestrian, lower-working-class loogie-hawkin’ cassette seems positively Dior by comparison. |
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