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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I had a two deck tape recorder, so I'd record a whole hour of airplay, listen for songs I wanted that the DJ didn't talk over the intro or outro, and then put those on a second tape. A good day was two good songs played back to back without DJ banter to add to the mix.

To this day if I don't hear Closing Time after What I Got, I feel a weird anxious discomfort, like when you hear We Will Rock You without We Are the Champions. All because of a mix tape I listened to over and over again. Same with Flagpole Sitta and Keep Em Separated.
gpt
I can relate to that second paragraph a ton.

Plus, once you got a real nice mix put together, with that two deck you could do some entrepreneur-ing. Not that I ever did.