Nobody makes mixtapes anymore. Not real ones. Not the kind where you sat on the floor next to the stereo with your finger hovering over the record button, waiting for the DJ to stop talking so you could catch the first note clean. Not the kind where the track order was the whole message. Not the kind where you wrote the song titles on the little paper insert in your best handwriting because the person you were giving it to was going to read every word. You did not make a mixtape for someone you sort of liked. You made one for someone you were paying attention to. Our very first post on our FIRST Instagram account (which no longer exists because it got hacked and held ransom in Feb 2022, and we had to start over. Don't worry! We didn't drink over it. But we might still have a tiny resentmen...
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