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Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit? While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit?

While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

TheMarkPike’s Muxtape I have a soft spot for anachronistic technology, and thus felt a deep wave of nostalgia when I first saw all of these “cassettes” getting passed around the Internet today via the new service— Muxtape. It seems like just yesterday that I was trying to hit record on my boombox at the exact moment the DJ announced my favorite songs (e.g. Shoop, Jeremy, Living on the Edge, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Whoomp There It Is, etc.). Muxtape’s minimalism should be applauded… But, in the end, do we want new technology to give us limits and boundaries? Is that what we’ve been asking for? Have the limitless free MP3 blogs and massive iTunes libraries brought us full circle? Muxtape is cute, and I can’t wait to see where we go from here. Conveniently, I have an FM radio show on Thursday from 4-6PM. I think I’ll play people’s Muxtapes for most of the show. Details to follow… Stay tuned! And, yes, that’s me dressed as Elvis for Halloween, circa 1989.

TheMarkPike’s Muxtape

I have a soft spot for anachronistic technology, and thus felt a deep wave of nostalgia when I first saw all of these “cassettes” getting passed around the Internet today via the new service— Muxtape. It seems like just yesterday that I was trying to hit record on my boombox at the exact moment the DJ announced my favorite songs (e.g. Shoop, Jeremy, Living on the Edge, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Whoomp There It Is, etc.).

Muxtape’s minimalism should be applauded…

But, in the end, do we want new technology to give us limits and boundaries? Is that what we’ve been asking for? Have the limitless free MP3 blogs and massive iTunes libraries brought us full circle?

Muxtape is cute, and I can’t wait to see where we go from here.

Conveniently, I have an FM radio show on Thursday from 4-6PM. I think I’ll play people’s Muxtapes for most of the show. Details to follow… Stay tuned!

And, yes, that’s me dressed as Elvis for Halloween, circa 1989.


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