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mix tapes (and the follow-on mix CDs that became popular with folk once CD-R media got cheap and CD-R drives got ubiquitous) were artifacts of a beautiful culture of citizen curators, rarely paid directly for their (usually statutorily prohibited!) curation, yet creating an entire market for (also illicit) distribution and marketing folk that definitely can be tracked to increased record sales for the artists included on the mixes.

I think about things like this pretty often and yet still not often enough.

capitalism ruins everything around me, and it has ever been thus.