The Art of the Mix Tape

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The art of the mix tape is like one of the main things i'm more isolgic about, because there was such a, you're like handcrafting an object. I mean, ina, sense, it's hard to be too nesalgic about it. You know, people don't realize, people of a certain age don't realize that there was a time when people wou record and play on their boom box to catch a song in the radio so then they could later on. Yes, you would just wait and you would time it. Ye, you would sit by the radio and wait for that s man ni to come around on the ou spotify

While working at his local record store at age 20, Ryan Schreiber dreamt that his scrappy music review webpage might one day grow into an influential music publication. Working out of his parents’ house, he wrote about indie music because he loved it, and recruited like-minded friends to do the same. In 2000, a rhapsodic review of Radiohead’s “Kid A” got huge attention online, and soon Ryan’s site began to attract tens of thousands of users—building a reputation for pointed reviews that could make or break careers. In 2015, Pitchfork joined The New Yorker and Vogue when it was acquired by Condé Nast, one of the most prestigious magazine publishers in the world.

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