True Romance: Mixed Tapes

I keep adding songs to my iTunes to make CDs for our wedding guest gift bags, and it occured to me that some people might not even have a CD player anymore. And if they do, they'll probably burn songs they like off our wedding CD into their own iTunes.

I still have a CD player and a decent sized collection of CDs and I've burned a number of songs from those discs onto my iTunes.

I love going back through my dusty boxes of compact discs, looking at the album covers and the artwork and the scratches on ones I played to death.

When I was in college in Boston, I loved walking down to the Virgin Megastore on Newbury Street on weekends and listening to music from artists I'd never heard of while reading the album covers. That's the stuff that we don't see when downloading songs to iTunes. I miss that.

I recently came across a mixed CD that a nice English chap made for me back in my days of dating. Sweet, if not a bit embarrassing for him now, right? And I'm showing my age here, but I still have about 20 or so tapes in the basement including a mixed tape or two that were made for me by young cassanovas.

It was the ultimate compliment to receive a "mixed tape" from someone. I remember listening to the songs over and over to pick out the parts that pertain to me. True Romance in the '80s and '90s.

What do kids do these days now that they can't create heart-felt mixed tapes for girlfriends?