Ah, The Mix Tape.

I was reading an article on the AV Club about making a mix tape with songs from cult movies, and was thinking about High Fidelity (the book, not the movie), and got to thinking about the greatest-ever advance in recording technology:

The fact that cassette tape degrades over time, and will eventually remove all evidence of our humiliating early endeavors in creating the soundtracks of our love.

Oy.

Now we'll just have to see how long CDs actually hold up...