This article from September 2019 in Esquire is depressing in many respects, not the least being the dreadful musical taste of the author when he was thirteen. Only one musician he cites as forgotten - KT Tunstall - would ever be missed by me if indeed she is.

But the reason I post this is to inquire if the thesis of the piece seems to have any historical validity or not. I have seldom used my iPods for anything but streaming and listening to the same music downloaded for offline consumption, in other words not as the sole repository for purchased songs. And I have hardly ever been a creator of mixtapes, at least not since the cassette days. So I would not know.

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