I made mixtapes when I was young, not very many, but they meant a lot to me (I still have some of them). As this article makes clear, they didn't kill the music industry (though you'd never know from the caterwauling). In fact, I developed a fondness for music that led me to buy the same song on vinyl, cassette, 8-track, and CD - and now I 'rent' the song on streaming music. But you know - I still record my own 'mixtapes'. My streaming service (Prime, which I pay for) won't allow me to mix concert recordings, my own recordings, and its own officially sanctioned (and incomplete) music library. So as I write this I'm listening to a CBC (which I pay for) video on YouTube Premium (which I pay for) and using Video Download Helper (which I paid for) to make an MP3 so I can put it on my Pixel phone (which I paid for) and listen to Tegan and Sara for free while I'm out bikepacking beyond the range of cell service. But oh! Please tell me how I'm killing the music industry making mixtapes.
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