Pause, Play, Record
It’s become a kind of sport for music-lovers to mourn yet another almost-obsolete technology. For Jocelyn Gonzales it’s the cassette tape. Her old mix tapes can’t be recreated in a playlist on iTunes — they’re a special medium unto themselves.
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