I used to belong to a website where people would create CDs of music and exchange them with each other. It was a huge amount of fun for a couple of reasons. Obviously receiving new music to listen to was always awesome!
But some of the most fun was putting the CDs together. Instead of just saying, "Fill a CD with music and send it to so-and-so, you'd get a list of descriptions and you'd have to find a song in your collection to fit them. (Usually there were 20 or more to pick from, and you only had to use 15 so it's not as hard as it sounds.)
The descriptions would be like these...
A song that starts with a G
A song from your favorite movie
A song that reminds you of a special person
An instrumental
A song for driving off a cliff in the rain
A song that don't want your friends to know you like
A song with the word "boy" in the title
A cover song
A song from a band where half or more of the members are dead
A song you love to sing out loud in the car
A song that makes you want to dance
A song that makes you cry
A song both you and your dad love
A song with more than 5 words in the title
And so on.
I always pay for my digital music, and if after listening to each new CD there were songs I wanted to keep in my collection, I would buy my own copy. I'm pretty anal that way.
Eventually the site stopped the CD exchanges because they were concerned about liability, and if they would get in trouble. People argued that it's always been okay to send mixtapes to people, and that each artist gets more exposure that way. To be honest, I don't really understand the legality of it.
I know the since then, iTunes has changed the way they license music purchased there, so that you are allowed to make more copies of each song to share. And, like I said, I'm pretty anal about owning music. I don't download stuff illegally. Other than that, it's all Greek to me.
Does anyone know of any sites that still do this?
But some of the most fun was putting the CDs together. Instead of just saying, "Fill a CD with music and send it to so-and-so, you'd get a list of descriptions and you'd have to find a song in your collection to fit them. (Usually there were 20 or more to pick from, and you only had to use 15 so it's not as hard as it sounds.)
The descriptions would be like these...
A song that starts with a G
A song from your favorite movie
A song that reminds you of a special person
An instrumental
A song for driving off a cliff in the rain
A song that don't want your friends to know you like
A song with the word "boy" in the title
A cover song
A song from a band where half or more of the members are dead
A song you love to sing out loud in the car
A song that makes you want to dance
A song that makes you cry
A song both you and your dad love
A song with more than 5 words in the title
And so on.
I always pay for my digital music, and if after listening to each new CD there were songs I wanted to keep in my collection, I would buy my own copy. I'm pretty anal that way.
Eventually the site stopped the CD exchanges because they were concerned about liability, and if they would get in trouble. People argued that it's always been okay to send mixtapes to people, and that each artist gets more exposure that way. To be honest, I don't really understand the legality of it.
I know the since then, iTunes has changed the way they license music purchased there, so that you are allowed to make more copies of each song to share. And, like I said, I'm pretty anal about owning music. I don't download stuff illegally. Other than that, it's all Greek to me.
Does anyone know of any sites that still do this?
