"Most of the time," Theodore Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape is a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 Recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how the vinyl LP has shaped and informed the author's life.
"Most of the time," Theodore Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape is a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 Recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how the vinyl LP has shaped and informed the author's life.