Remember the good old days of hitting “record” on your boombox just as Casey Kasem introduced the number-one hit on American Top 40? Yeah, me too. Welcome to the Gen X music experience—a journey that began with mixtapes and has somehow landed us in the age of Spotify algorithms that know us better than our therapists.
Music has always been our thing. We didn’t just listen to it; we lived it. So, let’s take a trip down memory lane (don’t worry, you can queue this article’s playlist on Spotify later) and see how we’ve been curating the soundtrack of life, one awkward technology transition at a time.
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