I had totally forgotten about these guys @enoch! A buddy of mine was a DJ at an independent radio station when I was in High School and would make me some of the best mix tapes ever, and this song was on one of them. Holy hell, brought back a lot of memories of flipping through milk crates full of vinyl.

The lyrics are amazing, and it seems very fitting for the times we are currently living, so I need to *promote this one for sure!!

I was totally into making mixed tapes. Made my own cover art too.

In the real world, I can make a copy of a car from the tires up, and then drive it. I can copy a poem from my favorite collection and send it to my wife on our anniversary. I can write down a phrase from my favorite author's work, and put it in my wallet for inspiration. I still have my old mix tapes from the eighties and the Christmas specials I used to tape on TV. Nobody seems to want them.

A computer is simply a tool. If I try to paint my own copy of my favorite painting, I can do it. If I try really hard and practice for a long time, I might even get something that's practically identical. And I can use many tools to do it. I can take a photo of the other painting and put it out on a grid, and I can use lines or even a laser level to make sure my copy is exact. But at what point am I not allowed to use a certain tool to make the copy for my enjoyment. Where exactly is the line? Why can't I use a device like a printer to make my copy? At what point does my copy become illegal? I demand to know where that exact line is.

Digital information seems to be best represented by George Carlin's crumb paradox: if I split a crumb in half, I don't have two half-crumbs. I have two crumbs. In the same way, why does digital information, when I copy it, become two originals? At what point does all this craziness stop?

If you are downloading it (I assume mp3), is there really a distinction between 'EP' and 'Mix Tape' ?

http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Tragically_Hip:Coffee_Girl

It's hard to leave your bed
The cool and hard summer sheets
Hangover hanging on by the fangs
Walk to work on wild feet
Get to the back door
Look around and turn the key
Turn on all the lights
Take down the chairs and make things neat

Hey, there, Coffee Girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

Your favourite mixed tape
You popped it into the deck
Don't care it's out of date
Old Cat Power and classic Beck
Beware Purveyors of Cool
With their compacts of one
Taking cannons to fools
When all you need's a BB gun

Hey there, Coffee Girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

One night he'll make you choose
I am sorry but he will
The hardscape or your shoes
When the moon's behind the hill

Hey there, Coffee Girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

Hey there, Coffee Girl
Hey there, Coffee Girl
Hey there, Coffee Girl
Hey there, Coffee Girl

I bet she'd have great difficulty filling all the time on a mix tape. =)

This song was on a mix tape I made in college.

I was rooming with three Daves my Senior Year.

The song was a big hit with us. Not sure what everyone else thought, though.

Dave Gort has got to be one of the best names ever.

Just one of the most beautiful songs ever. So short that the first time I heard it on a mix tape, I thought my friend hadn't recorded all of it.

Just one of the most beautiful songs ever. So short that the first time I heard it on a mix tape, I thought my friend hadn't recorded all of it.

My cousin put this whole sound byte in the middle of a mix tape he made for me. I died laughing

I apologize for the plethora of movie scenes that I have submitted right out of the box. I just recently did a "movie scene mix tape" on my blog (see here) based on a similar list I saw at Pajiba, and so I been searching for a lot of movie clips lately.

The song is "East Hastings" by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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LOL at the all Rush mix tape. I think I've got something like that around somewhere.