Were mixtapes better than modern playlists?

As a teenager, my mixtapes were mostly love letters to girls. A digital playlist could never be quite so romantic – or half as embarrassing
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Which is better – the mixtape or the playlist? The mixtape – in the days before it meant a hip-hop artist giving stuff away for free – was the purest product of the cassette age, a lovingly prepared journey through someone’s musical taste. Ultimately, it was the cassette recorder&rs