I am the Modren Man

Entering the 21st Century, I am. I’ve still got much of my laboriously-recorded high-school music favorites stored on cassette tapes. The Toyota Tacoma’s had a busted CD player for three years now, but the tape deck still works. Two years ago I drove to and from Boomershoot listening to tapes. Last year I found out about “Car Kits” that let you play a portable CD player through your tape deck. This year….

Say hello to the Sansa Clip, 8 gigabytes (!!!!!) of mp3s, playable through that same car kit. Wal-Mart. $50. That’s a deal.
My nephew hooked me up with some ripping software, and I’m grabbing stuff from the “Vocal Trance” channel on (cough) a particular Internet radio station (cough) familiar to RNS readers. I should have all 8 gigs filled by the time I depart Tuesday morning.