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Think of how crazy things are right now. With Spotify or Apple Music you can just make lists of all the music you want and record the output. You could do this with terrestrial radio(I did!) but you couldn't control what was played so it was quite different. The only thing stopping people from having every song they ever wanted for $10 is laziness.

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Some DJs also get instructed to talk over the beginning and ends of songs to avoid people doing this. I remember being annoyed in the 90s that DJs would never STFU when the song started, but learned later that it was at the request of the cartels.

Hopefully this practice died when the Internet and death of cassette tapes killed off radio mixtapes.

Wow, do you have a source for that? Always irritated too, but I never considered there might be a reason for it other than incompetence.

Only hearsay sadly.

Or they could download from one of the many, many torrent sites? Both are about equally illegal, I think, though torrenting should net you a higher-quality copy, maybe even FLAC.

One is easier and carries no risk.

This is much more inconvenient than just pirating the music, and if you plan on subscribing to a streaming service long-term, there isn't any point in doing this since you'll just have access to the song through the paid service (and most services let you cache songs on mobile devices to avoid running out of data)

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