From me to USB

A fifteen-year study by a group of universities concluded in 2006 that the best thing in the world is a lovingly hand-compiled mixtape from someone you want to do rude stuff to with your hands.

A fifteen-year study by a group of universities concluded in 2006 that the best thing in the world, objectively and scientifically, is a lovingly hand-compiled mixtape from someone you want to do rude stuff to with your hands. Sadly, by the time this important finding reached the periodicals, everyone had left C60s behind, had a long and complicated affair with CDs and finally run off with MP3s after a very brief fling with those slutty MiniDiscs. Ah, romance is dead after all. And it is starting to smell. Smell of old stir-fry and regret.

Only it's totally not dead at all, because the retro-lotharios of Suck UK have been and gone and done a beautiful USB mixtape. Be still, our beating hard drive. We can now slap all our subtext-heavy indie favourites onto one of these bad boys - a 64MB memory stick done up beautifully in a tearjerkingly authentic faux-tape package, ripe for the scribbling-on - and deposit it by the door of the delicious boy whose fringe makes our knees go weak. The stick holds about an hour's worth of music, the same as a trusty C60.

Yep - putty, meet hands. If only we can locate that Magnetic Fields b-side on here.