Peter Quill is my age in real life. If I had that mixtape, I would listen to it all the time.
When I was a kid, my favorite music was old school metal. Like MC5 or Zappa. The fun stuff is what's on Peter's mix tape.
Mix tapes used to be a thing and we traded them.
They were usually taped off the radio. It took work. Sometimes, we'd re-mix them and record our own voices like a DJ that wasn't an ass who talked over the intro and outro. If you had a two deck boom box you'd always dub tapes. I had a nice 2 deck tape deck. Aiwa. It had soft open and high speed dubbing. You could turn of Dolby so you don't lose the high end when you record. I always used High Metal TDK tapes. They were better than CD because you didn't lose the base. Yes you get some tape hiss but it wasn't bad and it wasn't over-bright like CDs.
Peter Quill's taste in music is exactly like mine. It's my parent's music. It's the music that my mother danced to back in the day. The music is perfect. I've got my own music that I like that my folks don't like. Still, I love Led Zeppelin. My dad was a Zeppelin fan back in the day. When I was a kid and I was sick, he used to dance around with me to calm me down playing Led Zeppelin IV. It always made me feel better.
The music is perfect for a person of my age. Same age as the character and the actor.
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