It’s hilarious. I walk outside with a Walkman and somebody always does a double take. “Wait. Is that a Walkman?!” Yeah. Then comes the next question: “Is that actually a cassette?” Like maybe I’ve stuffed an iPhone inside an old plastic shell and I’m running some nostalgia scam. Then: “Can you open it and show me?” So I pop the sucker open. There’s the tape. Real cassette. Little wheels and a plastic shell. And then they usually tell me the same thing: they wish we could go back to Walkmen. Put on music and just LISTEN without all the other crap crawling out of the phone every time you try to hear a song. And yeah, I get it. But tactile, physical music never went away for me. And nobody has to have to wait for it to come back. You can pick up the damn thing right now.