Most of the time, Theodor Adorno has noted, records are virtual photographs of their owners. The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music...

Most of the time, Theodor Adorno has noted, records are virtual photographs of their owners. The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how music has informed the author's life.