Sean-E-Sean wrote: 
Here is the evolution of the Mixtape Culture Club for all who are interested: 

1) Straight-up file-sharing would be awesome, but I worry about the legality of it.  A mixtape is legal no matter which way you slice it.
2) I want to have an actual mixtape in my hot little hands every month because this club is for the love of the mixtape (it's a culture, people!) and not for the love of the playlist.
3) I want as many people to participate as possible.  Therefore, if half the people who signed up for this are freaking out about sending out 20 CDs during their host month, I would rather find a different option.
4) I like the gift-swap model, but I would really like to share my mix with more than one person.  This is a club.  I want to discuss and share and discover new music with my friends in the club.
5) The idea to break the mail-out into groups seems to migrate best when considering the possibility of growth in the future.  However, I'm not so certain I would like to be sent 4 CDs a month.  Seriously...I want to be able to savor what I got from someone.  This model is a bit more hard core than I originally wanted.  I don't want to be making a mix every month.  Even if I wanted to, life happens.  Trust me when I say this - it can take me a week or more to make the perfect mix and get it ready for delivery.  I like to take my time.
6)  I feel I can comfortably manage groups broken down into 5 people.  Presently, that means there will be 4 groups.  1 host per group.  I'll ask the first 3 people who contacted me and said they were interested to be co-hosts with me this month.  We will pick our own themes (and that theme can simply be "There is no Theme"), but I'll still leave a list of themes on this thread for anyone who might be stuck and in need of a little inspiration.

In a nutshell, if you join this club, you will be creating a mix of songs, burning it onto 4 CDs (5 if you make one for yourself), and sending it out to 4 addresses once every 5 months.  Please tell me that this is feasible.  You will be getting 1 CD every month filled with great tunes.  That's a pretty good return on investment.

Anyway, how will this go down, you ask? 

1) You will be placed in a mailing group of 5 people (this will be decided by the order in which you all mailed/messaged me). 
2) One person from your group will send out 4 CDs (or rather, 4 copies of the same mix with cover art and liner notes optional).
3) The next month a new host from that same group will send out 4 CDs of his or her mix. 
4) Hosts will rotate within those groups until everyone has had a chance to send out his or her mix to the group.  Once everyone within that group has sent out a mix, we will switch up the groups for a little variety. 

UPDATE:

There are now 5 groups of 5, but thanks to my recent health issues, I did not get a chance to ask someone from the 5th group to co-host this month.  I didn't think it was fair to ask someone to jump on board with just 3 days before Send-Out.  Be mad at me if you will, but I simply decided to send that group of people my mix and start their group off with an official co-host next month.

Okay, it's a deal then ;)

 lunar1963 wrote: 
When I've sent things to Europe before (to your vicinity, actually), it's usually a week to 10 days. It can take that long for something to get from one side of the U.S. to the other sometimes.

 lunar1963 wrote: 

It's OK, we've all waited THIS long....

 Lazy8 wrote: 

 newwavegurly wrote: 

Well, good idea, but I'm in Europe, so are (maybe) some of the others. So that might take a while!

 meower wrote: 
...wha'?...but but...

 rachlan wrote: 

I'm hoping that you're kidding.  really really hoping. 

 meower wrote: 
those are lyrics too?

 Sean-E-Sean wrote: 

it's a conspiracy to get your name and av changed back.... yes. 

 meower wrote: 

...EEEEEE!!!...you are in on it aren't you?!!...EEEEEEE!!!...

 Sean-E-Sean wrote: 
he knows all the lyrics to yes songs?

 Sean-E-Sean wrote: 

wha the hell are you talking about ?

 rachlan wrote: 
..how do you know?!!...ooh it's a conspiracy!...to the yes lyric generator birdman!!...

 Sean-E-Sean wrote: 
i;m worried that anything I do will sound like rp.    good thing we are not in the same group.

...I am going to tape the music I send off of the radio...

 not-a-fish wrote: 

 
And see even Lazy8 agrees.  

 Lazy8 wrote: 

Yup...I'm thinking that's a plan. 

 newwavegurly wrote: 

I'm leaning toward that too. I like the element of surprise!!