Via Deadline Hollywood Daily, Hollywood blogger Brian offers this music mix to support the WGA strike. Of course, if you do support the strike, you’ll be buying the songs (Brian’s blog has Amazon links to each song), not borrowing them or burning them to CDs, which you then distribute to your like-minded friends.

Speaking of mixed tapes, Jill McCorkle did it beautifully in Final Vinyl Days in 1998, a couple of years before High Fidelity memorialized mixed tape culture for the movie-going masses. But Nick Hornby’s novel, on which the movie was based, came out in 1995.