The night before Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness came out, the band played Live at the Rivera in Chicago and the show was syndicated to a station here in Birmingham, Alabama. I stayed up on a school night and recorded the entire show on my boombox. The next day my sister asked me if I wanted to go buy the album with her. I was hoping she would ask me because I was itching to go and she had wheels to take us. After school we bought the cassettes so we could jam out to them in her glorious 80’s blue mustang on the way to school everyday. I opted for the CD’s but she insisted on the cassettes. Over time, these cassettes got played in my portable cassette player so much from long car rides, mowing grass, or falling asleep to them while playing, all the writing has diminished from them. After a while of saving lunch  money, I bought the cd version of the album. To this day, I cannot find the original holders for the cassettes. But I do have the long box incasement for them that held them before they went to the smaller version.