We came up loading iPods after school. LimeWire downloads, DatPiff zips, refreshing the blogs every afternoon to see what leaked. Building the perfect playlist was the whole hobby, and you earned your taste one questionable download at a time. The songs you kept said something about you.

Pass the Aux is 89 of those songs, pulled from five artists we've followed for years. Loosies, leaks, mixtape cuts, the ones that live a layer beneath the hits. A few have reached streaming since. Most haven't. Either way, every track here is one we'd actually put on for you. Press play, take the ones you love, come back when you want more.