The Onion | I Have An iPod–In My Mind: “I hear those little things carry up to a month’s worth of music. Well, so does my mind.”

You have to love The Onion.

And of course, your mind doesn’t compress the song’s data, it chucks it into a soup of other audio viruses, keeping only the most virulent strains of the chorus or lyrics, all cross-referenced with smells, significant others, time of year, time of life…