With only a bartered acoustic guitar, I used tricks (disconnecting the erase head wires) to layer on standard cassette and create songs. A friend loaned me his cassette 4-track for a weekend and I knocked out 7 tracks.

This was in the 80's.

Now with the luxury of hard disk recording, and essentially a whole studio on my laptop, I instead post to HN. ;-)

What can I say, I'm old and not as moved by the creative passions of youth.

Maybe "creativity finds a way" is another way to put it.