Cassette Tape Subscription BoxOwn every tape – not a stream
12 or 24 hand-picked cassettes a month from artists you will recognise. Warm hiss, analog soul, shipping included.
Takes a minute. Nothing is charged until checkout. Billed monthly · cancel anytime.
- Free shipping
- Cancel anytime
- Keep every tape
- Artists you know, no filler
Pick a size. We press play on the rest.
Nothing to configure: 12 or 24 cassettes a month, hand-picked across the whole shoebox, from vintage rock and pop to forgotten soundtracks and rare indie releases. Tick the gift box if it is a present, then sign up.
Finger on record, waiting for the DJ to stop talking
The pencil in the spool. The J-card you wrote the tracklist on in your best handwriting. The Walkman that ate one tape in three and was forgiven every time. Cassettes were never about sound quality. They were about the hands that made them.
This box is a mixtape somebody else made for you: 12 or 24 tapes a month, picked by people who know a true gem from a thrift-store dud. Classics, cult favourites, underground discoveries and quirky oddballs, every one looked over by hand. No filler, no overstock.
Side ALoved Again Mix, Vol. 1
- A stadium record you forgot you loved
- The soundtrack to a film nobody rents
- An indie tape with 300 copies ever made
- Something your older brother played too loud
- The quirky one. There is always a quirky one.
Up to 24 tapes, every month
Artists you know
Vintage rock and pop, forgotten soundtracks, rare indie releases. Names you will recognise, no filler.
Looked over by hand
Clean shells, good cases, intact J-cards. We judge by what we can see.
From $1.67 a tape
A value no streaming service can touch, and every tape is yours to keep.
Free shipping
Included in the price of the box. Cancel anytime from your account.
What a month might look like
Rebuilding the soundtrack of your youth
The albums that lived in the glovebox: '80s pop, '90s rock, the one with the broken case you taped shut.
Hunting hidden gems
A soundtrack nobody remembers, an indie release with a photocopied J-card, a live tape from a tour that never came to your town.
The warm hiss
Tapes that sound like the decade they came from. That is the point, not the problem.
Our bodies are not digital
Press play. Hear the motor. Flip the tape.
Streaming hands you everything and lets you keep nothing. A cassette is the opposite: a small, stubborn object that plays in the car you refuse to sell and the deck you found at a yard sale, and stays yours when the licence deal ends. The hiss is not a flaw. It is the sound of something real.
Start my boxFrequently asked questions
Do I get to keep the cassettes?
Every one. No returns, no due dates, just a growing shoebox of tapes you can play anytime.
Do I pick the titles?
No, and that is the fun of it. We hand-pick a stack of tapes from artists you will recognise: vintage rock and pop, forgotten soundtracks, rare indie releases, the odd quirky one. No filler, no overstock.
Will the tapes play?
We cannot play-test every cassette, so we judge by what we can see: clean shells, good cases, intact J-cards. A thirty-year-old tape may hiss a little; that is the warm part of the format.
What if I get something I already have?
Share the love: pass it on to a friend, a family member or the one person you know who still drives a car with a tape deck.
How much is shipping?
Free within the continental US and already included in the price of your box. No hidden fees.
How long will my box take to get here?
We typically ship within 72 hours. From there, USPS Media Mail takes 2 to 10 business days.
Can I give the box as a gift?
Yes. Tick "this is a gift" when you order; the recipient gets their own account.
I want music on a different format.
The CD Subscription Box lets you pick genres, and the Vinyl Record Subscription Box takes decades and genres. Both ship free.
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Pick your own musicA mixtape with your name on it, every month
From $24.99 a month, shipping included. Cancel anytime, keep every tape.
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