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10 Music USB Flash Drive Albums That Look Like Real Cassette Tapes

Now that CD sales are slowly declining, artists are either releasing in savvy vinyl records or in USB music flash drives.  What’s awesome about USB Music flash drives is that you can customize them in almost any way you want! And if you’re a musician, you’d want a design that screams MUSIC. What better way […]

Redditors on Why They Love Cassette Tapes

Everyone knows vinyl records are back but why do we see so many cassette tapes lately? We’ve had numerous orders for cassette tape duplication  last year and the orders and inquiries continue to rise this year. If you’re like the rest of the people on the planet, you might be wondering WHY. Why are people still […]

Band Merch statistics- How you can use data to choose what merch to sell

If you want to sell merch, it’s not enough that you make wonderful designs, you gotta know some basic band merch statistics! Merchandise has been a great help to numerous people from different fields of business, but most especially the music industry. With music streaming becoming the norm of today’s generation, musicians’ revenue for physical […]

10 Reasons Custom Cassette Tapes Instantly Make Your Band Cooler

You’ve probably seen top bands releasing cassette tapes in recent years. Don’t worry, you haven’t been in a Bill & Ted time machine back to…well, when Bill & Ted was a relevant reference. Yes, it’s the year 2021 and yes, people are listening to cassette tapes! In a sea of throwaway digital music and crappy […]

12 Reasons You Should Still Release Physical Albums Even if There’s Spotify

You might be wondering if releasing a physical version of your album would be a successful one. You’re not the only one though. Many people from the music industry do, especially during this age of digital streaming. Digital streaming has been taking over music sales since 2005 and it surpassed physical sales last 2015 and […]

Will digital audio ever sound as good as analog?

Some people wonder why we still offer custom cassette tape duplication in 2020 and our answer is simple: many people still love the analog format. There has always been a never ending debate about which sounded better between the analog audio and the digital audio. The emergence of CDs, which are the first popular audio […]

15 of the Prettiest Vinyl, Cassette, and CD Bundles

We love analog (and CDs) and we love well executed designs so whenever we see bundles of merch, cassette, and CD, our hearts pound a little faster and we feel immense joy knowing that music and design are still alive and well. Here, we share to you some of the coolest custom vinyl records, custom […]

How to create your own personalized custom cassette mixtape!

In case you didn’t know, vinyl record sales surpassed CDs last year.  I know we’ve been bragging about this like we’re the ones to blame for the vinyl comeback (ahem, ahem…partly true!) but it’s really because we just love the good ole vinyl record format! I mean…could you believe it that analog is still thriving […]

Cassette Tapes with the Coolest Packaging

Cassette tapes are cool again but what makes the current releases totally worth it are the awesome custom cassette tape packaging. Gone are the days where cassette tapes were just considered a music format. Now, it’s not enough that it contains music because hello! We already have iTunes for that. Cassette tapes should be worth […]

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6 Simple Steps to Create a Custom Cassette Mixtape

A custom cassette mixtape can be whatever you want it to be A new limited-run album or EP, a live album, your remixes of Barry Manilow songs…if that’s what you’re into. More and more bands and artists are releasing on cassettes again. The format doubled in popularity last year. If you’re not involved, you’re missing […]