Welcome to our online general store!

Buy a-plenty, as all proceeds benefit the website and the show. Questions about your order, or about our new shopping cart, can be addressed to email orders@thislife.org or call 312/948-4680. Please don't email the website crew, as we don't have access to sales records. Thanks.

CD's

Individual Show CDs. CDs are $13 each, including all shipping. Buy 'em anywhere you see a show listed on the site buy clicking the dollar sign icon. It's as simple as that! Note: We no longer offer shows on cassette.

Show CD Subscriptions

As much as we here at This American Life would love for you to tune in each week, we're realistic. Make it easy on yourself by having the shows delivered to your door. Six months of TAL. For $150 (includes shipping) you’ll receive every new episode we produce for six months. The subscription starts at the date of purchase and excludes reruns. You'll receive a minimum of 13 episodes, each arriving about two weeks after broadcast. Twelve months of TAL. For $275 (includes shipping) you’ll receive every new episode we produce for twelve months. The subscription starts at the date of purchase and excludes reruns. You'll receive a minimum of 25 episodes, each arriving about two weeks after broadcast.

CD Sets

Crimebusters + Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life. ($17, 2 CDs, includes shipping) It's our new double-disc, greatest hits collection, the perfect gift for that friend or loved one who you've been trying to explain This American Life to for years. Classics like Squirrel Cop – the now-infamous story of the rookie cops confounded by a squirrel on the run – are included alongside other favorites: the band assembled entirely from the classified ads, the Greatest Answering Machine Message of all time, debates about Flight Vs. Invisibility, and stories from Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. The ten-story set yields two and a half hours of stories

Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes: The Best of This American Life. ($17, 2 CDs, includes shipping) Included in the more than two hours of material on this double-CD are TAL classics: Jack Hitt's story about Peter Pan, Sarah Vowell on firing a cannon with her dad, David Sedaris getting the drama bug, Dishwasher Pete scamming his way onto Letterman, Sandra Tsing Loh interviewing a rock band about her father, and host Ira Glass talking about being "just friends." It's available now for the first time, directly from our humble office on Navy Pier in Chicago.

Posters

This American Life Tour Poster ($25, includes shipping) Designed by graphic novelist Chris Ware, they're 39 x 19 inches. Printed using offset lithography, the posters are super-beautiful and suitable for framing. We'll mail them in a special heavy tube to prevent damage.

Radio Guide

Radio: An Illustrated Guide ($5, includes shipping) Radio: An Illustrated Guide gives you an inside look at how This American Life is made (for an online preview, see our comic pages). But even better, it's a step-by-step primer on how to make a radio story. The book includes detail on where we find our stories, how to structure a story, how to do an interview, how to hold the microphone, how to edit sound, how to write a script for radio... really everything you'd need to get started making your own radio story. It's 32 black-and-white pages long, with appropriately fancy color covers, and was drawn by cartoonist Jessica Abel and written by Jessica and Ira Glass,