Welcome to the Rue Defense Tape Club
We're launching in July 2025, but for now, you can read this to get familiar!
Howdy! We’re excited you discovered us!
Here’s the elevator pitch: Rue Defense Tape Club is a subscription-based, compilation cassette club. For a small monthly fee, you’ll get a compilation cassette delivered to your door 4 times per year (or more, if we can figure out a way to make that possible).
For more about our mission, check out our About Page.
Subscription Tiers and Benefits
We’re gonna write all this out below in bullet points, but here’s a quick guide to the subscription tiers (please keep in mind, everything will be launching July 2025):
Free Tier - For $0/mo you get:
A newsletter every other week
The J-Card Podcast, with ads, that’ll also be available across various podcast platforms
Transcribed podcast snippets
Paid Tier - For $5/mo (or $50/year) you get:
A newsletter every other week
Access to an ad-free feed of The J-Card Podcast, as well as access to full “mixtapes” from guests of the show
Transcribed podcast snippets
At least one compilation cassette per quarter (as of now, Sept ‘25, Dec ‘25, Mar ‘26, June ‘26)
Occasional photo prints, written work, etc, as it comes up (open to ideas/thoughts)
Founding Member Tier - For anything more than $50/year (name your price):
All the benefits of the Paid tier, but we’ll also give whatever project you’re working on a spot on our homepage. And we’ll also happily work with you to try and feature some of your work!
One of our core tenets is to pour all subscription fees back into the Tape Club. That means the more paid subscribers we have, the more stuff we can do (more tapes, prints, merch, and whatever ideas the subscribers want to pitch us). We don’t have any intention of raising the base price ($5/mo). And of course, we also love our Free subscribers!
Launch Plans
We’re looking to launch on July 1, 2025, with the first cassettes going out September 1, 2025.
For now, a very important caveat, this club is limited to United States residents only — we don’t know how to handle international shipping yet, but maybe one day we’ll find a partner to help with that.
If you’re a musician who wants to submit a track for the inaugural cassette, you can do so by clicking the button below (it takes you to a Submission Form). If you know a musician who should submit, forward them that link.
Thanks so much for reading! We’ve never done something like this before, but are super excited to build this thing together with you!
If you have any ideas, you can always contact us: hi@tapeclub.biz