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CDs are $13 each, including shipping. Buy 'em anywhere you see a show listed on the site by clicking the  icon. It's as simple as that!
Order TAL in bulk and save!
- Order five or more individual show CDs and save $.50 per CD
- Order ten or more individual show CDs and save $1 per CD
- Order 20 or more individual show CDs and save $2 per CD
Savings will be automatically deducted from your total order.
Note that this offer is good for individual show CDs only. It's not valid in combination with other merchandise, including the Best of TAL compilations.
Visit the Episode Archives to select and purchase shows.
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If you were not one
of the ten lucky people who won our poster contest at the live event, here's your chance! We've been getting a ton of emails about this one. Full color, fully awesome poster designed by Travis Bone for our Spring 2009 live event and radio show, "Return To The Scene Of The Crime." 3' tall x 2' wide. (Check out pictures of Travis hand-screening the limited edition posters here.)
$25 (includes shipping)
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After we finished the second season of our television show, we thought it would be cool to put together a special DVD set with all of the episodes from seasons One and Two, plus a book that takes you behind the scenes of the TV show. It of course ended up being a ton of work and taking five times as long as we thought, but it turned out pretty great. We made this especially for all of you radio fans who've still never seen the TV show, to answer all your questions and finally get the show into your hands. It has essays about how we turned the radio show into a TV show by (click names to preview) Ira Glass, director Chris Wilcha and cinematographer Adam Beckman, as well as little stories from dozens of people on the production team. But most of the 64 pages are gorgeous photos taken during the two-plus years of filming—photos like this, this and this. An amazing designer named Paul Sahre did the layout.
You can check out more images of the book here and here.
$58 (includes shipping)
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More than a thousand people entered our t-shirt design contest. And Brian Kaas won the top prize with this clever, elegant radio design. 100% cotton, pre-shrunk. FYI: the ladies' sizes run very small.
Please note: Radio t-shirts, television season one DVDs, and 100th anniversary mugs are sent from our fulfillment house, so they'll arrive separately from other items.
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The complete first season of our Emmy-winning television show. We really didn't know what to expect when we ventured into TV. We're pretty proud of this, but you should see it for yourself. Includes all six episodes—"Reality Check," "My Way," "The Cameraman," "Growth Spurt," and "Pandora's Box." Plus, commentary by host Ira Glass and director Chris Wilcha.
Please note: Radio t-shirts, television season one DVDs, and 100th anniversary mugs are sent from our fulfillment house, so they'll arrive separately from other items.
$16.00 (includes shipping)
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The Emmy Award-winning second season of the This American Life television show. Bonus features include an extended episode featuring a story never aired on TV, This American Life - Live! (the stage show we sent to movie theatres in 2008), and commentary by Ira Glass and director Chris Wilcha. We’re particularly proud of the final, hour-long episode “John Smith.”
Please note: Radio t-shirts, television season one DVDs, and 100th anniversary mugs are sent from our fulfillment house, so they'll arrive separately from other items.
$19.00 (includes shipping)
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An anthology featuring some of Ira Glass's favorite nonfiction writers—including TAL contributing editor and New York Times Magazine writer Jack Hitt, Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink), and Susan Orlean (The New Yorker, The Orchid Thief).
Proceeds benefit the writing center 826 Chicago.
Read Ira's introduction to the book.
$15.00 (includes shipping)
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In this live recording, Ira is joined onstage by three amazing writers from his anthology: Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Orlean, and Chuck Klosterman. In a very funny conversation, each writer discusses a passage from the others' work. It turns out Susan spends a shocking amount of time with her interviewees. Malcolm had a story he was sure would be his magnum opus, but no one else saw it that way. Chuck explains how he's able to write so much. And a side by side comparison of Chuck Klosterman and Dante catches everyone off-guard.
$10.00 (includes shipping)
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Full-color, 19" x 39" poster designed by Lilli Carré for our 2007 live tour—"What I Learned from TV.” These were the hit of the merch tables!
$25.00 (includes shipping)
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When we'd been on the air for 10 years, we thought, let's skip that anniversary and go straight to the big one. So here it is: the This American Life 100th anniversary mug. It depicts all the hosts from our first century—including Ira Glass, Sarah Vowell's nephew Owen, and C.C. the Talking Cat (whose reign was brief). Artwork by the immensely talented Divya Srinivasan.
Please note: Radio t-shirts, television season one DVDs, and 100th anniversary mugs are sent from our fulfillment house, so they'll arrive separately from other items.
$16.00 (includes shipping)
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Our brand-new Greatest Hits collection gives us hope for (and not fear of) the holidays!
It's been three years since our last This American Life collection, so it's high time for This American Life: Stories of Hope and Fear. From Jonathan Goldstein and Starlee Kine's standup comedy karaoke aspirations, to David Wilcox's tale of his mother's final gift to his mentally disabled sister, to Sascha Rothchild's alarming teenage diaries, and Julie Snyder's final confrontation with the phone company, this 2-CD set explores our greatest hopes and worst fears. Also contains more stories by David Sedaris, John Hodgman, and others.
$17.00 (includes 2 CDs and shipping)
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It's another 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.
$17.00 (includes 2 CDs and shipping)
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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."
$17.00 (includes 2 CDs and shipping)
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Behold our special three-CD gift packs. Packed in gorgeous sleeves designed by artist Chris Ware, each three-pack is priced at $33 (including shipping). That's a discount of $6 off the regular CD price. These themed collections are a perfect present for a fan of the show, or someone you're trying to introduce to This American Life.
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An introductory pack where every show has a number in the title! Includes these shows:
$33.00 (includes 3 CDs and shipping)
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Includes these shows:
- Classifieds. A show in which every story comes from one Sunday's classified ads.
- The House on Loon Lake. Boys break into an abandoned house and find a world that hasn't been touched for decades. Food is in the pantry. A wallet with money sits on a dresser.
- My Experimental Phase. A guy who lived like a peasant in ninteenth-century Poland jumps forward two centuries and starts watching TV and playing in a glam-punk band.
$33.00 (includes 3 CDs and shipping)
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Includes these shows:
- Christmas and Commerce. David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries," David Rakoff's "Christmas Freud" and more.
- Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones. Sarah Vowell has her family over for Thanksgiving, and Russell Banks with "The Moor."
- Poultry Slam '03. A family's holiday feelings about an imaginary duck, the Chicken Little Opera, the Greatest Crimefighter the World Has Ever Known, and more.
$33.00 (includes 3 CDs and shipping)
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Lost Buildings is a TAL original: the true story of a boy named Tim Samuelson, who became obsessed with old buildings, especially the buildings of Louis Sullivan in Chicago, during the 1960's and 70's when they were being torn down.
A collaboration between Ira Glass and graphic novelist Chris Ware; this previously was available only through pledge drives. Ira did the sound. Chris did hundreds of drawings. The result is a 22-minute story, with sound and images, that has never been heard on the radio. The DVD comes packaged inside a beautiful 100-page book filled with photos of the Louis Sullivan buildings mentioned in the story.
See a sneak preview.
$22.00 (includes US shipping)
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Back in the fall of 2000, This American Life ran a secret decoder contest for listeners, who decoded a string of coded messages played at the end of four programs:Media Fringe, 24 Hours at the Golden Apple, Accidental Documentaries, and The Cruelty of Children. You'll get the four programs that featured the secret messages, plus graphic artist Chris Ware's specially made Amateur Secret Decoder Wheel.
$48.00 (includes 4 CDs, Decoder Wheel, and shipping)
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As much as we here at This American Life would love for you to tune in each week, we know it's easier sometimes just having a CD around to play wherever and whenever you want.
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Six months of TAL. For $150 (includes shipping) you’ll receive a six-month Radio By Mail certificate similar to the one pictured above, and 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.
$150.00 (includes shipping)
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Six Months of TAL – Installment Plan! For $26 a month (includes shipping) get the same great six month subscription service described above. It's like paying for a gym membership that you actually use! The six monthly installments will be automatically charged each month to the credit card of your choice. Note that partial subscriptions are not available. Subscriptions cannot be cancelled once they have started.
$26.00 per month (includes shipping)
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Twelve months of TAL. For $275 (includes shipping) you’ll receive a twelve-month Radio By Mail certificate like the one pictured above, along with 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.
$275.00 (includes shipping)
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Twelve months of TAL – Installment Plan! For $24 a month (includes shipping) get the same great twelve month subscription service described above. It's like a car payment, only much, much cheaper (and better for the environment). The twelve monthly installments will be automatically charged each month to the credit card of your choice. Note that partial subscriptions are not available. Subscriptions cannot be cancelled once they have started.
$24.00 per month (includes shipping)
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(the TAL comic book)
Radio: An Illustrated Guide gives you an inside look at how This American Life is made. 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 ... really everything you'd need to get started. 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.
$5.00 (includes shipping)
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