mail order Archives - Desperate Living

Remembering the glory days of the DVD-by-mail service.

Looking back at the free discs sent out alongside offers for box sets of music that people didn’t really want but felt compelled to buy anyway.

Remembering the oddball world of underground video production, tape trading and sexploitation splatter movies.

‘Coffee and lifestyle brand’ BEAR want coffee experts who like their drink made with a Nespresso pod.

Mail order salvation, as promised by America’s most delirious fundamentalist publisher.

A 1946 collection of unflattering observations about the female of the species, freshly reissued for modern misanthropes.

The strange era when kids could buy live monkeys through the post via comic book ads.

A ‘too good to be true’ offer – or was it?