Offline projects · Twin Cities, MN
Three ways into the club, each one a pass you can hang on a lanyard. The apps stay free no matter what. Passes are how you support the club and get in on the in-person stuff.
One-time card · coming soon
Renews · coming soon
Renews · coming soon
Help us build community and better apps!
Passes aren’t open yet. Want a heads-up when they are? Email bc@runawayanchor.com.
The best features are in person. Twin Cities places that make room for analog hobbies, real conversation and nights without a screen. Go say hi, and if you know a place that belongs here, tell BC next time you see him.
Let's be here together.
An analog lifestyle shop with phone-free events: fewer screens, more repair, and real time with people of every generation.
BC's take: A hidden gem in St. Anthony Park for anyone who's lost an evening to doomscrolling. Dig through vinyl, CDs and tapes, plus the boomboxes and Walkmans to play them. Tell Mick we sent ya. Visit Present Company →
New and collectible vinyl: rock, punk and metal, jazz, funk and soul, electronic, and a local bin worth digging through.
BC's take: The best vinyl shop in St. Paul, hands down. We've been many times and always find something amazing at a decent price. Visit Agharta Records →
An independent bookshop with a café and a cozy reading nook. Grab a book and a pastry, then settle in for a while.
BC's take: Worth checking out. It's a short walk from a bunch of great Northeast Minneapolis restaurants, so make a night of it. Visit Inkwell Booksellers →Free · No ads · iPhone & Android
Your own Plex music library on a stereo-style player with a real turn-and-press knob. No Plex? No problem. It also plays music stored right on your device. Cases, ratings, games and a few secrets.
Like to tinker? myStereo Elite adds extras like playing music from your own network share.
Meet myStereo →
Make someone a mixtape. A C60 or a C90, Side A and Side B, a handwritten label, played on a cassette deck that’s all buttons, and sent to a friend.
Meet Flipside →
A catalog for the physical stuff: records, tapes, discs and books. Retro video-store looks, with a fast bulk-entry mode for big shelves.
Founder’s note: BC’s own copy is still called the Book of Rao, the holiest text of the planet Krypton.
Open myShelf →Some are apps, some are things you can hold. Three we're testing right now to help put the phone down.
Bring one record you love. We play a side of each and talk about why.
Bring what you’re done with, leave with something new.
The big one, for Crew members and their plus-ones.
Own Your Media Club grew out of a few years of chasing one feeling: the good one you get with friends around a table, phones forgotten. Here's how we got here.
2023It started with cocktails and mocktails. A few friends and I began mixing drinks, writing menus and hosting nights together. The drinks were good, but the real draw was the room: people talking, laughing and staying late.
ThenNext came the writing. Letters from BC Gordon on Substack, often drafted on a manual typewriter, about friendship, family and the quiet costs of living on our screens.
For 60 days I swapped my iPhone for a flip phone from dumb.co and wrote about it every week. The smartphone still lives in a yellow box most of the day. I got my evenings back, and I noticed how much of my music, movies and books I was renting instead of owning.
NowSo I started building small tools that keep my media mine, like myStereo and myShelf, and keeping a list of local places worth putting the phone down for. Records, typewriters, paper books and face-to-face conversation. That’s the club.
Keep the records, the files, the shelf. Nobody can take back what you own.
These are made for fun and for friends. Nothing here is trying to keep you scrolling.
Play the album, log the shelf, then go find your people.
