School teacher Anthony Thorn spends his downtime shipping music around the world.

The Covington native is the force behind an alternative press label with a flair for eccentric releases, helping both local and international artists produce and sell physical copies of their creations.

And he's doing it the old fashioned way.

More tonight in the weekly Arts and Culture segment we call Tapestry.

Since being that 1213 year old kid, I've always loved cassette tapes.

I think that they are.

They're modular.

They're adorable.

But all those silly reasons aside, they're accessible.

It's accessible media.

It's accessible for artists in a way that getting a vinyl record pressed is not necessarily accessible.

It costs a ton of money.

There's something about that that's just as valid and say to a cassette tape, which is not only way more affordable, but you can put this together in your own house.

Fantasy Audio magazine has music coming out every single month.

We make cassette tapes of cult music, whether it's music for, say, a Dungeons and Dragons kind of role playing game or somebodies keyboard music that is a little too sillier strange to release sensibly elsewhere.

I try to bring it into the physical realm, put on the physical media something that is harder and harder to come by these days.

Everything goes straight from either the original source from another tape deck that I'd put over here and run through some processing, or from just my little laptop here.

It gets processed a bit.

I do a light mastering for the natural sound of the cassette because I like to boost a little bit of the high end, maybe do a little bit with the bass.

Not a whole lot of remixing with other people's music.

None of that at all.

But I want it to sound as good as possible from the cassette tape and record them all myself and I print everything myself and I sit with a ruler and a razor and I've gotten pretty good over the years at cutting everything out and scoring them by hand so the full doesn't look all crappy.

I like to think that these things are pretty, pretty flashy by now.

I was just last night speaking with some friends and my fiancee about how common everything is in a streaming capacity and that it exists somewhere in some cloud, whether it's music or a movie that you love or whatever, whatever.

But all it takes is for those companies to lose their license to a work, and all of a sudden you don't have the Wicker Man anymore, or you don't have all those albums that you loved anymore because you never did.

It was more of a promissory thing.

You just had access to streaming rights, and as soon as they lose their rights, you lose your inventory, too.

There needs to be physical media.

There needs to be an avenue for people to feel like their art and their music matters.

It's very discouraging, and I know that there are a lot of people out there who who would agree to work in your little studio or your bedroom or wherever on music that you are excited about.

12 Listens in a year.

There's sort of just this void that you offer yourself to, and you don't always get a lot of stuff back.

Knowing that I am a part of being something out there that responds, that enjoys, that listens, that four words, that's what I want.

That's what I want to be.

The print side of Fantasy Audio magazine features everything from tabletop games to poetry and interviews.

Its latest project is a sci fi themed set that is currently on Kickstarter.