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AbjectAttrition t1_jb6mxfd wrote

Reply to comment by the_honeyman in Does Springfield have any good record shops? by iMissFrutopia

IIRC, Stick It In Your Ear makes lots of their own artist merch shirts. They also had various sizes available, so it isn't just a one-off shirt someone donated. If it was just a single record, I would give them the benefit of the doubt. They had at least two copies of Filosofem when I went there last.

>and is such an obscure band

Burzum is up there with Mayhem for the most popular black metal artists there is.

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the_honeyman t1_jb6xcy6 wrote

Niche is what I was going for anyway, not obscure.

So you're saying there were multiple, new Burzum shirts being sold? Idk how they can get away printing other band's logos on their shirts without licensing fees, which doesn't make sense for a hole in the wall record store.

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[deleted] t1_jbb369d wrote

> Idk how they can get away printing other band's logos on their shirts without licensing fees,

Bootlegging t-shirts is easy and quite prevalent.

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the_honeyman t1_jbb58yb wrote

I guess if they're literally printing their own or ordering them online and reselling.

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[deleted] t1_jbb6kin wrote

>I guess if they're literally printing their own

Yes, that's how bootlegging works.

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the_honeyman t1_jbbaqlx wrote

Hey, thanks.

I was more confused on the how it makes financial sense for a hole in the wall record store to bootleg shirts. Seems like they'd barely sell enough to cover labor, plus there's no room in that place.

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[deleted] t1_jbbb4sl wrote

>I was more confused on the how it makes financial sense for a hole in the wall record store to bootleg shirts.

It's cheap to bootleg shirts. You sell them for more than you paid to have them printed. It's pretty simple.

The store is small but it has had shirts for years so it's not like it's suddenly taking up space. I'm pretty sure they were booting shirts back when Wes owned it.

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the_honeyman t1_jbbjsd8 wrote

Whoa, selling things for more than you bought them more is how you make a profit? Who knew???

Point is, nobody goes there to buy a shirt. I just don't see how they sell enough to cover costs. Obviously they do, if they've been doing it that long.

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[deleted] t1_jbblggu wrote

I don't know why you're getting sassy. You said you didn't understand something and I tried explained it as simple as possible.

Nobody may go there just to buy a shirt but clearly some people are buying shirts there otherwise they wouldn't keep them around.

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AbjectAttrition t1_jb6ylti wrote

The copyright on nearly all the merch Stick It sells is pretty iffy, there are also blatantly fake MF Doom tees being sold. Many other bands too, as well as popular horror movie franchises, all of which are printed on what appeared to be Gildan shirts. Seems to be mostly bootleg because they sell their own shop-branded merch on the same rack and it's the same kind of cheaply printed shirts.

I don't want to continue to support a business who sells Nazi black metal stuff, whether it's real merch or bootleg.

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