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hatesgod t1_jb49k7z wrote

Stick It In Your Ear and Heavy Heads Records are the ones i frequent. terrible punk & hardcore selection, though.

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AbjectAttrition t1_jb6821k wrote

I try to avoid Stick It In Your Ear because they sell Nazi records and merch, specifically Burzum.

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the_honeyman t1_jb6j5x0 wrote

Do they promote it? Or was it in amongst a collection they took in and is such an obscure niche band that whoever Google'd it to find the genre didn't see the controversy?

Because I'm betting it's the latter.

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AbjectAttrition t1_jb6mxfd wrote

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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TGov t1_jb5btyf wrote

Stick it in your ear has a good selection but prices are all over the place. Do your research. Heavy Head seems a bit more reasonable on new stuff at least but their selection isn't as big.

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the_honeyman t1_jb5epvq wrote

Stick It for old stuff, Heavy Heads for new, Mike's Unique for a lottery ticket.

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hopefulhusband t1_jb6za84 wrote

Mike's is so weird. Sometimes I find nothing, other times I find what I consider gold. Like once I found the American Tail: Fievel Goes West soundtrack and I snatched it for $5. Another time I saw a busted wax, torn covered Folsom Prison Blues for like $40. It's a weird place.

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bgladden1 t1_jb5451m wrote

I believe Relics is having a record swap meet later this month as well.

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Baku7en t1_jb54x6h wrote

Entertainmart.

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7empest7711 t1_jb4w3hr wrote

Stick it in your ear!

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00112358132135 t1_jb56232 wrote

Stick it in YOUR ear!

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nbmft13 t1_jb6ushr wrote

Stick it in MY ear?!

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00112358132135 t1_jb7afg3 wrote

If you want to, yes.

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iMissFrutopia OP t1_jboudr7 wrote

So I’m down for ear play, but I really like swap meet style record finds. Ever since the place off of Glenstone by the rail road tracks left I’m at a loss.

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HiddenGeons t1_jb6egcz wrote

I genuinely miss City Music. Such great deals on records. And incredibly nice people.

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Fun-Chicken-7191 t1_jb7p01o wrote

Danny Phillips sells records and he has the absolute best ever

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AbjectAttrition t1_jb689vm wrote

Stick It In Your Ear is overpriced and I can no longer support a store that sells Nazi records or other merchandise of any kind.

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