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Being a big Darkglass fan, not wanting to put their stickers all over my precious 'wicks, but still wanting to share the love, I looked at their merch section of their website and they have some really cool graphic art shirts. IMO they are actually quite appealing and interesting.
Then, looking for a carry case for my new VT bass amp, I looked on the Tech 21 website... all their shirts are just their logo in plain writing, no designs, just plain.
I am also trying to find out if I can get a special set of warwick plugs made with the "W" logo (for those who don't know what they are, basically large round earrings for people with stretched ear lobe peircings) and I also noticed my dealer has a black denim vest with "W" on the the metal buttons. Really cool in my opinion.
It made me wonder, I don't see many people chosing to wear brand merch/shirts unless they are endorsed, or a dealer, and they have to... and only the endorsing artists/dealers seem to get the really cool options for repping the brand and the public are left with boring plain logo shirts most of the time.
So my question is, personally do you have an interest in band merch, why or why not
if no,
Is it because the designs are more often than not just plain brand logo's with no nice art/designs?
Is it because you do not want to wear a brand name of gear they like at all, even if it is subltle or creatively incorporated?
Don't want to waste money on it?
It suprises me brands don't put more effort into their merchandise to make people actually want to buy it and promote their brand more, offline, in the real world and off stage..... imagine the promotion a person walking around wearing your brand at a gig/event could give you, even if they themself are not onstage playing the gear they are usually in proximity of other musicians.
I dunno, food for thought I guess
Then, looking for a carry case for my new VT bass amp, I looked on the Tech 21 website... all their shirts are just their logo in plain writing, no designs, just plain.
I am also trying to find out if I can get a special set of warwick plugs made with the "W" logo (for those who don't know what they are, basically large round earrings for people with stretched ear lobe peircings) and I also noticed my dealer has a black denim vest with "W" on the the metal buttons. Really cool in my opinion.
It made me wonder, I don't see many people chosing to wear brand merch/shirts unless they are endorsed, or a dealer, and they have to... and only the endorsing artists/dealers seem to get the really cool options for repping the brand and the public are left with boring plain logo shirts most of the time.
So my question is, personally do you have an interest in band merch, why or why not
if no,
Is it because the designs are more often than not just plain brand logo's with no nice art/designs?
Is it because you do not want to wear a brand name of gear they like at all, even if it is subltle or creatively incorporated?
Don't want to waste money on it?
It suprises me brands don't put more effort into their merchandise to make people actually want to buy it and promote their brand more, offline, in the real world and off stage..... imagine the promotion a person walking around wearing your brand at a gig/event could give you, even if they themself are not onstage playing the gear they are usually in proximity of other musicians.
I dunno, food for thought I guess