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Bands that have had merciless merch

Does any one like Kiss

aside from working a gig in finsbury park one time

i've never met a fan in the wild

who is buying this shite

:hmm:

Saw them in the 90s.

I hadn't listened to a single song of theirs before I went and haven't after either. Couldn't name any of their songs. I'm not really a fan
 
Going off topic a bit, but does anyone like Cheap Trick? I always have them in the same 'big in the US but never really translated over here' camp as Kiss.

I do love that I Want You to Want Me track, though. Having said that, it's the only one I know.
 
The Beatles weren't shy of a bit of cash in...

Beatles mothballs
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Beatles sellotape
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Beatles twig :confused:
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Thread needs more Laibach - sadly, I don't think you can get the Laibach antisemitism condoms anymore, but you can still get the Laibach Slavoj Zizek bib:
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Laibach soap:
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Laibach fag packet cases so you can think about Slovenian industrial instead of cancer while you smoke:
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Oh, and Laibach probably also the only band to issue their own passports?
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Can we have stuff that isn't really merch , but just shameless licensing?

In the 90s , Asda had Spice Girls mini swiss rolls. Sadly no pictures are online.

They could have done it as 5 different flavours in the packet, with different individual wrappers.

But they didn't. It was just economy swiss rolls in a branded outer wrapper
 
I was saying last night how HMHB gigs are unbearable because they're full of terrible middle aged men in ducla prague away kits waving their joy division oven gloves about.
I just clicked through to the "Greatest Merch" thread from 2009 in the suggested threads down at the bottom of the page, and:
i wonder how much the dukla prague away shirt outsells the normal one by? you can't move for middle-aged dudes wearing them at HMHB gigs...
A 13-year running grudge.
 
I still reckon one of the most memorable pieces of merch I've ever seen was some Austrian crust band back in the day who, if I recall correctly, were flogging some white socks that they'd drawn birds on with marker pen. Not even like fancy drawings of birds, just like that sort of v-shape you might use to convey that there's a flock of birds flying around in the background of a picture. Would definitely have been a unique item of clothing, but I dunno how well the marker pen would've stood up to repeated washing.
 
Band t-shirts/clothing could be a significant subset of merch and probably worth its own thread - There are some pretty awful ones out there, some deliberate!
 
Did I hear on the radio that the plane had just made its final flight in the last week or so?

If so, the aircraft scrappie who will be disposing of it should be cashing right-in by selling it off in very small pieces, plus all its fixtures, fittings and instruments! :D
Oh don't know about that, will have to look. But Dickinson is getting towards the max age limit for an airline pilot.
 
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