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Band Merch?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:28 pm
by Lee
Hi all, I'm looking at getting some T-shirts, stickers and (most importantly) beer coolers made for my band. Any recommendations based on good and bad experiences? Thanks.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:18 pm
by Kurt
Also interested, all the printers I've found for small runs are bloody expensive!

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:24 am
by The Tasmanian
I'm interested too in some stickers - not for band merch - but for political/enviromental reasons.
Yes I live in Tasmania - the stupid state

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:00 am
by jkhuri44
www.redbubble.com

most people i know use this for small runs and for funny shit...also if it catches on, you can make $$ off it.

You can make t's, stickers, prints, poster, whatever. Submit your own design, they print, ship to you..

etc.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:14 am
by GlennS
http://www.awesomescreenprinting.com.au/

Dunno about the price because its been a long time since I was in a band and had t-shirts made, but if I used them the price must've been reasonable. They do good work.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:19 pm
by Lee
Thanks for the replies. I have sent for quotes at these places and I'm waiting for a reply-
http://www.sound-merch.com.au/
http://www.redoctopus.com.au/

I also asked Awesome Screenprinting thanks Glen.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:13 am
by stosostu
http://www.vistaprint.com.au/

Worth a try, very cheap for startup quantities.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:39 am
by Wiz
stosostu wrote:http://www.vistaprint.com.au/

Worth a try, very cheap for startup quantities.


I got some business cards from them, and a one off t shirt...they did what they said they would do.

I think it was 20 bucks for the t shirt..

cheers

Wiz

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:45 pm
by justin
Pulp Screen Printing did a great job for me

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pulp-Scre ... 3419057005

Adelaide CBD

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:32 am
by Drumstruck
Wiz wrote:
stosostu wrote:http://www.vistaprint.com.au/

Worth a try, very cheap for startup quantities.


I got some business cards from them, and a one off t shirt...they did what they said they would do.

I think it was 20 bucks for the t shirt..

cheers

Wiz


Agreed - I also got business cards from them - good enough for small scale but not perfect. I think they're giving free freight now.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:38 am
by justin
my vistaprint cards were a bit of a disappointment, but I guess I did get my money's worth at $.005 each or whatever they worked out at..

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:20 pm
by Manning
The Tasmanian wrote:I'm interested too in some stickers - not for band merch - but for political/enviromental reasons.
Yes I live in Tasmania - the stupid state


Ah fond memories... the stupid state paid for my first electric guitar (A Gibson L6S).

At the age of 15 I was arrested at the Franklin dam protests. The police failed to correctly process me as a juvenile (to be fair I was quite tall for my age) and subsequently detained me in an adult jail for two days, plus made no attempt to contact my parents.

I was eventually paid $500 compensation. (In hindsight I probably could have gotten much more, but at the time I was quite delighted, that was a lot of money to a poor kid in 1983).

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:31 pm
by mylesgm
a friend of mine showed me a pocketwatch that he had got at a gig as merch. The band had bought them from somewhere in china with engraving and band stuff on the watchface and was still making a profit from them selling them at $10 each. They were flying off the merch table. Don't know where they got them from but they were pretty cool.

Tassie the stupid state? Tassie is the most interesting and contradictory state but I wouldn't call it stupid. Plenty of idiots all over australia, don't think one state has the monopoly on that.

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:31 pm
by mylesgm
except maybe the ACT and their idiots are all just fly-in fly-out...

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:58 pm
by Kurt
Yep, we get all your idiots part time.

mylesgm wrote:except maybe the ACT and their idiots are all just fly-in fly-out...

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:24 am
by Drumstruck
mylesgm wrote:Plenty of idiots all over australia, don't think one state has the monopoly on that.


Q:
So how do you know that toothpaste was invented in Nowra?





A:
Because if they invented it anywhere else they would have called it teethpaste =))

Re: Band Merch?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:12 pm
by jkhuri44
^ thats F@#$ing gold :D