Knarfster: If I could pull my head out of my ass for long enought to come up for air between f/t university, p/t work, two kids, a husband and an oversized dorrknob aka The Dog, I would set up my own shop over the net or something. There are som many items that I would like to have available that are not out there, such as big-ass iron-on patches for my bomber jacket and smaller versions thereof for my leather gear. In the meantime, I am working on one of my friends, who runs a successful ebay merchandise bussiness, to see if he can't get something going. He's a huge fan of the band anyhow, so I thought that might be mixing bussiness with pleasure. I'm not sure what kinds of copyrights issues etc are involved at all, so I have to get him to look at that. There are some AA things available on ebay already. I like to buy the stuff myself, just to support the band and the label, but some stuff is not made available to North America. Fortunately for me, I can ask Johan for such items (which I hate doing, cuz I don't want him to have to buy my clothes for me, and besides, it's supposed to be the big sis that buys the stuff for the younger sibling, not the other way around!), but it'd be really nice if everyone could get access to all the items. Not only do we, the fans, want them, but the band gets a cut from merch sales, and these guys aren't exactly rolling in mullah, so it'd be a good way to support the band, too.
and dealing with merchandising from little little little bands, i have come across with the revealing truth that a well done girlies merchandise is more powerful in terms of spread the band names that thousands of guy..because, and now i guve the example: Metal gig 1000 people, vary depending countries but normally distribution would be 800 guys,200 girls( as its best)...those 800 guys are normally complaining the lack of girls in metal gigs, therefore lets assume those 800 will look at least 100 of those girls, and well...it would be a pretty story if guys stare at girls´eyes..but we all now the truth, the look a little under, therefore..whoever band who has payed a little attention to girls merchandise, care about size,colours,price and distribution and all this stuff and whose LOGO is written across those 100 chest would have infinitely most exposure that any of the bands on the 800 guys who normally are less looked at than the girls...
