We have looked into a lot of different methods for making affordable T-shirts available to you guys. There are some company's that would allow us to upload a design and then they would sell print and ship the shirt to you. But we have always been very picky about what merch we make available and the quality of stuff we give to you guys. The thought of you guys buying shirts that we have never seen before and the possibility of them being a piece of crap, well... sucks! There is something about us being able to order the merch ourselves, taking the orders directly from you guys, and shipping them out to you ourselves that really appeals to us. And until it gets to a point that we can no longer handle the amount of orders ourself, we want to continue to do this! And trust us, we get no where near that many orders yet! :) With that being said the overhead costs for high quality T-shirts can be pretty high! And so far the printing of albums has come before T-shirts in our budget.
But we are happy to say that we have checked out our iTunes royalties from the past few months, and thanks to all of you who either bought our cds or downloaded the album on iTunes, we have enough cash to cover the overhead costs for another round of shirts!
Alright enough with the boring stuff, lets get to the design! The new design was designed by Nick and was designed with the lovely females as well as the dudes in mind. We understand that the gas-mask theme... was pretty dude-ish. I think that both the ladies and the fellas will be happy to sport the new design, and plus, it features the "f-word"!
Rep The Dreamer and the Sleeper and piss your grandparents off at the same time!!! Juuust kidding Grandma. Below is a draft of the design we would like to use for the new shirts.
Ideally we would like to print these on some sort of American Apparel ladies tee, as well as a plain old American-App unisex tee. Some of the girls have been complaining that the plain old Haines beefy tees don't fit well, and we want you to be feeling good as well as looking good! We are not POSITIVE that we'll be able to do this because of the costs but it is definitely something we would love to do.
Also another thought we have had is to do a pre-sale of the shirts where we will sell them relatively cheap (at little or no-profit to us, all we really ask is that we break even). Stay tuned for info on this!
We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new design! We know, we know, this is big deal over one little T-shirt, but as you may know we don't do this too often so we want to let you know what's up!
