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Starting an elitist subculture T-shirt company

12:54 / 05.11.02

Make shirts that say shit like "Are you on my level?" and all.

Or not.

Whisky Priestess

13:35 / 05.11.02

Are you really? If you provide the means of production (which should of course be given back to the workers, i.e. me) I'll provide the slogans. We could make a mint. We could be the king and queen of t-shirts. As long as you're London based we can set up a stall in Camden and sell retrironic children's Thundercats sweatshirts gleaned from local Humana bins for a fortune, then retire on the proceeds. Deal?

The Natural Way

13:45 / 05.11.02

Rage is USA based.

14:11 / 05.11.02

...and the captains of industry breathe easy once more.

14:27 / 05.11.02

Rage is USA based

That'd probably sell well as a T-shirt slogan as well.

14:38 / 05.11.02

Cafe Press is probably one of the easiest ways to do it...

17:50 / 05.11.02

Funny that you mention this, I was just tidying up the QG accounts last night... to be knotted with string and sealing wax dropped on the knots. And buried in a salt flat. Well it wasn't that bad... it's not that money can't be made from T-shirts, but I don't think that money can be made from T-shirts by me. Particularly not subversive T-shirts. I can't make myself get over the idea that to be really subversive, the T-shirts have to be free. Or maybe $5. Right now I am considering having downloadable iron-ons available for free on my website --sized, reversed, and ready to print & iron. Is that just stupid?

19:24 / 05.11.02

I just work on the principle that no one will actually want to buy the t-shirts I design... which stops me worrying about what they cost.

Persephone, I think your designs (having seen the queer granny stuff, the shirt you made for sfd, and the card you made for me) are absolutely fantastic. And you should get 'em out there, in whatever way you feel most comfortable...

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:53 / 05.11.02

Now I feel really guilty about the overdue package to Persephone.

I think iron-ons are the best idea, period. The person chooses their own shirt, you just need to send things in envelopes - win-win!

23:23 / 05.11.02

Right now I am considering having downloadable iron-ons available for free on my website --sized, reversed, and ready to print & iron. Is that just stupid?

No. That is cool. Wouldn't you get a buzz seeing someone wearing one? It would beat reading your stats, wouldn't it?

00:07 / 06.11.02

I just work on the principle that no one will actually want to buy the t-shirts I design...

LOL ...I did really laugh out loud at this. In contrast, I'm a cartoon of a dreamer. I am my father's daughter, after all. I mean, *two* people outside of Barbelith buy T-shirts from me & that starts me off making plans for world domination.

Rothkoid, I utterly forbid you to feel guilty. If it weren't for you, I would never have started on this t-shirt thing* at all. Which reminds me, I still have POTATO JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY on my list.

*that's a good thing, ahem!

I would get a buzz... but then this is me, then I worry someone would steal my designs for the nefarious purpose of building a t-shirt empire. And then I would have to sue, etc. (I have very detailed, long-range worries...)

But enough about me. The thing about starting a t-shirt *business* is sinking the money in the beginning, and then you have to --you know-- sell the t-shirts. It really is an interesting question, the idea of an elitist subculture anything company. Capitalism is very corrupting, etc.

00:47 / 06.11.02

Ragel Hinewater starts a new colony of SUPER panties done wrote: Make shirts that say shit like "Are you on my level?" and all.
[David Mamet] "You're bring this shit up on MY level?!?! There was a time when I came to you and you'd HARBOR it!!" [/David Mamet]

jUne, a sunshiny month

09:17 / 08.11.02

some friends of mine and i are starting a tiny record label structure, without any false ideas or dreal about it. we dot i for the pleasure of doing it, and for the wonderful sensation of wasting our money.
in the same state of mind, we currently work on some t's for promoting our label, and sending them to artists and people will love, and more of it, it's a pretty bad excuse to realise all our old fantasms about doing our owns t's in quite correct quantities.
so right now we wait for 2 different models, on many colors and 3 sizes (L, XL and XS), and we spend some really good times on creating what will become our next clothes, too

we don't work that much on around the label's logo, more on whatever we feel looks cool. so the result is cool and fun. will post it.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:17 / 09.11.02

Is that just stupid?

Heck, no! I'm with Ignatius J. on this one-- it's a great idea and one which I may shamefully rip off.

Rage: If you could come up with a decent slogan and print the things off fairly cheap, you might be able to make some money by touting an armload of the things round festivals or whatever. I knew a guy once who made a decent profit hawking those light-up yo-yos round Glastonbury.

People'll buy all sorts of shite when they're high.

autopilot disengaged

17:20 / 09.11.02

...which, of course, is a slogan all of its own...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:42 / 10.11.02

Not as good as "Mr Kipling's Chocolate Hash Cakes-- Exceedingly Good Shit", which I've been meaning to market for ages.