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My band (Eleven Eyes) works in some wierd gray
area between the jam band and jazz scenes, and our merch sales are probably
split about 50/50 between CD's and shirts. But, of the 2, shirts are the bigger
headache, they are more expensive per unit to produce because of the minimums on
each size, and you can never have all the sizes and styles that people ask for.
Plus, at each sale, instead of handing them a CD and taking the cash, you have
to dig through the merch case to see if you even have the requested size, and
sit through the inevitable "I dunno, do you think it makes my butt look big?"
Shirts ultimately pay for themselves, but as far as shirt-sales subsidizing a
music career, in our case, a regionally touring band that stays very busy, if we
depended on shirt sales, we'd be even poorer than we are now.
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