Omg Their Logo is my favorite band.
I’ve found that streamers tend to have pretty nice merch. Unfortunately it tends to be pretty expensive because of special requirements and fairly small production runs. They also interact with the viewers directly, so complaints likely come up on stream.
It seems like Youtubers on the other hand just send a picture to a merch producer and let them deal with it.
Custom T-shirts with extremely limited runs (hundreds) cost $10. Creators are selling them for $20+. Creator merch is a scam or if you want to look at it more positively, a donation with an item in return but no items sold by a creator is even close to a reasonable profit margin.
I think my favorite one I’ve seen recently was for someone on Instagram. It honestly doesn’t seem like they really do anything but upload selfies so I was surprised to see they had merch…
When I went to the page it was full of $60 tshirts and $120 hoodies that just had a small monogrammed logo that was basically just their initials lol it was done in the same exact color as the shirt so it was basically invisible unless someone’s getting VERY up close and personal with you lol
I just found out it’s called professional line and it’s a thing. A streamer I watch has a mostly adult community and without fail every time he puts out a merch line there’s people asking for the professional line. Its basically the clothing blanks with no mayor logos and maaaaybe a tiny monogram somewhere that blends in.
Granted his shirts aren’t usually just solid color so a professional line makes sense, they have some sort of pattern or are dyed in weird ways and then have his art on it. He hasn’t put out merch with just his name since the early days, it’s actually cool stuff now.
Also local bands.
The shirt material will grate your nipples off.
To be fair as a local band it is really hard to make money on printing merch these days. I always try to spring for the Bella when I’m ordering but it’s like 11 dollars a shirt for one color printing and people are cheap buying it
Just gotta go the “silk screened in mom’s garage” route to pump them babies out on demand. Once you’ve made the screen, you’re golden. Pretty easy if you’re just printing out transparencies, $3 or $4 per Gildan, $8 per Bella at a craft store[1] and paint costs are negligible after initial purchase. Frankly I wouldn’t spring for anything fancy since when it comes to “how much will I pay for band merch” the quality of said article is likely irrelevant.
though you can get em half that if you shop around online, getting stuck with shirts you’ll never sell would suck ↩︎
Ok but like, the Linus Tech Tips merch 🔥 tho
