The "Limit 2 poster per person" petition!?!

CJMST3K

Another thing to consider is the merch booth (or rather, the venue) keeps a gigantic amount of the money from all merch sales - at least in the NYC/NJ areas. So if a poster sells for $35, chances are the band sees $19 of that (very rough math). I used to have specific figures in hand, but never thought I'd need to remember something so obscure.

shep

Hoff, I like your idea - but unfortunately it is too smart for the 10C and as a result it will never fly. but in theory it is perfect, it's a win, win, win.

inmytree1380 wrote:

The poster artist has no say in how many posters are printed for the show; it's the band and managements call.

The poster artists are contacted prior to a tour, asked to come up with a design for a city(ies), and are offered either of the following:

a.) a set fee for designing the poster

or

b.) an X amount of artist prints (A/P) to sign and number and sell for any amount of money they choose at conventions, on their website, etc.

Most of these artists choose the latter. Brad Klausen, case and point, chose the latter as he was selling his artist proofs Sunday at his merch table in the expo center. His posters were numbered out of 215 (or somewhere around there) and he was selling them for $70.00 per.

So it is Pearl Jam and their peeps that must come up with a ruling on how many per person or simply print more.

Actually, what you have written above is not the case. The artist gets commissioned to do a print by the 10C for a set price. In addition to the commission, they can select an extra $ amount, or get 100 prints to sell themselves (usually 100, but in BK or Ames' case, usually 200).

The expensive part of printing the posters is the actual designing of the silk-screens, setting up the machine, and taking apart the set-up and cleaning up the maching. The actual printing of the poster is the least time consuming process, and is done rather cheaply. For this reason it makes very much sense to do it the way the hoff is suggesting.

Also - I have no problem with the 1 per person limit as well. I am a person who believes that people at the show deserve these posters as momentoes first and foremost. for that reason, i usually never ask anyone to buy them for me at shows (i had a quick respite for PJ20, but after thinking about it long and hard I told the person who had offered to help me out not to bother because others deserved to get them first... clearly my resolve did not help many).... however; I'll back this off a little because I know so many people think that they should be able to buy 1 and sell 1 on ebay so that there's is free (atleast that was the explanation I got from about 15 people at the Hartford show last year...)... so I don't want to upset them....