mexico city flea market appreciation thread
YieldToNothing
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that shit was epic
for those who were at the show- what kinda shit did ya buy?
got a t shirt
2 track jackets
gloves
scarf
keychain
lighter
coffee mug
2 wristbands (one stickman, one riot act skull)
pillow
total cost was less than the price of two official t's at a north american show.
gotta fucking love mexico
for those who were at the show- what kinda shit did ya buy?
got a t shirt
2 track jackets
gloves
scarf
keychain
lighter
coffee mug
2 wristbands (one stickman, one riot act skull)
pillow
total cost was less than the price of two official t's at a north american show.
gotta fucking love mexico
i have a paper here that entitles me to fast track status
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I really wanted someone to post pictures of all the great bootleg goods.
Please post pics of what you got.
I knew I should've taken some pics of it! That bootleg merchandising is about the coolest thing you can ever find. Every concert in Mexico features hundreds of cool items!
I didn't take pics from this, but go to 1:39:18 in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MetallicaLi ... zuSR_JJWJc
It's Metallica's, but the merchandising is similar and the flea market is pretty much the same, just adapting itself to the band in turn.
Hopefully someone did take some cool pics!
a former 10c member sent me this video and asked me to post it in the thread.
so now you know its real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-v8kC-8n4
:-)
I'm amazed how fast they reproduce (illegally) the merch.
but yes, they have tons of merch and at a very good price
Now I wish I was in mexico city even more!
I would love to see more merch at shows besides the regular line up of shirts, hats, hoodies....
how about a fleece blanket?? I'd buy a couple.
Pillows??
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Awesome video!!!
I asked the guys selling stuff last time Rammstein was in town, and they told me that when the band is touring the country (most bands touch Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey) they take the stuff to the other cities. Whatever is left, some sellers take it to another well known weekend flea market called "el Chopo"; leftovers without dates are sold in other shows. Others simply told me they were just employees and whatever was left they returned to whoever the "owner" is.
Maybe others do something different with their stuff; I still believe some items go to waste though.
but there were pillows?????????? and no one bought ME one?????
I know a place that has all the leftovers (not the "El Chopo" flea market). If you want I can go there and see if they still have pillows.
Paradise? It's all bootlegged stuff man. They are all selling / making profit using someone's image without any official consent. Why is it OK for them to sell these products on the street (especially @ this flea market) but if people here in Canada & USA make / sell a single shirt or poster, all hell breaks loose from Pearl Jam Co? I don't understand.
Were can we see those pics?
With build in image detector. Stickman fig if it's yes. Stickman fig with the ghostbuster like circle with the line across if it's no.
Bingo!!!
I agree with you Demetrios, 100%.
Thing is nobody "knows" who allows this and who makes them. Grupo CIE is the company who manages all the venues and sells all the tickets in Mexico (ticketmaster partner in Mexico) for every show.
Someone once told me that Grupo CIE is the one that allows this; they even make those products. They do this for ANY type of show (music shows, WWE, NFL preseason games, NBA games, Cirque du soleil, etc, you name it)
I avoid buying anything from those merch stands. It is illegal.
But from a foreigner point of view it is something new. You don't have this in your country. Also, sometimes, they even have better stuff than the official merch stands and cheaper. Mexico is not a healthy country and that's why people prefer buying from this merch stands (they save some money).
I think it would be a slow and costly process for Pearl Jam Co to try to avoid this. Even mexican artists know this and do nothing about it.
And I posted this on the Mexico City Fanviews thread:
In 2003 Eddie himself got out of the venue and bought that illegal merch on such merch stands. During the concert, Sleater Kinney girls were wearing some of those t-shirts.
This time, it was Eddie body guard the one doing the shopping in those merch stands
because in mexico if you pay off the cops, you can do what you please.
sad, but true
Another reason Mexico freakin rules.
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AGREED!
anyone who is complaining is doing so because a) they weren't there and b) they don't have the cool shit that i have!
I buy plenty of authorized merch....the band makes plenty of money off of me.
Maybe if PJ had something other than tshirts, hoodies and hats to sell at shows, this wouldnt be as much of an issue. The license plate frames, wristbands, bracelets, mugs....all things that if they were sold on pj.com, I would buy them.
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USA & Can are legal countries, you can't do this kind of shit and no way PJ lawyer would go at flea market in Mexico and bother with this, this is huge, it's bigger then a PJ, you just can't win here.
I mean you have same stuff in Italy and they are part of EU and they do all the time this kind of illegal market for every freaking band that comes to play there and I love it.
I know it's illegal and non official, but that wouldn't stop me to buy tonnes of shit.
I support and I buy all stuff from 10c and from official merch at the venue but this is great too, I really don't care
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I agree
They made a official bootlegs so we don't need to buy them of the street anymore and they won that game, now to win the war they have to make all this crazy official merch
They can get a lot of ideas of that flea market
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sent you a pm re: knowing where the extra/unsold stuff went.....would love to get my hands on mroe stuff if you can help out a gringo...