2015 Ten Club Analog Shirt (& Limited Edition Items?)

HesCalledDyer

bluesuedeitzrad wrote: »

I'm confused. I thought that the shirt and/or sticker was apart of the analog membership. We have to now pay for the t-shirt? I then saw that some of you have a coupon code for it – is that in addition to the bootleg coupon code?

When your membership renews, you will get a code that's redeemable for one membership item. Now, if you want both items, you'll have to pay for the other. But yes, one item is free, you just have to wait til your membership renews & use the code.

mookeywrench

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbsJPO-ZreM

The first 20 seconds of this ad seems awfully familiar....but i can't quite place it.

whispering hands

Lmao!! Hahahaha!!

FR181798

After 3 years of stickers etc. which were actually nicely desiGned but of no use to me whatsoever. Another AnaloG tshirt that is actually worse than the white. I have no issue with a shirt but the desiGn is just so poor with very little thouGht. They miGht call it a Gift but did they not hike the price up when they introduced the AnaloG thinG.

whispering hands

Now the complaining thing is starting to piss me off! Yes the Analog orice is higher than the digital price. If you can't seriously figure out why, then you're not reay thinking too well are you??? So, since there's such an issue.. Two points then I'm done with this.

ONE : first and foremost, it is a gift. The Analog membership is called that because we receive our singles in the ANALOG format. Period!

TWO: it costs more, because they have to ship them to us. Vinyl is not light! Add the fact that it's shipped with the physical format of the Deep mag, and that weighs a little more. Not that it's unbearably heavy, but shipping any thing if ANY significant weight is NOT cheap. The fact that you even GET anything outside of the mag and the single is awesome! If you don't like what you're getting, give it away.

Side note... I understand the pint if feedback. But this has gone beyond feedback.. It used to be said, you can't please everyone. In this screwed up day and age it can now be said you can't please anyone.

derbydave

I'm good!!!
I liked the sticker/poster packages we got...
especially the patches and window clings!!
And I like the luggage tags for this year.
The T-shirt isn't my favorite thing ever,
but I'll still get one anyway because I like the red shirt!

PJfanwillneverleave1

whispering hands wrote: »

Now the complaining thing is starting to piss me off!
ONE : first and foremost, it is a gift.

TWO: it costs more, because they have to ship them to us. Vinyl is not light! Add the fact that it's shipped with the physical format of the Deep mag, and that weighs a little more. Not that it's unbearably heavy, but shipping any thing if ANY significant weight is NOT cheap.

Can you imagine the bitching when the Analog members receive a Benny with their renewal. Oh boy

derbydave

PJfanwillneverleave1 wrote: »

whispering hands wrote: »

Now the complaining thing is starting to piss me off!
ONE : first and foremost, it is a gift.

TWO: it costs more, because they have to ship them to us. Vinyl is not light! Add the fact that it's shipped with the physical format of the Deep mag, and that weighs a little more. Not that it's unbearably heavy, but shipping any thing if ANY significant weight is NOT cheap.

Can you imagine the bitching when the Analog members receive a Benny with their renewal. Oh boy

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HesCalledDyer

whispering hands wrote: »

Now the complaining thing is starting to piss me off! Yes the Analog orice is higher than the digital price. If you can't seriously figure out why, then you're not reay thinking too well are you??? So, since there's such an issue.. Two points then I'm done with this.

ONE : first and foremost, it is a gift. The Analog membership is called that because we receive our singles in the ANALOG format. Period!

TWO: it costs more, because they have to ship them to us. Vinyl is not light! Add the fact that it's shipped with the physical format of the Deep mag, and that weighs a little more. Not that it's unbearably heavy, but shipping any thing if ANY significant weight is NOT cheap. The fact that you even GET anything outside of the mag and the single is awesome! If you don't like what you're getting, give it away.

Side note... I understand the pint if feedback. But this has gone beyond feedback.. It used to be said, you can't please everyone. In this screwed up day and age it can now be said you can't please anyone.

Not only the shipping cost, but the cost of shipping materials as well. That shit ain't cheap, even in bulk.

deadendp

^^ All true. As I said on AET, renewing Analog is an option. It isn't THE only option. It is not a requirement of life. I'm with Dave. I liked the stickers and things that they offered before. I appreciate that we get ANYTHING at all.

I agree with Whispering Hands & HesCalledDyer. Shipping that stuff isn't cheap and shipping materials are almost worse.

If the membership offerings aren't something that works for you, then don't worry about getting it. Feel free to take the money and support one of the Vitalogy Foundation's many non-profits. You won't get a free shirt, stickers or anything like that, but you will have gone forth and helped others and that is a great thing. Food for thought. Maybe that should be one of the options for Analog membership choices. T-shirt, luggage tags or VF non-profit support.

rickerbound

I'm analog purely for the physical holiday single. Like a few previous posters have said, I'm a fan of Pearl Jam, not a fan of the Fan Club. I think all members should be given the option of the gift, and I'd prefer if the gifts had major branding of the band and then minor branding of the 10c so others could recognise that firstly we're PJ fans, and secondly we're in the PJ fan club. There have been so many cool posters, artwork, shirts etc associated with the band over its history, surely a more interesting design can be achieved. Not a fan of the I'm Analog branding. We're all Pearl Jam fans.

madtowndave

I don't mind getting a shirt or luggage tags (which I can use). I just wish they weren't so fugly.

dot30

When did we get window clings??

derbydave

dot30 wrote: »

When did we get window clings??

They were in our Analog membership gifts for 2013 & 2014:

pdalowsky

Is it really important to people that others recognize they are pj fans?

Force Of Nature

My problem with it is I don't see it as a 'gift'. Dress it up any way you want but when you constantly get the vinyl, deep mag, bootleg & tshirt/stickers, I don't see anything as a free gift anymore, more that is what I now expect for $20. It's like turning round & saying the vinyl is the free 'gift', it's always the same sort of stuff & loses that gift feeling. If the gift was occasionally more interesting that would be great, but as an adult I don't have much use for stickers.

Having said that, it is obvious that's purely how I see it & not a dig at the fan club. I just think the designs are consistently poor, which I'm allowed to have an opinion on without people thinking I'm ungrateful for a gift. This is why I changed to digital next year.

abedog

Nothing is for free my friends, the cost of the 'gift' is definitely built into the price of the analog membership. I don't get peoples argument that "It's a gift so stop complaining". Why give a 'gift' that nobody likes? That doesn't make sense to me. Let's reward our loyal fan base by giving them something they want...now that makes sense to me.

shetellsherself

deadendp wrote: »

Food for thought. Maybe that should be one of the options for Analog membership choices. T-shirt, luggage tags or VF non-profit support.

AWESOME idea!!

HughFreakingDillon

shetellsherself wrote: »

deadendp wrote: »

Food for thought. Maybe that should be one of the options for Analog membership choices. T-shirt, luggage tags or VF non-profit support.

AWESOME idea!!

I dig this idea as well.

HughFreakingDillon

pdalowsky wrote: »

Is it really important to people that others recognize they are pj fans?

Lol

HughFreakingDillon

If you go digital, you can still score the deep mag and single on ebay usually for a lot less than the price of the member

whispering hands wrote: »

cincybearcat wrote: »

Whispering hands....

Except this one..
http://www.metallica.com/metclub/metclub-more-info.asp

Cool!! I love seeing that bands try to be sure their fans are happy! Of course, I'm sure the Metallicans are just as ungrateful at times as we are.. Are are we the rarity?

Metallica played a week of fanclub only shows at $19.81 per show. Cant get much more awesome than that.

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul wrote: »

Re people loving merch with the TMR brand vs the 10C brand: TMR isn't a fan club. It's a record company. Big difference.

they are essentially the same business up front. Tmr is a fan club that happens to press specialty vinyl for other artists. All i mean is their "fan club" type shirts they do for their packages are usually very neat. And something different every time. I don't think people would bitch so much if 10 didnt repeat itself every bloody year.

FR181798

Everyone has a right to express their opinion. They upped the price if you wanted to stay the Analog route and tried to say this stuff was a gift. They could have increased the price a little but kept the price lower than it is by not manufacturing these 'gifts'. Neither the stickers or the ts are likely to entice members. Manufacturing this stuff just seems a waste.

Zod

Ryan wrote: »

This is atrocious, as were the sticker sets. Save me $10 or $20, as well as the shame of being in my 30s and still belonging to a fan club, and don't send any garbage with "10c" on it. I joined the fan club in the first place because I liked Pearl Jam, not because I am a fan of their fan club.

The only reason I still have the analog membership is to keep the holiday single collection going. If it weren't for that, I'd get a digital membership.

That's how I feel as well. Back in the day the membership (for international) jumped from $25 to $50. All we got was the I'm Analog Tshirt, stickers, and now an even tackier I'm Analog Shirt/Luggage Tags. I'm only analog for the Christmas Single. I suppose I could change it, go digital, and hope they sell the leftover singles on the website later on. Maybe they Could make a $35 or $40 medium membership which is Digital + the xmas single.

HesCalledDyer

EVERYTHING that you buy has had prices drastically raised in the last 5-10 years.

For $40:
-Cost of writing, editing, & printing Deep magazine
-Cost of producing and pressing annual single
-Cost of shipping materials to package Deep magazine & annual single
-Cost of shipping that package w/ the mag & single
-Operational / labor costs for all of the above
-And if you consider the $10 bootleg download code is basically the same as buying yourself a gift card, then $30 covers everything else I've already mentioned. All that for $30 seems like a pretty reasonable deal to me, and 10C is still probably losing money on each member.

Safe to say that designing, printing, packaging, and shipping a t-shirt, luggage tags, or poster/sticker/patch kit is, indeed, a gift.

derbydave

I appreciate the fact that 10 Club gives us the opportunity to purchase these members-only items.
They may not be the best designs ever or even one of my favorite products they've done,
but I do find these new products interesting & useful...
I know the luggage tags will help my bags stand out on the baggage claim conveyor belts!!

on2legs

I like ten club gear. Not a fan of the I'm Analog campaign.

Ty

Don't need no red t-shirt, don't need no luggage tags, don't need no time machine, got me an electronic dream!

(Going digital this year, yep)

PJ_Soul

It really would be a huge improvement if the "I'm" wasn't there.... i wonder if they've already had them all made? If not they should make the change.

PJfanwillneverleave1

PJ_Soul wrote: »

It really would be a huge improvement if the "I'm" wasn't there.... i wonder if they've already had them all made? If not they should make the change.

Imagine if there was a variant along the lines of
"I'm an anal log"?
Wonder how in demand analog memberships would be then...