The merch trucks are the worst thing to happen for the fans. It's totally lost the purpose of making it a convenient way for you to get your poster and shirt and stash it in the car or hotel and it's become an all day long ordeal and a total shit show that doesn't even guarantee that you get what you want anyway. It was much better when it was the responsibility of the venue because people there were not even attending the show couldn't buy up everything to flip, and it meant that if you got in the doors at a reasonable time you could still find what you wanted spread out between multiple venue booths.
After watching the lines at Wrigley and just about every subsequent show since grow to 2-4 blocks long and start at 8 or 9 AM I've decided that I'm just ignoring it completely from now on. I might end up with a shirt if I find one I like inside but I hardly even pay attention to them anymore.
I'd much rather spend my time exploring a new city I've never been to, going to the pre-party, eating at a restaurant, drinking, whatever. There are so many better things you can do on a show day then stand in line for 5 hours for a damn poster that probably sold out 10 people in front of you and a shirt that is a size too big or small.
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I agree. The merch trucks have stopped me from buying posters to the shows I go to....maybe thats a good thing. I might pick one up inside but it's not a given anymore and generally I dont. I do still buy merch inside the venue, but not as much as I use to as well.
The "cost" of getting the better merch is way too high for me know....I got the $ but I ain't got the time!
That is only one of the lines at Wrigley - there were 3 merch tents, then came the fun of the rush inside when the gates opened.. great times, I loved every minute of it. Thursday while in the merch line we got to hear the PJ sound check and then on Friday we all got the TC email stating that merch tents would open earlier than announced so we got in line early that Friday morning and we took turns going to McDonalds while we waited...
Wrigley was a disaster before, during, and after the show....lines didn't move...just wanted a shirt, didn't care about the poster like most people wanted, ended up with a crappy white Wrigley shirt after the show after almost getting mauled (and im no small guy)...and the damn thing shrunk weird and I don't even wear it
im with the guy above me I give up on all that standing in line crap and would rather spend time exploring the city and take my time in everything that I do that day and just take it all in and meet cool people
St. Paul, MN was the worst. Truck opened 1 hour late and WWII veterans working. Thank you for your service but they were slowest. Waited 4 hours, no buttons or stickers left (ugly yellow shirts left yes). Told wife no more merch. Psyched for the tour! no mercy.
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Vic Theatre Show got it right in 07 But too bad I didn't get in LOL! Listened through the brick walls out back by the El Train Got Lolla tho!
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Time is money. If it's *really* worth it to you, let the merch mules procure it for you and pay the inevitable 200% markup on eBay. But, mirroring what others are saying above, wasting the better part of a day for a shirt and a poster doesn't seem to be the best use of one's finite time in that tour stop when one could be checking out the city and what it has to offer.
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I`m getting a god damn poster this time....Unfortunately every show I have been to had an awesome poster that sold out quick.... That Pittsburgh 13 poster would have looked amazing next to the posters of shows I was not at.
St. Paul, MN was the worst. Truck opened 1 hour late and WWII veterans working. Thank you for your service but they were slowest. Waited 4 hours, no buttons or stickers left (ugly yellow shirts left yes). Told wife no more merch. Psyched for the tour! no mercy.
That was the last nail in the coffin for me. Wasted over 3 hours and moved maybe 8 feet. Never again will I stand in an outside merch line.
I'm going to the Greenville show and I definitely want to get a poster. Will they be available online to purchase?? I really don't want to stand in line for hours.
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ISO 2016 Greenville shirt. Size medium. PM me if you have one for sale/trade.
I saw a few people mention they wait until the artist sells them or they are added to the online shop. Does this happen for every show? I assumed it was just for posters that didn't sell out.
I saw a few people mention they wait until the artist sells them or they are added to the online shop. Does this happen for every show? I assumed it was just for posters that didn't sell out.
Not necessarily. For the 2013 tour they dropped the entire east coast leg at once, then the entire west leg at once a week or a month later, don't recall. But both were dropped well after the tour was over. 2014 they were released when the corresponding bootlegs were released, on a weekly basis. They set a stock back to sell online. You just gotta been Johnny on the spot when they do release it.
I remember the St. Paul mercy booth opening two hours late, having two stoned out old guys working and the credit card machine broke down. I shit you not.
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I remember the St. Paul mercy booth opening two hours late, having two stoned out old guys working and the credit card machine broke down. I shit you not.
All true. Everyone scrambled to the Holiday Inn to get cash at the ATM and it was down, too. I was at the Mall of America later that afternoon and the ATMs were down there, as well. Had to be a big server issue or something for shit not to be working all around town & nearby.
I saw a few people mention they wait until the artist sells them or they are added to the online shop. Does this happen for every show? I assumed it was just for posters that didn't sell out.
Yes this usually happen for every show. The artist will sell their artist edition copies & 10club will have their share of prints to sell @ the 10club store. For 2015 prints, it's really been strange. Cause if the official CD & digital bootlegs goes up for sale, usually the poster will go up for sale too. Not this time.
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After watching the lines at Wrigley and just about every subsequent show since grow to 2-4 blocks long and start at 8 or 9 AM I've decided that I'm just ignoring it completely from now on. I might end up with a shirt if I find one I like inside but I hardly even pay attention to them anymore.
I'd much rather spend my time exploring a new city I've never been to, going to the pre-party, eating at a restaurant, drinking, whatever. There are so many better things you can do on a show day then stand in line for 5 hours for a damn poster that probably sold out 10 people in front of you and a shirt that is a size too big or small.
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99 Tibetan Freedom Concert, 00 Detroit, 03 Alpine Valley, 04 Grand Rapids
06 Chicago I, 06 Chicago II, 06 Grand Rapids, 07 Lollapalloza, 08 DC, 08 MSG I, 08 MSG II, 08 EV Solo Milwaukee, Chicago I & II 09, Portland 09, Nobelsville 10, Cleveland 10, PJ20 I & II, Wrigley 13, Brooklyn I & II '13, St. Paul 14, Moline 14, Milwaukee 14
The "cost" of getting the better merch is way too high for me know....I got the $ but I ain't got the time!
even if I look and act really crazy.
im with the guy above me I give up on all that standing in line crap and would rather spend time exploring the city and take my time in everything that I do that day and just take it all in and meet cool people
2010 Newark, MSG I
2013 Wrigley Field, Brooklyn I & II, Hartford, LA I & II, San Diego
2014 Detroit, Moline, St. Paul & Milwaukee
2015 Ed Sullivan Theater/ Central Park
2016 FTL, Miami, Philly 1&2, MSG 1&2, Fenway 1
2017 RRHOF
2018 Seattle I & II, Missoula, Boston I & II
2022 Apollo, MSG, Camden, Nashville & St. Louis
2023 St.P. 1 & 2, Austin 1 & 2
But too bad I didn't get in LOL! Listened through the brick walls out back by the El Train
Got Lolla tho!
BHAM 03
ATLANTA 03
LOLLA 07
ROO 08
EV SOLO Memphis
EV SOLO ATL 1
Music Midtown Speptember 22, 2012
EV SOLO Memphis Nov. 21
WRIGLEY FIELD JULY 19...and 20!!! 2013
I will light a match this morning so I won't be alone
So much time and effort and stress and money getting the items and when you die into the trash it goes.
ISO 2016 Greenville shirt. Size medium. PM me if you have one for sale/trade.
They set a stock back to sell online. You just gotta been Johnny on the spot when they do release it.
-Christopher Walken
you're=you are
your=showing ownership
The truth has a well known liberal bias.
-Stephen Colbert
Yes this usually happen for every show. The artist will sell their artist edition copies & 10club will have their share of prints to sell @ the 10club store. For 2015 prints, it's really been strange. Cause if the official CD & digital bootlegs goes up for sale, usually the poster will go up for sale too. Not this time.