Pearl Jam 2020 postponed posters

RS65573 said:

My experience in the 10club poster sales tells me the MSG and Baltimore poster will be sold today, or dead last after the rest. But they certainly have been surprising lately.

on2legs said:

KM73780 said:

I love that some bozo posted St. Louis on eBay as “tour variant” 

I saw that and thought the same thing.  Also crazy people are paying $100 plus over cost for a poster that is still for sale here.  

pdalowsky said:

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hihobibo said:

bradklausen said:

no variants... I think only Ames get variants... which makes sense... 

The NYC Williams Artist one is Blue, but the SE one in the promo video was yellow.

Those are probably the only artists who get variants...maybe Brad as well. 

Brad is literally the one who said "no variants" in the quotes above. LOL

I was just assuming that.... cause normally we don't get to do variants.... unless it is special like the 18 baseball stadium shows.... normally, we don't get offered variants (but I think ames is allowed to do some, again as a grandfather clause type of scenario thing, I think...no one has ever told me this, it's just my own deductive reasoning, given ames and I get 200, I figure they do that again with allowing ames to have variants)..... for say EV tours, the artists copies are a variant color from the show copies, but the artist only get their colorway, not both. But maybe for this tour they printed a few variants to mix into the show copies, golden ticket type of thing, only so many randomly mixed in to the stack of regulars.... that does happen from time to time....  

Should we call you Willy Wonka?

no, I am but a mere oompa loompa..... or a golden ticket winner myself.... cause every tour that rolls around when you get the email asking if you want to do a poster, it feels like getting a golden ticket each time given how many artists can now be considered for only so many spots 

the poster artists don't determine how many we get, or variants.... we get told what we get (and say thank you).... for other bands, sometimes you can buy your own variants, I know some bands are fine with that, if the artist wants to pay to print their own variants.... I am not the best to talk about this though... other poster artists are more savvy with their business and better negotiators... I usually am just stoked to get the opportunity and then excited/panicked about coming up with a concept, that I don't think much about maybe I could have negotiated for variants.... plus I never really like variants... I get they make an artist more money, but I never liked just randomly changing one color...to me if you are gonna do a variant, the whole color scheme should change.... or the paper at least.... too often I see variants being made not cause it's an interesting color way but just to make a variant.... on rainbow foil, or sparkle foil, or purple paper, or red paper etc..... a lot of the time when merch companies ask for a foil variant, it's tough, because designs don't always look great on foil, but the merch company wants a foil variant.... so if you are a good designer, you try and factor in how the foil will effect the design and if it will work on foil.... 

As every, absolutely on point. The Variant thing bears no interest to me either. 

They clearly do to a lot of folk though bearing in mind the Ames sale yesterday - they were hoovered up in seconds at $300. Blows my mind. I do wonder if much of that is the bots people use, and in doing so buy those prints blindly?

droptheleash9 said:

I'd be shocked if the prices on these didn't come down significantly over time. I just have a hard time seeing any of these becoming instant classics given that the shows literally never happened. Sure people love to add to their collections but I doubt posters of shows that don't exist are going right to the front of many folks' already crowded framing queues.