What an amazing strike out this is against the fat-cat venues and taxes that cost bands money and means the fans get ripped off because some greedy bugger wants a big slice of the cake in merchandice sales, well they can't get big money from $1 a T-Shirt, I aplaud this as often it used to be the only way a band could make any money, through merchandise sales of T-Shirts. Here's the story:
** takk tshirts for $1 in las vegas **
as you can see on the news page, tshirts are sold for $1 each at tonight's show in vegas. this does not include limited garments. las vegas showgoers, spread the word!
here is a message from dean, sigur ros's manager:
Re: LAS VEGAS SWAG
The venue tonight charge 30% of our gross. The sales tax is 7% and on top of this there is a new gaming tax of an additional 10%. We, the band, have to pay for the cost of the shirt, the shipping, the printing, our merchandiser etc from the remaining 53%. The obvious and usual reaction to extortionate venue commissions is to hike the price of the shirts which simply serves to hurt the fan and help the venue to earn even more. It's immoral for a venue to earn more from a band's merchandise than the band. We simply felt that by reducing the price of the shirts to a mere $1 the venue might rethink the wisdom of keeping their fees so high when the taxes here are higher than anywhere else on the US tour. 30% of nothing amounts to nothing. Tonight's protest will cost the band and the venue money but some of our fans will win in Vegas tonight....and that's why we are doing it. There will be a limit of 1 t-shirt per person and stock is limited.
bjorn@sigur-ros.com
** takk tshirts for $1 in las vegas **
as you can see on the news page, tshirts are sold for $1 each at tonight's show in vegas. this does not include limited garments. las vegas showgoers, spread the word!
here is a message from dean, sigur ros's manager:
Re: LAS VEGAS SWAG
The venue tonight charge 30% of our gross. The sales tax is 7% and on top of this there is a new gaming tax of an additional 10%. We, the band, have to pay for the cost of the shirt, the shipping, the printing, our merchandiser etc from the remaining 53%. The obvious and usual reaction to extortionate venue commissions is to hike the price of the shirts which simply serves to hurt the fan and help the venue to earn even more. It's immoral for a venue to earn more from a band's merchandise than the band. We simply felt that by reducing the price of the shirts to a mere $1 the venue might rethink the wisdom of keeping their fees so high when the taxes here are higher than anywhere else on the US tour. 30% of nothing amounts to nothing. Tonight's protest will cost the band and the venue money but some of our fans will win in Vegas tonight....and that's why we are doing it. There will be a limit of 1 t-shirt per person and stock is limited.
bjorn@sigur-ros.com