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Some of us (mainly me) have been thinking on the idea of making some composer based t-shirts...in a "band t-shirt" format, essentially.

I thought we should take this discussion here to the guild to see if anyone would be interested in getting involved in this type of project..or being a customer. For further information, here's the topic that it started in:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8725477&page=3

(Check pages 3 and 4)

In case anyone is wondering...I do have a few details worked out.

I've talked to a few people already who've said they would buy the shirts. I intend to continue probing the potential audience/customers at various message boards to get an idea of what kind of starting selling base we would have. I also feel that

I should also note that one of the people who said he would buy one is a site programmer and he agreed to throw a site our way at some point, if we could find a host for it. He also said we could work out arrangements for advertisement on a site he's designing as of now (it's a metal webzine that will also expand into other areas...in the section of music reviews at least), so we would have some decent advertising.

Comments, business proposals? xp

Are you kidding?! It was my idea! biggrin ! I don't know how much help I'll actually be with the business part of it, but I'd be willing to help in any way. I wonder how much silkscreens cost. I'd love to have one jsut for the hell of it but if could make some money that would be awesome as well.

What we need is some good market research and some investment, as a pillow.

Or, we could get that later.

Aye, I do. I'll be willing to make the first investment in shirts, however, I think it would be better if we had people from here in different states or countries selling, too. So we could have them available to ship/sell to locals from various areas, you know?


Yes, it would be better. I'm planning to do a bit of "probing the market" so to speak on a few message boards, I was just waiting for a response here, first. I'll post up the results. Now it's just a matter of figuring out which boards are worth probing....if anyone else is interested in probing some of the various boards they go to, feel free to. Perhaps ask around locally, too. I would do that...but, at this point, it's utterly pointless for me to.

Sure, let me know. I still need to check on message boards, though..for the polling of the audience, you know. I haven't got time yet. >_<

Another idea I had would be to buy some liscensing rights for concert performances. You know..like symphony performances in the area, if your area has seasons.

Our symphony has a gift store -- It's pretty lame, though. Lots of oversized clothing for old people and tacky treble-clef accessories. They had a couple stretchy shirts one time that had musical notes on them, and I tried stretching them, and in between the folds they said "Jesus." It cracked me up and I told the gift store lady and she was horrified.

So -- that's just a little aside -- I think that it would be really cool if there were more items that were geared toward a younger audience, because it's really a turnoff to young people who try to come to the symphony that anyone under about 60 makes up about 5% of the audience. Of course, this leads back into the "keeping classical music alive" toping that I had in the C/J/B forum, so I'll stop.

It's a good idea, though.

I HIGHLY suggest that everyone check out the links mentioned, as with the exception of one (at an extremely slow forum) there's been a good to great response for pretty much all of them.