{"id":88,"date":"2009-11-16T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/11\/the-return-of-fake-band-shirts.html"},"modified":"2009-11-16T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T06:36:00","slug":"the-return-of-fake-band-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2009\/11\/the-return-of-fake-band-shirts.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Fake Band Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In the top navigational bar,<\/span> you&#8217;ll see a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakebandshirts.com\/\">FakeBandShirts.com<\/a>, a little t-shirt site I launched a couple years ago. It sells only four t-shirt designs, each of which I created and each of which are the logos of fake bands with awesome fake names. Because, in my opinion, hipsters like to own gear from obscure bands, and you can&#8217;t get more obscure than not existing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant concept, if I do say so myself. And I do. Often.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the way I set up my initial store with my supplier\/distributor, I was having to sell the shirts at more than $20 in order to make any profit. That&#8217;s too expensive. So I shut down that store in January and have been sitting on the shirts ever since. (Not literally, because that would be totally weird, and after a few weeks, quite unsanitary.) The shirts have been boxed up in my closet.<\/p>\n<p>But not any more. The box is open! I simplified everything and am now selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakebandshirts.com\/\">Fake Band Shirts<\/a> again through <a href=\"http:\/\/fakebandshirts.bigcartel.com\/\">Big Cartel<\/a>, which means you can now buy the shirts using your PayPal account (or credit card) and you can save a lot of money: <span>each shirt is just $15.99<\/span>, plus shipping. Just in time for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wanted to let you know. This is a limited offer because honestly I don&#8217;t have a whole lot of shirts left, and I&#8217;m not sure if I want to reprint them. But I do want to sell the ones I have, and I want you to buy them. Because I like you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakebandshirts.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;width: 365px;height: 369px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_HXZOhc9ASlo\/Sv3itIwHDJI\/AAAAAAAAAV8\/meljAv_JbVU\/s400\/fakebandshirts.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the top navigational bar, you&#8217;ll see a link to FakeBandShirts.com, a little t-shirt site I launched a couple years ago. It sells only four t-shirt designs, each of which I created and each of which are the logos of fake bands with awesome fake names. 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