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Posted Jun. 28, 2007,
An Open Letter From Grizzly Bear
By Shanon Kelley
Grizzly Bear just posted this bulletin on MySpace:
I'm so very annoyed about the state of touring and selling your own T shirts. Essentially here's the deal. I'm MORTIFIED that our T shirts were sold last night for 25 dollars. That's just wrong. But guess what, we had ZERO choice. The venue FORCED US TO SELL IT FOR THAT and to boot they wouldn't allow us to get behind the table and sell it.
Essentially the bigger venues you play the more greedy they become and they start taking 25-35% of your merch. This of course forces bands to sell their stuff for higher. Taking into consideration of course that American Apparel shirts are not cheap and the taxes and screen printing fees and shipping fees. When a venue takes 35% of your T shirt sales you essentially make no money unless you raise the price 5 bucks.