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We made an update to the Audio Damage store today. This will be mostly transparent to you guys, as we added the ability for the store to query the USPS for true shipping prices and apply those to orders that contain mailed goods. The only differences you’ll note are that the “Merchandise” category is now “Hardware,” and in it, ironically, is some merchandise.
The Audio Damage BotShirt and Stickers are now available for purchase. The shirt is $15 plus actual shipping costs, and the stickers are 2 for $2.00, free shipping.
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Excelleeennnt...
Just hope my neck-beard doesn't hide the Bots head.
- Hugo
Hugo - don't look at it as your neck beard descending on to the bot... but rather, the Bot's hairdo ascending up to your face.
Ordered!
I do have a concern though as to whether the Botshirt also comes with a torso hole for my legs to stick out of as I wear it...
any plans to do more of the heroes of early electronic music shirts? i missed out on the schaeffer and derbyshire shirts, but the varese one is one of my favourite tees...
trying to order but i'm unable to access any of the shipping address fields. anyone else experiencing this?
monte
There were Delia Derbyshire shirts?!
And uh, these look pretty cool too! :)
@darklordjames:
It does. CR will back me up on that.
And I am sure it also has holes for that-which-we-are-all-with.
Having received my shirt and stickers, I am relieved to find a hole for my legs. The shirt is also bluer than the pictures make it look, but still a nice color.
It is also bizarre to see a shirt that says "Made In The USA" on it.
That's not as easy to pull off as you'd think. "Made In The USA" is rare in textiles.
Even Lucky Jeans, my favorite all-American brand, are now 95% made in Mexico. But then again, Mexico is basically South United States compared to wherever-the-fuck-East-Bumwad that most shit is made nowadays.
-CR
I know it must be hard, I've spent a lot of time looking for made in the U.S. clothes. God knows I'm not any sort of patriot these days, but I do want to slow our descent into third world status. You've got to put your money where your mouth is. I'm tempted to buy a shirt, even though I'm not much of a t-shirt guy.
I wish some companies would just give a choice and say "this particular line of jeans are made in the US, they're going to cost you more if you're into that". I had no idea Lucky jeans were ever made in this country. The Canadians sort of have that together.
bb
I have 7 pair of "Made In Los Angeles" Lucky Jeans. They cost between $90 and $125 as recently as early last year. Now, they're like $75, and I see 'em at CostCo for $39, but I haven't seen a "Made In Los Angeles" pair in some time. I've been looking, too, because it's time for new jeans.
But as you say, I don't mind paying more. I expect 'em to cost more, because even a minimum wage worker here makes as much in an hour as some tween girl in Mexico makes in a day (or a week.)
-CR
really great that CR took the time to find USA shirts. i try to buy 'merican clothes when possible. for a while i was buying levi's "capital e" jeans which were made in the states, but AFAIK they are discontinued. really tough to find anything in stores, but here are a few that i've tried on or bought over the interwebs...
skinny jeans:
http://www.agavedenim.com/DENIM-FITS-at-Agave-CID233.aspx
http://www.earnestsewn.com/product-styles.asp?cid=210
jeans and shirts:
http://www.matixclothing.com/capitalcollection/
regular/baggy jeans:
http://www.certifiedjean.com/mens.html
carpenter jeans:
http://www.pointerbrand.com/ProductCatalog.asp
biker jeans:
http://www.gussetclothing.com/mendiamgusje.html
work clothes etc:
http://www.unionlabel.com/
khakis:
http://www.billskhakis.com/
formal wear:
http://shop.oconnellsclothing.com/
haven't tried these guys yet, but looks promising:
http://www.allamericanclothing.com/
thx for crankin out USA made products chris, both digital and otherwise...
ed
I second that... Intelligent small business is one thing that will help save this country's ass... And, I'm very much looking forward to the next "utility" pluton... iOS just had to make 'plugin' into 'pluton'!
I'm looking forward to my shirt too, but you have no idea how strange your "american" comments sound to someone outside the USA. Audio Damage produce wonderful objects but I really couldn't care which country they come from...
Cheers-
Rob.
This would definitely be an odd conversation to anyone that lived in a country that hadn't lost a huge manufacturing base in recent memory (e.g. the UK or the USA.)
The general rule of thumb, and this has been true since the mid 80s, but really took off in the mid 90s with NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, is that things that are made here in the US, or in the UK or Portugal (the other two main sources of Quality, as far as American consumers are concerned) are of a far better workmanship than the shit you can buy in China, and of far better materials. This comes with a much higher price tag, though, for reasons that should be obvious.
So we justify what is, for all intents and purposes, a nonsensical purchase (I can buy eight pairs of Mexican-made Levis, with denim made from Brazilian cotton, for what I would pay for a single pair of one of the boutique American brands) with words like "patriotism" and "style." But really, it's the same neurons that make a Euro rack modular seem like a good idea.
-CR
I won't speak to any global USA versus non-USA manufacturing issues, but I have noticed a marked decline in Levi's quality since the manufacturing went to Mexico. I still have a fair number of Levi's 501s made in the US around 1999, and apart from the blown out knees (which happens to all of my pants) they are still holding together. The Mexican made 501s I bought a few years ago lasted a few months at most, and ripped in strange places, usually along a seam, but not at the seam. The fabric just isn't the same quality it used to be.
I have no illusions that Americans are the only people that can make decent jeans (or whatever else). I'm concerned about the people around me having jobs. And the country not going hell. I don't want to move. When I move to another country I will fully promote buying their products.
When companies start making things in China or Mexico, I'm sure they also tell them to make a shittier product, for the same reasons, to save money. The foreign companies don't just decide "hey, let's make ours worse than the American version". They produce the quality they're told to, at the price point they're told to meet.
The last time I was in Vancouver there were "Made in Canada" tags on all kinds of things, and they would mention it in the stores. I needed to buy a guitar case and the only one that would fit was fairly expensive. When I said something about the price the clerk just looked at me and said "It's made in Canada". Fair enough, I bought it. It is a nice case.
bb
Now we've had a William Gibson novel about all this I'm hoping his next will mention Audio Damage.
I'm basically exactly with bongo_x. It isn't some sort of nationalism that drives this behavior. It's a preference for a certain quality of life and the desire for the community I live in to do well, and for me to exhibit my support for that community at the means I'm able to do so. If I were able to run for office, I'd probably do that, but since I can't (various run-ins with my country's legal system, mostly) and I can afford expensive jeans, well...
For what it's worth, I also have never in my life owned a vehicle that wasn't 100% made here. (A lot of the smaller American cars are actually made in Mexico, as it happens.)
But as bongo_x said, if I lived in Marseilles or Tuscany, I'd try to buy things made in France or Italy. It's just proper. Buying local is better for your community, for the environment, and for yourself.
-CR
OK that makes more sense to me now. I bristle when it comes to "I buy American because it is best"- clearly very rarely the case - but support for community, preparedness to pay a little more for local stuff- that is important and worthwhile. Nice one.
Rob.
Well, another aspect to consider is that this is a nation of inventors. Most of the things that people use in their daily lives around the world were either thought up here (airplanes, Levis, television, the internet, rock & roll, Mickey Mouse) or perfected here (the automobile, stock markets, reality television, action movies, pizza). So we have what I think is a somewhat understandable, if not justifiable, snobbery about things in general, and things made here in particular.
This is in no way defending nationalism, of course. Borders are a relic of millennia-old divisions of race and religion, and have no place in the modern world, in my opinion, except to justify the gainful employment of politicians. Just trying to point out _why_ we think the way we do, since it just does not make sense to people not raised here. The only non-Americans that truly understand America are Filipinos and Mexicans, in my experience. People from both of those nations know exactly what we're up to, how to exploit it, and why being an American is both intensely desirable and a cross to bear.
It is also worth mentioning that unlike pretty much every other country in the world, this is a Federal Republic. What that means, in the context of this conversation, is that we not only have an over-arching pride-of-place in the geographic designator "United States," but each individual state (along with the dozen-odd non-states like Guam, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, what-have-you) also has its own semi-nationalist pride. When you deplane in the Portland International Airport, one of the first things you see in the main terminal is a store called "Made In Oregon," which has pretty much what you think it has (heavy on the marrionberries, light on electronics.) I've never seen another state with stores like this, but I'm sure they exist. We have 50 individual sub-countries that we have to keep track of in addition to the Big Mo. It ends up being more of a headache than it is worth most of the time, but every American is conscious of it.
-CR
The "Made In Oregon" thing also carries over to Washington state. At the "Made in Washington" stores (found in the finer malls) you can pick up Applets and Cotlets, smoked salmon, various jams, that sort of thing. I don't think that the stores will sell you Windows 7, Portal 2, Starbucks coffee (not that there is any lack of opportunities to buy this at the mall), books from Amazon, or a 747.
Shirt arrived and I like the intensity of the blue with the color variation in the T it adds a nice bit of texture. Very nice effect.
I really liked the bezerker68 sticker. Super cool.
Thank you Audio Damage.
Levi's are most definitely a disappointment these days.
Thanks for the helpful list edanderson.
Super nice shirt and print! The print even doubles as an automatic bib when my dumb ass spills a drank :D :D :D
http://www.raleighworkshop.com/
Probably the most beautiful handcrafted jeans you'll ever find. All the materials to make the jeans are within a 3 mile radius of the shop.
I was sold on 21oz selvedge denim after I took a spill off my bike, and did a 6' slide on my face and knee. My face was torn up, but my jeans didnt wear through. To this day, many washes later they still don't have a hole in them.
I was mis informed about the 3 mile radius. It's actually 200.
Just got my shirt here in Australia.Another unique shirt for my small collection thanks AD
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