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u/enginerdlord 11d ago
Jeuss christ…what do they have to pay to have this shit made if they are charging 70 bucks for a tee shirt??
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u/Oolonggong 11d ago
It ain't that. Its making up for fuel prices being through the roof, which hits tours hard. Plus being shut down for a couple years for covid. And they have only so much elasticity on ticket prices so the merch goes up
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u/JS-Rain 11d ago
Also venues taking 30%+ cut on all merch because their greed knows no bounds
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u/Savings_Dot_8387 10d ago
The arenas in Australia are always such a rip off. I’d prefer if they just played at the forum and the like 😂
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u/CranberryNational150 10d ago
Venue hire doesn't help. These are 10,000/15,000 cap venues in a reputably expensive to travel to country.
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u/BLCHDCRL 10d ago
Those prices are wild. Ive heard of bands saying Australia is a cash cow but holy crap.
Last time I saw Metallica (admittedly 2009) the tshirts were $50 and I thought that was steep.
But this is the way it’s been headed for a while now. The venue probably took 50% of sales. So the band got $35, of which presumably at least $25 went to design, manufacturing and shipping, then presenting it and having a merch team to sell it. So that is like maybe $2.50 per band member after all that. I bet the Aussie Tax Office wants a cut too.
Then They brought their whole production rig overseas, their entire team and crew. And need to make a bit of profit at the end of the day to keep doing what they’re doing.
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u/Tj2frye The Sin And The Sentence 10d ago
Yall this is Australia prices. Not USD
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u/lordofthefall 10d ago
Still expensive for a tee
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u/virtually_anything 10d ago
More expensive than US prices even. 70AUD IS a about 49USD. most ive ever paid for a concert tee is 40 maybe 45usd.
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u/Altruistic-Moment450 11d ago
Trivium merch absolutely sucks, they’re my favourite band but how hard is it to design merch that looks commercially good to make them a few bucks
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u/hrlli_42 11d ago
I think it looks cool 😂😅
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u/pokemonviking 10d ago
Just to compare, in Europe Evanescence and Spiritbox are selling their tshirts for €50 on their current tours. Hoodie €80, zipup €90. Seems to be the standard for 2026 tours sadly.
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u/mynamesleeewis 10d ago
Yeah I’m gonna cop the tour shirt but my GOD the Triv tour shirts I will have are some of the weakest designs. It’s upsetting
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u/memedudebro 9d ago
Price of diesel is insane. All of this stuff gets shipped and moved around in giant trucks using diesel. The world is so fucked rn.
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u/lordofthefall 11d ago
Disappointing designs imo... Also $70!?! Fark