we don't
sell stuff.
You came to the merch table and the merch table is a mirror. FABLE MVP is the
merch department of OWNER/OPERATORS,
and the merch department has one product, and the product is you, with a
squeegee.
No drop. No restock. No "limited edition" of the same hoodie forty other bands printed at the same place. We're not going to sell you a t-shirt with our logo on it so you can be a walking billboard for a band you already paid to see.
Go be a punk and make your own.
Here's the deal. We give you the designs — real 1-bit art, black ink only, built to burn onto a screen or slap on a wall. We give you the screenprinting instructions and the wheatpasting instructions. You bring a shirt your cousin left at your house and the nerve to ruin it.
Put our name on it. Don't put our name on it. Put your own band on it. Cross it out and write something better. The art is yours the second you take it — no attribution, no license, no lawyer on retainer. The only rule is the obvious one: don't sell it back to us.
the three steps to fable mvp “merch”
- Steal a design. Pick one off the designs page. Download the file. It’s black-on-transparent and built for exactly this.
- Put it on a thing. Screenprint it onto fabric, or wheatpaste it onto the side of a building that had it coming.
- There is no step three. You’re done. You made merch. We didn’t take a cut. Nobody emailed you about shipping.
Because the most punk thing a band can sell you is the instructions to not need them. Because a scene that prints its own shirts is a scene that can't be bought out. Because the markup on a $32 tour tee would make a landlord blush. Pick whichever reason offends you least.