AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

[mooseman]

 this guy came in yesterday with 4 tee shirts on plastic hangers. He has a band wants shirts for his band or a gig or a battle of the bands I am not really sure exactly what he wanted. The design was all text , multi text styles with multi band names spot color red & white back white front simple stuff but a ton of way out text styles in typical rock band styles

we ask questiions he says
"i got these shirts from my last shop , I don't like them, there are a lot of problems including some wrong band names"
the fonts are not quite right blaw blaw blaw......I want something better

Q We ask how man shirts .......... A about 50
here is where it starts to go south
Q Do you have the font names... A no man i don't have the fonts . i am a musician not a computer guy, i will get you the new band names and you can just copy the fonts off the shirts .

We say man that is a lot of fonts and you just said some of them are not right besides you can't copy fonts off tee shirts and make new names for new shirts.
He says the last shop did it why cant you "she" ( the previous printer I guess)  copied fonts of the shirts we had before these and printed these shirts.

We say man i can't create 6 to 8 font styles for you I will give you some web pages where you can pick out the fonts you like we can set up you shirts fron there. He says....look man i am a musician, i don't even have a computer why can't you just copy these fonts like she did. i do want to see the stuff that is going on the shirt first because these (referring to the shirts ) are not right she screwed up on some of the names and this font looks like crap ( referring to a font the looked like someone scanned off a shirt and reprinted off a jpeg file)

Look man I am a screen printer we don't create fonts we down load them. If you want to front us $30.00 per font at 8 fonts that is $240.00 up front before we start anything else we will go into the internet and find thoes or similar fonts for your shirts .

He says man i am a musician, I pay cash up front and I don't have time to get the fonts and i don't have a computer.
we ask doesn't someone in you band have a computer..... he says man i am a musician, I pay cash up front and I don't have time to get the fonts and i don't have a computer.

we say man we can't help you ...he collects his shirts pissing and moaning about how he is a musician and all he wanted was some decent tee shirts and if i don't wabt to do them then he will just go somewhere else....AND THE BAND PLAYED ON  again somewhere else again I am sure

[JayzTeez]

Wow is all i can say.

[tpitman]

For all of his "hey, man, I pay cash up front" I see he didn't jump at the opportunity to "front" you the $240 to find his friggin' fonts to get the ball rollin' 'cause he's like, a musician, man, and he doesn't have a computer . . .
But ya gotta like the "hey, man, just get the fonts off the shirt" . . .

[whitewater]

man....

[Command-Z]

He will go to the next printer and tell them that the last printer he talked to (that would be you), told him he could do it and for less money!

[Dottonedan]

I'd imagine that sounds like a typical week. I'd bet that If that doesn't happen several times a month, your not doing enough business. LOL.

[screenxpress]

Well here's some real musicians.......Tenacious D From HBO......Caution language

Catch Phrase - "I'm a writer" just stuck with me after "I'm a musician"

Tenacious D - Tribute (long version)

[beanie357]

And this guy is different from the rest of the sphincters how?

hee hee hee good story.

[mooseman]

And this guy is different from the rest of the sphincters how?

hee hee hee good story.

he thought his sphincter didn't stink

[screenxpress]

My son introduced me to Tenacious D about 7 years ago. 

That's Jack Black before his arrival to Cinema. 

Some of them are simply hilarious.  Here's a classic - (again Language warning even though this stuff was all on HBO) -

Tenacious D on Jesus Ranch - HBO Series

[prozyan]

I've been waiting for the obligatory "Looks like Shawn got a new customer" comments.  You guys disappoint me.

 

[screenxpress]

Ya know.......you could be right. 

Mike and Shawn are both in NY.....but not exactly down the streets.....

[mooseman]

Ya know.......you could be right. 

Mike and Shawn are both in NY.....but not exactly down the streets.....

Yes we are both in NY about 45-50 apart , he is city i am sticks
mooseman

[hazeremover]

 

Look man, I'm gonna have to like, ask you to leave my shop man.

[screenxpress]

I don't know if you ever watched Tenacious D or not, but what you posted reminded me of an episode (I could not find) where JB and KG are in a record shop with the really grizzly and bearded proprietor.  JB and KG are acting like they are waiting (pens in hands) to give autographs.  The only problem is, they don't have the proprietor's buy in.  So the guy behind the counter says "Look guys, if you're not gonna buy anything, you're going to have to leave".  It was hilarious.