[QUOTE=blockhead]How much money do you save making your own shirts and stuff? Where is a good place to get the supplies?[/QUOTE]

it really depends. paint is normally 3$ so times that my how much paint you buy. Also shirts and brushes. i dont know how much that stuff is cause i found that around the house. Since band shirts are 20$ +/- ur saving a good 15$.

now if you steal the paint and shirts then your saving more. if you do that steal from Wal-Mart. that’s the general rule ive noticed here.

if you buy, buy from Joann’s or Michaels for paint and brushes. dont go to the paint section look around in the kids section its usually there. Target has the 10 shirts in a bundle type deal i think.

/me rasterbates every photo i have, using up a hell of a lot of paper

Why?!

[QUOTE=mullets suk]it really depends. paint is normally 3$ so times that my how much paint you buy. Also shirts and brushes. i dont know how much that stuff is cause i found that around the house. Since band shirts are 20$ +/- ur saving a good 15$.

now if you steal the paint and shirts then your saving more. if you do that steal from Wal-Mart. that’s the general rule ive noticed here.

if you buy, buy from Joann’s or Michaels for paint and brushes. dont go to the paint section look around in the kids section its usually there. Target has the 10 shirts in a bundle type deal i think.[/QUOTE]
stealing from Michaels tends to be easier than Walmart. they have no cameras, no security, no beeping things at the doors.

and also you can make big $$$ at Michaels by finding a receipt, stealing the items listed on the receipt, and bringing those items in with the receipt and returning it all.

Damn good idea.
Edit: Although it is listed in every shopplifting 101 article out there.

Here's some of the patches I made the other day
[url]http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5044/dsc01129pm7.jpg[/url]

Those look pretty cool.

[QUOTE=the-UK-ska-scene]Here's some of the patches I made the other day
[url]http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5044/dsc01129pm7.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]

real nice stuff. also when it comes to patches theres a way of putting cloth on a sheet of paper and running it though a printer. how do you connect the cloth to the paper, cause wouldnt tape pr staples mess it up some how??

o btw to UK-S-S thanks alot for recommending be the king blues...amazing band. my brother got me there cd when in England and i love them. he also saw lightyear in concert, i dont know where though.

[QUOTE=mullets suk]real nice stuff. also when it comes to patches theres a way of putting cloth on a sheet of paper and running it though a printer. how do you connect the cloth to the paper, cause wouldnt tape pr staples mess it up some how??

o btw to UK-S-S thanks alot for recommending be the king blues...amazing band. my brother got me there cd when in England and i love them. he also saw lightyear in concert, i dont know where though.[/QUOTE]
double sided tape or use a glue stick right before putting it in so its stuck on but not perminantly.

[QUOTE=the-UK-ska-scene]Here's some of the patches I made the other day
[url]http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5044/dsc01129pm7.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]
I like the tape one a lot.

ooh i'm rasterbating right now!


it feels so good!

What do you do with the money you save from DIY?

[QUOTE=blockhead]What do you do with the money you save from DIY?[/QUOTE]
i think the thing is most people that do things DIY don't even have any money in the first place :p.

[QUOTE=plebeian scum]I like the tape one a lot.[/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot, I sort of half traced that then went over it in sharpie, then coloured it in with these fabric crayons. Yeah I was really bored one night.


[QUOTE=mullets suk]o btw to UK-S-S thanks alot for recommending be the king blues...amazing band. my brother got me there cd when in England and i love them. he also saw lightyear in concert, i dont know where though.[/QUOTE]

Ah awesome glad you like them :thumb: I really really do. Also it's awesome he saw Lightyear, I did too and they were just as fun as back in the day!

so, ive been living at other peoples houses for the past week so i havent gotten a change to post my new ****.

[url]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0729061215.jpg[/url]
this stencil took forever. i amde it for my friend because shes obsessed with spiderman. heres the shirt:
[url]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0731061642.jpg[/url]

im currently making an mxpx shirt for this chick. i cut it last night. heres the test spray:
[url]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0801062349.jpg[/url]
its just on a pizza box. im going to put it on a shirt though dont worry.

By DYI shirts doesn't that take money from the bands?

Do you download music?

[QUOTE=blockhead]What do you do with the money you save from DIY?[/QUOTE]

i normally end up buying cds and stuff for drums, right now im saving up for a bass. what else would i spend it on??

[QUOTE]By DYI shirts doesn't that take money from the bands?[/QUOTE]

not really cause most of the shirts, i make anyways, are of bands that dont have shirts. i also dont think a band makin 20 cents from a shirt is really goin to give a crap.

[QUOTE=blockhead]By DYI shirts doesn't that take money from the bands?[/QUOTE]
Defiance, Ohio put all their songs they've ever recorded up for download for free on their site.

if a band is truely punk, they shouldn't care if you buy things from them.

[QUOTE=sr800bkBassist]Defiance, Ohio put all their songs they've ever recorded up for download for free on their site.

if a band is truely punk, they shouldn't care if you buy things from them.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, not every band can survive like that. I truly respect the bands that do do that though even if I don't necessarily enjoy their music.

[QUOTE=sr800bkBassist]
if a band is truely punk, they shouldn't care if you buy things from them.[/QUOTE]
If you wanna stay punk, you gotta stay poor!

[QUOTE=Flagjacket]If you wanna stay punk, you gotta stay poor![/QUOTE]
well, you [i]could[/i] get a job.

1) werd, I'm too poor to be able to afford clothes if I don't make them
2) I don't give a shi[size=2]t[/size], most of the shirts I make are of bands that I can't buy a shirt from.
3) Most proper punks are aesthetically unemployable, I don't know about you, but I would hire people with green liberty spikes if I was the manager of Harrods..

I don't look like a punk, but I'm picky about where I work. I want to enjoy my job.

So until then, I sell buttons and tie-dye. Sometimes stenciled things too. I enjoy making them, I enjoy selling them. It all works out.

i'm picky too. i'd probably only ever work at maybe a small coffee shop, CD store, or bookstore.
i also have problems looking "presentable" sometimes, but only because i often let my beard grow too long and have messy hair.

but then again, i never say i don't care about not getting more money from music :p. i had no problem with the concept of my last band making decent $$$ off CD sales.

but when a band acts like they're too "punK' for the corporate lifestyle blah blah blah, i help them along by downloading everything off Limewire and such ;).

if bands had "jobs" then they would never tour and you would never see them. so if their band isnt making them money then they would just be playing locally

[QUOTE=mullets suk]i normally end up buying cds and stuff for drums, right now im saving up for a bass. what else would i spend it on??



not really cause most of the shirts, i make anyways, are of bands that dont have shirts. i also dont think a band makin 20 cents from a shirt is really goin to give a crap.[/QUOTE]
bands make all of their money off of shirts and other type of merch...they dont make much at all from cd sales and shows

[QUOTE=BostonBound988]if bands had "jobs" then they would never tour and you would never see them. so if their band isnt making them money then they would just be playing locally[/QUOTE]
i know plenty of bands who tour for weeks at a time and still have jobs.

to all that care: stencilpunks has been updated

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44 new stencils

Justin why don't you please make a updates section with the new stencils int hem, so that we don't need to search for the new ones. I mean, a folder where you put allt he new stencils untilt he next update or something.