Saw some guys selling decent looking knock offs in the parking lot for $10 after the show. I cannot vouch for quality though.
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Saw some guys selling decent looking knock offs in the parking lot for $10 after the show. I cannot vouch for quality though.
AngraRULES
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I paid $40 each...bought one for me and one for my son...totally worth it to me. We don't go to a lot of shows anyway.
Harvester
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If you are talking about buying the shirt now or before the end of the tour, it's not the same.
One new tour shirt at their online shop.
Thirteen different shirts at the show.
DuchessOfDork
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Can't wait for Saturday!!! I'll be there with the Thunder and I will be buying my shirt at the show! 
SO EXCITED OMAGAWD
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Exactly...I had a hard time choosing there were so many.
My son got the tour poster shirt and I got the one w/ the Somewhere Back In Time cover since it covers my 2 favorite albums.
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Weird question, but you were there.. did you happen to catch sight of any girl t-shirts? Or girl shirts of some kind?
Pelata
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Not that I recall, actually. Loads of t-shirts, then a leather vest thing, then bandannas, bags, posters, a hockey jersey...don't recall any girl-style shirts.
AngraRULES
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Oh wow. That's a big difference. I was under the impression that Maiden usually gets their tour shirts on their website immediately after the tour legs. Maybe they don't do that anymore?
I just think $40 is an absurd price, but it seems that's the case with bands such as them, Megadeth, etc.
Pelata
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I think I paid $30 for my son's Peace Sells 25th Anniversary shirt last year...
AngraRULES
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Yeah, I remember seeing them at $35 at this year's Gigantour. Crazy price.
Got the same Volbeat shirt a week later for $10 at the CMDistro website. Score!
I will say that Maiden puts out the coolest shirts during their tours though. I love the personalized country-by-country shirts they had a few years ago.
nomisofsiman
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It really just comes down to venue for the most part in terms of T-shirt price. Whenever any artist plays at an arena or ampitheater, it's always a $35 minimum and even a lot of the smallerish venues will have it at that such as theaters opposed to the bands that just play clubs or whatever. I could be wrong, but I believe I heard somewhere that those venues take a much larger portion of the sales, which is probably why the merch is jacked up. Now, Yngwie's an exception. He'll play at the HOB and charge $40 for a shirt.
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AngraRULES
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nomisofsiman
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AngraRULES
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Ok, so real story:
I contacted Yngwie's manager and agent in regards to a couple of things (mainly a tour that he wanted to put together).
A few days go by, no reply. Fair enough. Sometimes people are busy. If they're not interested, I totally understand why they wouldn't respond. Some people simply don't have the time to say "Thanks but no thanks", though it's still the courteous thing to do.
A couple of days later, I noticed that all of a sudden I was receiving every single mailing sent to the people who signed up to Yngwie's E-Newsletter. What the fuck, really? That's what you need to do to get people to see your news updates?
Needless to say, he got another email from me afterwards, but this time, it wasn't about a tour anymore.
jem777az
Bozzman
I believe I remember seeing a pic of at least one that someone posted on the Maiden forums. I'd be shocked if there wasn't at least one.
Metal66
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Thanks for the shirt pricing! I'm hoping there is a special July 4th shirt - I'm sure there will be. Just saw the NYC exclusive shirts on eBay - they were AWESOME!!
