65: …Merch?
Jeff: Even though these guys have been on tour for a bit now, apparently they still lack some basic knowledge of how things work. So…if you had just seen The Ouro Bros. in action, what sort of merchandise would you be interested in purchasing? Personally, I’m thinking either an 8-track or the home video game for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. Either way, I think cartridges are the wave of the future…
Jeremy: If it hasn’t become readily apparent to you guys yet, these brothers are really kinda making up the whole “being an independent touring band” thing as they go along. It’s fun to amplify some of the inexperience that my own band had in first trying to do our own tours in this comic. We never were without merchandise, but we found out later on that it was best to spend more money up front on it to have more variety, and then recoup while on the road. But the whole idea of spending money we didn’t have didn’t occur to us off the bat. Spend money to make money? What is that? Oh yeah, that’s right – the American way.
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