The clothes should be free if they include advertisements.
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Yeah fuck everybody that wants to know where you got a quality shirt!
BIG upvote from me. i do exactly this. especially when it's prominently placed.
i bought a blank product, i want it to look blank. a logo is aesthetically jarrinf, it's like it breaks the plain design.
i even go the effort of buying blank 59fifty baseball caps ans painstakingly use a thread ripper to remove the "new era" logo.
Around 2000 sort of time I bought some baggy jeans with "coca cola" on the back pocket. In the shop I thought this was great. I wore them once then realised why the fuck and I'm wearing these. Never wore them again.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who takes the logos off things!
There's dozens of us!
Dozens!
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I got shit for wanting the dealership stuff debadged off my car. I got what I wanted in the end but having to argue for it was annoying
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I just avoid purchasing clothing with visible branding
I also try to. But those shirts are 100% cotton and a fair bit thicker than what you get from other brands. They remind of pre-enshittified Carhartt shirts. They're kinda hard to pass up over something you can cut off in a minute or two.
checkout shirtspace, or any site that lets you order shirts to print on. They're usually a few dollars each and you can get them in bulk in different colors. Different fabrics, styles, weights, etc. Literally shopping for tshirts by specs instead of look.
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First thing I do anytime I purchase a vehicle is to remove the dealership decal... I should do this with my clothes as well.
The amount of dealership license plate frames I see on cars blows my mind. I could see someone not wanting to put forth the effort in properly removing the decals, for fear of damaging their pant job, but the plate frame is a no-brainer.
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I honestly canβt believe itβs legal. It would be like if Target opened up all your kids toys and put Target logos on the toy inside. The car comes wrapped with plastic and protective things all over them. They literally remove that and stick their own fucking logo on them.
It's completely legal because the dealership owns the car. Same with Target, they could do that if they wanted to.
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One thing I learned from punk rock: it's OK to cut things off your clothes, or sew things on, or attach things with safetypins, etc. In fact, it's encouraged.
I do this with a lot of things too.
I do this or black tape over logos on electronics. Feels so good you look around your house and not see any logos.
Yes, the reason that I put black tape over my electronics is ~~because they're old hulks of shit falling to pieces~~ to hide logos. Yeah, that!
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I'm glad whoever made this did such a good job censoring out the brand, I might have thought it was subtle advertising otherwise.
Yeah, I thought about turning face down, but I wasn't sure it would be clear what I was doing. So, this is how I chose to do it. I did think about the irony.
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I share the same sentiment towards corporate. I'd also remove/conceal big brand logos like this when I can, or I'd shop for things without visible logos to begin with.
I do, however, like to wear band merch. Bands that are just as happy to see me as I'm happy to see them. People I can go and talk to at the merch stand. People who, funded through merch and shows, will have the means to record another album.
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I feel the same about a lot of products, especially cars lately (in Europe). Huge brand symbols and some even light up. What's next RGB? Having a huge brand logo on something feels... cheap.
I feel just as passionate about plastic bags. I make sure never to take the correct one to the store I'm visiting.
Interestingly enough, the German big 3 usually offer debadging in terms of model and engine size as a free option and it seems most people take it unless they want to boast that it's an M5 or something AMG. But that's just to hide that they have a 2.0 diesel I think. Nobody offers their cars without the actual logo though, as far as I know. I suspect most buyers don't want to hide that it's a BMW, only that it's a 520d with an M-sport package rather than an M5.
Did you read the fine print on your purchase contract? They're entitled to that advertising space. They are now legally permitted to tattoo their logo on your forehead.
Good thing you really censored that logo so no one will know it's wranglers you're advertising for in this post.
Well, you're the only one who typed out the name for the search engines to find.
Didn't know how to do this without showing the tag. If I really meant to advertise for them, I wouldn't have censored at all, right?
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