• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      6 months ago

      Screenprint the notice right on the shirt: this shirt supports Bangladeshi child welfare

      Kinda makes everyone else jerks if they’re buying clothes from makers who could afford their next meal regardless.

  • higgsboson@dubvee.orgEnglish
    89·
    6 months ago

    I always make car dealers take their own sticker or badge off of any vehicle I buy. I usually offer to keep the advertising in place, in exchange for a discount, but they never take me up on it.

      • modifier@lemmy.ca
        30·
        6 months ago

        Hell yeah, brandalism is already too pervasive and just kind of accepted. Good on you.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      28·
      6 months ago

      Funny to see this, because I haven’t bought a vehicle in a long time, but I had the EXACT same thought.

      I grimace every time I see that hideous “CarMax - - -” decal stuck to the actual car body.

      Same with license plate frames that are like “Huge ‘Dicky’ Richard’s Auto Circus Emporium Honda Jeep Lexus - We rub you right!”

      At least those just tell me “the driver is likely lazy or can’t identify a screwdriver.” But an actual decal? Yeah they better take it off, and discount me if they scratch it in the process. :p

      Obnoxious, man.

      • credit crazy@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        At least they aren’t riveting badges onto cars anymore I’ve heard that used to be super common during the 60s and 70s Personally I hate how my 56 bel air has a AAA of Syracuse screwed into the bodywork of my trunk so even if I remove it there’s still going to be a hole in my trunk so I’m personally pretty glad all this branding today are just decals and stickers that can easily be removed with a eraser wheel or plastic blades

  • Addv4@lemmy.world
    35·
    6 months ago

    The irony is that this is often true. I have always preferred shirts that have minimal advertising on them (preferably none, but a dime sized insignia is generally the best you get) but they are notably harder to find and when you do, they are more expensive. The happy medium I have found is looking for used Polo type shirts that were expensive when new, which I can generally find cheaply because collars aren’t a popular look these days.

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      You mean blank t-shirts? Because blank t-shirts are usually a lot cheaper than ones with a logo, and most other kinds of shirts I don’t usually see logos on them but maybe we shop in different places. For t-shirts I used to get them from a screen printing vendor because I liked ha ING multiple different colored shirts and they were usually around like 2-3 dollars per shirt depending on the brand

      • Addv4@lemmy.world
        51·
        6 months ago

        Not bad, but I was mostly referring to brand names, generally with better fabric than just blank t shirts. I have plenty of those shirts that have Pima or other expensive fabrics that I paid $5-20 for a piece used. They are a lot more comfortable, and generally last longer.

  • Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world
    30·
    6 months ago

    My thoughts exactly. I stopped wearing conspicuously branded products when I was in highschool for this very reason.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    6 months ago

    Yeah, that’s why I won’t wear stuff like that

    Now, there’s the adjacent, but not the same thing of band shirts or similar merchandise. The difference is that in theory, the band/artist is going to benefit from the purchase. It is still advertising that I’m paying for, but, because merchandise is often a big income stream for musicians in particular, I don’t object to being their billboard if I like them enough to get anything of theirs in the first place.

    When it’s a clothing company? Hell no. If their label/logo is more than the size of a tag, I’m not doing it. I don’t mind the idea of a trademark/label/tag being present, that’s expected. It’s when the branding becomes the design that it’s a problem.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      71·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I’m fond of the “Tshirts that make a statement” thing.

      It’s personal expression to say “Hey I’m really into this band and I might’ve gone to this concert!” Could be a conversation starter too, and it supports the band or artist like you said!

      But I really don’t understand people walking around with some billboard from a clothing mega-brand. You’re literally paying them to do marketing work for them lol.

      • Moorshou@lemmy.zip
        8·
        6 months ago

        I think they paid me by letting me use their OS for free. Also, why not talk about something I love to use?

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
          9·
          6 months ago

          why not talk about something I love

          Because capitalism! Nothing has meaning unless you get a monetary value out of it!

          I only write this comment because it will get me more only fans subscribers in the long run and one day I can upgrade to selling turbines.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    231·
    6 months ago

    Every so often, I am willing to pay to advertise.

    I just bought a shirt with a vintage PBS logo from the 1980s, which I did not buy from PBS since they aren’t selling it, but I would have paid to advertise PBS from a PBS store if they sold it with the 1980s logo.

    So yeah, I pay to advertise public television- and public radio, since I really need an NPR shirt as well. We also give them money every year. And we get back really excellent journalism, so it’s worth it.

    Now Nike? Fuck Nike. I’d never wear their fucking swoosh.

  • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee
    17·
    6 months ago

    The bougie love advertising for free! You know how many yeti stickers I see on cars? It’s a fucking ice chest…

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    Conspicuous consumption

    In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical. In 1899, the sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury commodities (goods and services) specifically as a public display of economic power—the income and the accumulated wealth—of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, the public display of discretionary income is an economic means of either attaining or of maintaining a given social status.

    This results in what may be known as Veblen goods, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
    161·
    6 months ago

    I even take the badges off my car. Nobody needs to know what brand I have.

    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
      1·
      6 months ago

      I do, so that when I see your car broken down on the highway I know what not to buy. /j

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 months ago

    I admit I buy T-shirts at micro-breweries. I do support those that I actually buy. Additionally, it helps me keep record of my journey of visiting many breweries.

    I’ve even turned some of my collection into a king sized quilt and a lap quilt. So, my shirts are very useful in more ways than one.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      I think it’s different when you’re talking about a small business or a nonprofit or a museum. Paying $20 to advertise things that actually make the world a better place that people wouldn’t otherwise know about is, in my opinion, a net good.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      My biggest collection of branded t-shirts are from my favorite podcasts. But they tend to have some kind of comedic style or logo, rather than a simple bland “The Name Of The Show” printed in block letters across the front.