Ben Brod ie from Hey Ben! So what do you do? Hey! Thanks for mailing. I do a project with Robbie called Second Sight Bootlegs. We started just making boots for bands we liked, but it’s coming into its own thing a bit lately. How did Second Sight start? We were both going through a Manic Street Preachers kick and wanted an old Generation Terrorists era shirt of theirs. They go for dumb money online, so we intended on bootlegging it. Our friend Connor (who runs underascreenstar.com) suggested doing our own original designs in a style the band would have done, as opposed to exactly copying a shirt. We gave it a shot, and as an exercise made a bunch of additional collateral that would have looked the part back then. It really works since it means the vibe and look changes drop to drop, keeping it fresh. We’ve started stepping into video based visuals too which is so cool. Any grail pieces of merch you’d love to own? The Manics shirt in question for sure. There’s one on eBay right now that’s amazingly well kept, but I dunno if I can justify spending a month’s rent on a shirt.
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