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Hairball
I imagine the facade for that shop will be ripe for vandalism...maybe a Beatles fan (Banksy?) will spray paint a giant green apple on it.
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jbwelda
And better do it soon; I predict it will be shuttered within a year of its opening. Thats a lot of overhead to be covered by the sale of trinkets.
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Plausible.
But I've seen plenty of shops like that which seem to have very few customers and I assume that they are more advertising loss leaders than true commercial outfits.
Not really disagreeing though.
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jbwelda
And better do it soon; I predict it will be shuttered within a year of its opening. Thats a lot of overhead to be covered by the sale of trinkets.
jb
Plausible.
But I've seen plenty of shops like that which seem to have very few customers and I assume that they are more advertising loss leaders than true commercial outfits.
Not really disagreeing though.
Yeah, surely the web is the main place to sell this merchandise stuff, but I guess they wanted to have one such a concrete place to sell it in flesh too. And what would be a better place than their home city, the center of Stones world, and the world famous Carnaby Street. Some tourists might just visit it by accident, thanks to location and out of curiosity, even not being any big Stones fans. A big part of being, like you suggested, more for advertising/brand purposes.
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Agree! I always laugh when people complain about things like $13 beers. If no one bought a $13 beer, they wouldn't be $13. You don't have to buy anything you don't need.
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Stoneage
A beer for $13? That's a bargain in Norway...
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Stoneage
A beer for $13? That's a bargain in Norway...
With corona shadowing me, I get my H****ken beer at home, cool from the fridge, 38 Euro CENTS per bottle ...
By the way, they should make high level security features around Nr. 9. In my 70s Liverpool days, the city gave up placing "Penny Lane" street name plates on the street walls of houses.
The last logo on the upper wall and the sign look very, very tempting
And in that respect I think that some Stones fans are just as bad as some Beatles fans
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Carnaby Street is full of tat nowadays, no? I suppose the Stones’ 60’s connection and that the street was once a fashionable place to be seen, is the reason they’ve decided to open there. Wasn’t Liam Gallagher’s clothing boutique located there, too?
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Torres
They are going the Hello Kitty way!
Or that one: [www.BeatlesStoreLondon.co.uk] .
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They are going the Hello Kitty way!
Or that one: [www.BeatlesStoreLondon.co.uk] .
Makes a bit more sense the Beatles would have a store as they haven't existed as band since 1970, and are still considered the #1 band by most - lots of nostalgia involved
But the Stones - a supposedly still active band...they're becoming sort of like Starbucks or McDonalds...or Disney...or Hello Kitty...
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They are going the Hello Kitty way!
Or that one: [www.BeatlesStoreLondon.co.uk] .
Makes a bit more sense the Beatles would have a store as they haven't existed as band since 1970, and are still considered the #1 band by most - lots of nostalgia involved
But the Stones - a supposedly still active band...they're becoming sort of like Starbucks or McDonalds...or Disney...or Hello Kitty...
I don't think that the 'beatlesstorelondon' is Offical. Actually, make that ... I'm pretty certain that it's not official.
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jbwelda
Do you mean they are just licensed to sell the Beatles merchandise, but Apple or whoever doesn't have a real stake in the store?
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jbwelda
And I suspect as the flagship store is named "No 9", there will be approximately 8 more announced. I hope one opens in San Francisco, just to check it out.
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Well if thats its address, that figures.
But you cannot just go having stores using trade names without agreements. Just isn't done, although I don't know about in England. Certainly not in America, just ask anyone who attempts to run a business with "Volkswagen" in its name. They very soon get a cease and desist letter from high power attorneys.
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On the other side of Baker Street you find this store with some Stones stuff: It's Only Rock'n'RollQuote
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They are going the Hello Kitty way!
Or that one: [www.BeatlesStoreLondon.co.uk] .
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Rockman
It's all Kid's shit ....
Just give us the music ....
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jbwelda
So it has sunk to that, has it? Selling "Brown Sugar" as a candy bar. Wow. Kind of a new low even for the lowest. Hear him whip the women just around midnight. Way to go...maybe they can get a Gold Coast Slavemaster for a mascot.
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