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06-19-2007, 10:41 AM | #1 |
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$50 for a shirt?
Businesses await the Pumpkins’ arrival
by Tony Kiss, [email protected] published June 19, 2007 12:15 am e-mail this Print this ASHEVILLE — Five days before reunited alt-rock darlings The Smashing Pumpkins arrive for their sold-out residency at The Orange Peel club, some downtown businesses already are looking to grab business from fans. Limited edition Pumpkins T-shirts are hanging in the window at the Union clothing store at 15 Haywood St., and anyone buying one is entered in a drawing for a concert ticket. Advertisement Union is one of just two stores to carry the $50 Drifter shirts, store employee Bill Morris said. The other location is in San Francisco, where the band will play later this month. “We’ve sold a couple of them but anticipate them going swiftly once the Pumpkins are in town,” he said. With some fans coming from as far as West Canada, he’s expecting Asheville to have “an Olympic village feel” during the band’s nine-show engagement, Meanwhile, Pumpkins fans who might need a spa or pedicure can find a discount at Sensibilities Natural Body Care and Day Spa at 59 Haywood St. The spa will offer a 20 percent discount on products (after a treatment) to anyone holding a Pumpkins ticket, employee Sara Van Ormer said. One of the biggest rock bands of the 1990s, the Smashing Pumpkins will play nine shows over 12 days at The Orange Peel, starting Saturday night. It’s their first U.S. shows since 2000 and is one of the biggest music events in Asheville in decades. Contact Tony Kiss at 828-232-5855, via e-mail at [email protected] from http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770618096&theme=SMASHINGPUMPKINS |
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06-19-2007, 10:45 AM | #3 | |
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06-19-2007, 11:59 AM | #4 |
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Discount isn't even good for a pedicure; it's just for all the shit they're going to try to make you buy after you pay full price for a treatment. Asheville's gonna have to try a little harder to get me to blow even more disposable income than I already am next week.
Any one see any pics of this fancy $50 shirt? Union doesn't even have a website that I can find. Curiosity compels me to check out this luxury garb. |
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06-19-2007, 12:15 PM | #7 |
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you got to be kidding me.. they better sell the same shirt @ the concert
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06-19-2007, 12:29 PM | #8 | |
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06-19-2007, 12:37 PM | #9 | |
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You won't even get a stub? That's fucking American piracy at its finest. Long live the dollar bill! |
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06-19-2007, 12:50 PM | #10 | |
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06-19-2007, 12:55 PM | #11 | |
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if it was something like those Drifter shirts I might even be incited to wear it instead of making something out of it. |
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06-19-2007, 12:59 PM | #12 | |
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Hey, you ownz now! It's too bad those shirts are $50, I don't think I could justify that purchase. BUT ALAS, I won't get one anyway. Steelfaerie, you're going right? You probably mentioned which dates before, but tell me again? |
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06-19-2007, 01:02 PM | #13 | |
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06-19-2007, 01:04 PM | #14 |
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Have fun on my birthday for me (7/2) Think of me just once! While you're there, I will be at this place called Bomber's Burrito Bar drinking a free gallon-sized margarita.... You'll be rocking so hard and I'll be crying from tequila!
(went a little overboard there, I know!) |
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06-19-2007, 03:22 PM | #17 |
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