posted by Brad on January 29th, 2008 in T-shirts

I've been wanting to talk about this since I first learned of it a few weeks ago but I've waited until David made it public first.

It appears that SEIBEI has been ripped off by a company that can't seem to come up with anything original. This company is called Goodie Two Sleeves (I'm not linking them purposely because I don't think that they should get the publicicty), whom you can email here: contact@goodie2u.com

The real kicker is that they've sold these shirts to the mega company, Hot Topic. So, they're probably making a pretty decent paycheck from something they put very little effort into.

As an independent t-shirt designer, this really pisses me off. First off, I've seen every one of their shirts at pretty much all of the other generic "funny" t-shirt stores and now they're going after well respected, hard working people that are actually creative.

If you want to read more, you can check out Davids' blog over at http://www.seibei.com/blog/?p=341. There's a link to contact Hot Topic in the replies over there. Oh, and also, be sure to email Goodie Two Sleeves with your opinion on the matter.

Meanwhile, you should probably pick up the original, and far superior design at http://www.seibei.com/shop/sandino.html.

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