The Creaking Planks are open for business!
Posted: February 22nd, 2011 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Misc | Tags: buttons, CDs, merch | 1 Comment »
Please note: accordion and banjo ukulele not for sale.
Hot off the Creaking Assembly Line ™, one more small batch of approximately 60 copies of that critically lauded album Flogged Round the Fleet, still with its swank original Peter Guindon-designed packaging for the last time — the etched tin case with so many uses (storing a slice of American processed cheese, ten cigarillos, or another band’s CD…) AND a free Planks sticker, to help share your love of our band with whatever bathroom stalls you may happen to encounter in your journeys.
But that’s not all! Just slightly over a year following Daisy Jones-Locher’s excellent lead in this department, the Creaking Planks have an exciting array of pin-backed one-and-a-quarter-inch buttons available for sale at shows (or, hey, talk to us about orders at thecreakingplanks at gmail dot com). I don’t know what the well-dressed hipster is wearing this season, but these are the right cut and style to fit neatly on a hat, instrument case, or courier bag strap!

And if you have any better ideas for button designs, we’re listening! Submit your own images and you could help dress and accessorize an entire cohort of stylish Creaking Planks fans!
Maybe you’re in a band or part of an organization that would also like to be represented in button form? We invested in the equipment (some elements among the Planks have a traditional affinity for buttons and button presses, the start of so many good things — like the Work Less party!) so we might well be able to help you button up. (Magnets also!) If not, we can at least tell you where to stick it.
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