As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
In 1996 or ’97, shortly after we moved “Floydian Slip” to Champ 101.3 in Burlington, Vt., we made available the first official “Floydian Slip” T-shirt.
The shirts were the poster-child for do-it-yourself. If memory serves, we started with a hammer logo found somewhere online, and mocked up the type using MS Publisher and a freeware font that recalled those ubiquitous Dymo labellers from the ’70s. We might have even printed the component parts out on paper and pasted them up full-size.
A local screenprinter pumped out several dozen of them in canary red ink on white shirts, and we started selling them at floydianslip.com — we registered the domain Sept. 11, 1996 — for $15.95.
Web commerce was still pretty new, and taking orders through our website with credit card payments was considerably above our heads. So we required people print the order form and snail mail it along with a check to our post office box.
A surprising number of people from all over the globe mailed in their orders, and we ended up selling a couple hundreds shirts before demand seemed to begin to peter out several years later.
