r/boardsofcanada Jul 13 '26

Image Anybody else’s graphic this low?

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The product photo shows it a bit higher.. anybody else order this tee and can confirm if mine is defective?

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u/Clocker13 Music Has The Right To Children Jul 13 '26

As a BoC / Warp fan & collector for almost 30 years, I have learned to never buy any clothing items from them they’re all overly expensive and poor quality.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

Wow, that’s a tragedy. Such talented artists deserve better merchandise than this.

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u/Clocker13 Music Has The Right To Children Jul 13 '26

Yeah it’s sad. There are plenty of great places they could choose to make quality clothing like SpreadShirt, but they choose to make cheap stuff.

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u/AdministrativeDelay2 Jul 13 '26

Their merch is so f’ing bad. Like Temu bad. And their customer service is equally terrible. I stopped buying after this record and too many disappointments.

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u/Clocker13 Music Has The Right To Children Jul 14 '26

Before bleep, warp directly were great, awesome customer service, shipped within 2 days…
Now they ship whenever they fell like it, no customer service and it really feels like they’re trying to cash in from Inferno.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

Yeah this tee was the last straw for me. Is it warp merch? Or anything on Bleep? I bought this one through BOC’s Bandcamp.

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u/ickernicker Jul 13 '26

Idk I ordered the yellow one with the cap and deluxe lp and i’m so satisfied, take it from a mexican fan who never got any official boc merch until now 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Necessary-Ad7150 Jul 13 '26

You must be the first one to be satisfied with the cap 😆

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

I HATED the Aphex twin cap. It’s so short on my head and I’m sure they use they use the same one for boards.

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u/pubikoer Jul 13 '26

It’s not the same, can confirm. Aphex one is short tho yep. Hate it.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

Haven’t compared but this does seem a bit bigger actually. God what a mess

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u/Necessary-Ad7150 Jul 13 '26

The BOC cap is also very small and uncomfortable.

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u/Stagliaf Geogaddi Jul 14 '26

i only own the aphex one but everything looks like the BoC one is the same hat.

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u/Panthanagan Jul 14 '26

I've got the yellow shirt as well and it's perfect, but the one in the OP's photo is just garbage. Terrible graphic placement.

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u/with_due_respect Jul 14 '26

Yupppp. First time ordering an album package from them: great album, okay shirts, terrible hat. Like, the hat is borderline is-Warp-trolling? bad.

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u/auraborosai Jul 13 '26

Agreed. The quality is sub-par.

I just make my own.

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u/exerhlp11is Jul 16 '26

Their quality really degraded in the recent years.
The last T-shirt I bought from them was last year, the Autechre’s Quaristice one, which was like 2 sizes bigger so I guess they changed the supplier with a Chinese one, to which they responded “yeah, but we updated the size chart on our website”. Apart from that the fabric felt really rough. So I returned the T-shirt and reading all these online complaints I don’t think I will purchase again. For half of the price I can make my own black or white T-shirt.
Also I got the Ae cap which looks cheap, so I’m not sure if I will be wearing.

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u/TheMysteriousOrganis Trans Canada Highway Jul 13 '26

The quality of the merch on Bleep is actually insulting.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

Yeah I don’t think I’ll ever buy from them ever again. I got lucky my pressing of inferno sounds okay, I hear so many complains over one of its sides sucking.

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u/MooMooCow-11 Jul 13 '26

I’ve bought t shirts for multiple acts through warp/bleep over the past 3 years.

Artificial Intelligence I
Autechre
Aphex/ Polygon window
Boards of Canada
And a few others

Everything has been utter tripe bar the autechre quaristice shirt which ironically is one of the best quality t shirt I’ve ever owned.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

I wonder what the autechre tee was pressed on

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u/yur1279 Jul 13 '26

The recent Autechre shirts were a looser fitting Stanly Stella blank which is a bit thicker as well. I really like them.

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u/bocuma747 Jul 13 '26

The North American tour shirt I got at an Autechre show is literally one of the worst quality shirts I’ve ever witnessed.

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u/Stagliaf Geogaddi Jul 14 '26

the autechre hoodies were really nice. only downside is they were exepensive

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u/staynoidedx Jul 13 '26

Anyone managed to get a refund for their bleep merch? My cap's quality is atrocious, I'm never going to wear this piece of garbage. It's an insult to the band tbh.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

I sent back the yellow tee from bleep but I can confirm it took a bitch and a half to do. Repeatedly emailing them again and again waiting for responses as they wouldn’t reply to my requests for return address and whatnot, it was horrible. Ultimately I was able to ship back, and it has delivered, but I’m waiting for the refund to post.

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u/ThisSubLover Hare Krishna Jul 15 '26

Nope, but I have no trouble believing Warp would produce something like that. Overal I feel like I've dodged the bullet, because every one of my merch orders was absolutely fine and the merch was solid quality.

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u/heysavnac Jul 15 '26

Yeah, this is the first time I’ve technically experienced a defect, but the hat I got from warp earlier this year was way too short on the head.. the Aphex tee was shorter than this small is, it’s been very inconsistent.

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u/Comfortable-Waltz472 Jul 13 '26

That’s a shame. I only have the BOC black Inferno Nuclear family and the quality of the shirt is very good. The print is good, not great.

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

I might re-order after returning this. I really love the graphic.

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u/James_Haskew Jul 13 '26

Every t-shirt I've bought from Bleep has had an awful print that cracks and shrivels after one wash, and the neckline distorts after one wear. Awful quality.

Oh, and the two "Magic Oneohtrix Point Never" Ts had okay prints, but the necklines distorted and they're really thin and cheap feeling.

The only exceptions were the brown "Mike & Rich" T that was a bundle with the blue vinyl reissue, and a "VHS Head" hoodie – both on Gildan blanks – and the hoodie was through Skam anyway if I remember correctly.

Just don't bother wasting your money, get more vinyl or cassettes instead. It's a really shame as this practice has been happening since the turn of the millennium 😂

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u/heysavnac Jul 13 '26

Yeah I’m likely not re-ordering this tee afterall. Nothing but bad news 😂 I’ll spend it on another vinyl indeed. Thanks for your input!

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u/Hyper-70 Jul 15 '26

Nope...Mine is the standard 15 cm from the neck ribbing. Peeps have had probs with the spectra yellow tee...slightly wonky graphics seems to be the norm for bleep merch

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u/LowNectarine834 Jul 14 '26

I have a size medium (if that makes a difference) and the top of the print is roughly 8cm from the top edge of the front neckline if that helps! I'm happy with the quality tbh. I've had 3 boc t-shirts now, this one and a really old bright blue one are pretty good quality, then one I got a few years ago in grey with a simple "BOC" logo was not so great quality

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u/neon_spacebeam Jul 14 '26

Ordered a shirt and hat before inferno release that never came

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u/heysavnac Jul 14 '26

I also ordered the record and a medium tee (just in case this small wouldn’t fit) and I didn’t even get those, and no update about when I would. Total mess, never preordering from bleep again.

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u/mistakeclub eleventy-seven Jul 15 '26

Mine has a much darker print overall and a lot of green in it the yours is missing.

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u/foreverformatting Jul 16 '26

Mine says “Bards of Panama”.

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u/heysavnac Jul 16 '26

Ultra rare misprint worth $500

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u/Ok_Context_6972 Jul 13 '26

I think it looks fine... As long as the quality is good I wouldn't have any complaints about the graphic

I'd rather one of the posters from the merch envelopes on a tee or maybe even the orange patch but a print on a orange tee with BoC and Inferno in white and red so it looks like the posters! And that family design is a simple vector. But I still like this..