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Kotaku 
07/17/09
07/17/09
I won't get into the history but know that it is considered a premium brand. Extremely expensive, just like the post mentioned the last Nintendo collaborated t-shirt cost $175.
Resellers were selling BAPE/Nintendo DS lite for $450 dollars and easily into the $600 category in Ebay. It sold out literally within minutes.This for a $130 system with BAPE skin.
Yes, the era of the APE is slowly declining with only the hardcore heads snatching up the merchandise in full. Their cheapest tshirt, threads, are about $60-80 dollars and climbs exponentially in price.
You may cry blasphemy, but it sells and there is a reason it flies off inventory that your puny $8.00/hr wage can't possibly comprehend.
07/17/09
And yup, paid six hundred bucks.
07/17/09
That had better have an attachment to suck my dick for that kind of money. Sorry for being vulgar, but seriously.
07/17/09
I really wish that Nintendo would have teamed up with BBC...as they are quickly becoming the superior label of "Japanese high street' hip hop fashion.
That being said...if anyone is interested in these....Ape T-shirts are usually split into three different price ranges. The limited edition 'collaboration' shirts usually go for $175.
But I am assuming that this new line of shirts will be split between the middle of the road design (IE #7) shirts that go for about $80, and the generic design (IE shirt #4) shirts that go for about $60 - $70.
But what am I saying? The era of Ape is over, and the only people who are going to be buying these are the hardcore ape fans who wear NOTHING but ape....underwear, socks, shirts, shoes...you name it....they even use Bathing Ape condoms....
"Can't Bake that Fape."
07/17/09
I wont be partaking in the wearing of these sins!
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