While we specialize in promotional pins for punks, sometimes we just make pins for the sake of pins. At Better Badges we used to refer to these as 'dodgy wind-ups' and one of our customers 'dodgy des' took the genre to new limits and opened "the Badge Shop' in Covent Garden to sell them. Currently in the U.S, we mostly concede the ground to "Ephemera Inc' of SF who have a remarkable repertoire.
1735 welcome to the terrordome
9/9/98-
1484 merry fucking x-mas asshole
9/22/97
1457 i'm never drinking again
4/21/98
1436 real women ride motorcycles
4/21/98
1209 mindless trendy punk asshole
12/2/98
0893 don't call me nigger nigger
7/31/98
0415 you never get rich with taxi
2/1/99-
0350 no justice no peace
1/7/99
0308 i admit it I'm a dick
11/25/97
0270 it's a racist thing i understand
4/21/98
0250 yes i have a boyfriend
9/20/97
0243 fuck me ...i'm irish
7/22/97
0233 mind your own bus.
3/25/98
1675 young popular & sexy
1/20/02 - this was the title of a factory recs promo in the late 80's - pin made to sell at the old Ritz NYC
0506 fuck production values
7/20/95 - made up for our friend johnb of Screen Edge to hand out at the NYUFF
0363 i don't think so
5/25/02 - made in a moment of doubt by joly around 1990
0367 i don't speak english
5/25/02 - some foreigner requested this at the old ritz around 88.
0257 just kidding!
5/25/98 - I'm serious..
0260 ok fine
5/25/02 - aquote from Beaver Truax. Made around 92 just as Clinton came to power - I felt atr thetime that it very much expressed the post-modernist mood of the time.
0368 trouble maker
5/25/02 - altho sold mainly as a H>A>N>D> pin, this was originally made to honor the band around 1990.
0776 let's party
7/14/98 young people these days.. I don't know
0263 too cool
6/4/02 - this was made to sell around 89 or so. We had a run of Irving Plaza shows with 'alternative' bands that attracted audiences who were just too cool for our regular pins..
0264 you can laugh
6/4/02 - this was made to sell around 89 or so. For those same 'cool' audiences that took their music seriously.
0168 hoist
10/26/02 - this was ordered around 92 by Howie, who used to run security at Roseland. Some in-joke I've never quite figured out.
0240 free amy
7/24/2003 - made around 92 to exploit a wave of sympathy for Amy Fisher
0258 you name it
7/26/03 - whatever it may be
1114 witch
7/26/03 - a halloween pin for the Roseland pinstand around 92
0376 life is strange
9/20/03 - an existential pin from the old ritz
0405 so what?
9/25/04 - a headline from the Village Voice sports section around 88
2264 wow!
11/27/01 - who'd a thought?
2606 junglist
7/6/06 - by request
