Please form an orderly queue...

now this really is QPL at it's money-grubbing worst. FFS.

Finally! Forget the demos, Innuendo / MIH Box Sets and the 1971 recording. This is what I have been waiting for!!

QPL only interested in money...never. It`s all about what the fans want.


Time I woke up now ....zzzzz

So...did they just get these off AliExpress? 'Cause that's where I'd look if I wanted to find this kind of junk...

I think your missing the obvious, while there may be some Queen fans who will part with their own money for these, they will mostly be bought for Queen obsessed people by partners/relatives and friends because it is an opportunity to buy them something Queen related that they don't already have.

I mean, probably not too many casual friends at those prices, but definitely husbands looking for something for their Queen loving wives.
I feel these are aimed more at the older fans who have a fair amount of disposable income rather than the spotify generation.

My wife wouldn't want these, but if I saw something similar with a bunch of Beatles or George Harrison motifs, I'd consider it as a birthday gift.

I honestly don't blame them for trying to sell this kind of crap.

People do buy this sort of stuff, often from unauthorized makers who are making money off the band's brand. It's only fair that they try to take their share too. Perhaps it's dumb to make it so expensive to the point it can't compete at all with pirate shit, but it does make sense for them to either sell or license their brand to legit makers.

Not long ago, a Brazilian sunglasses brand, Chilli Beans, which often makes partnerships with huge franchises such as Marvel and DC, released an officially licensed Queen collection.

busca.chillibeans.com.br/busca?q=queen

Silly as it sounds, I bought two. I had a craving for aviators and round glasses for a while. The huge Queen ad on my e-mail caught my attention, they had colors I loved, the price was fair and the tiny Queen references on the frames gave me the final push. Perhaps many regulars on this forum would consider this some silly money-grabbing useless crap if they saw it on the official Queen store, but well, they got this forum regular's money when they made this partnership, and had they not done that, someone else would, as I'd end up buying similar glasses from the same maker without their logo at some point anyway.

I just heard on a podcast last night that someone who worked with Gene Simmons overheard him telling the concert sound people to "crank the sound up as loud as possible because we want to sell those kids some Kiss earplugs".  Queen's not quite there yet.

Haha.  Well I like to think that Brian and Roger are also a bit more humane than Gene Simmons =)