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ASMclothing, short for Altered State of Mind and also known as ASM, is a clothing company located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in September 2005 by James Hagedorn, Chris Arpajian, Kris Wernet and Rob Thompson. The company specialises in quality shirts with original designs, created to reflect the alt-rock and punk sensibilities of its target customers, and grew from an online-only retailer into a stand-alone store in Rocky River, Ohio.
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ASMclothing (or Altered State of Mind; ASM) is a
clothing company located in Cleveland,
Ohio. ASMclothing was established in September 2005 by James Hagedorn,
Chris Arpajian, Kris Wernet and Rob Thompson.
Currently in its third year, ASMclothing has released 4 lines of designs.
While the company originally began as an online-only retailer, ASM has since expanded into a stand-alone retail outlet located in Rocky River, Ohio. The company currently specializes in quality shirts with original designs, created to reflect the alt-rock and punk sensibilities of their target demographic.
ASM got its start and taste in the music industry through the band Driver Side Impact (currently signed to Victory Records). Through tough times between the band and ASM, in the end, they continued to be friends and communicate with DSI stating "...if you guys ever need any help or anything, let us know....".
As a part of the Cleveland music scene, ASMclothing has continued to form partnerships with indie rock bands such as ...And You're Not Invited, Storms in May and Forever in a Day. From the New Jersey area, ASM has befriended record label Blue Duck Records and specifically two acts associated with the label, After the Sirens and Polaris.
As of January 2008, ASM has halted production of designs and all company activity due to breach in contracts with 3 acts they had signed a year ago and when their contract was up for renewal, the bands failed to sign off and repay monies owed. Total monies owed are assumed to be $30,000+. When inclined for comment, ASM commented, they will keep everyone updated as things progress, but as of January, there has been no progress, nor does there seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. They went on to apologize to the customers and bands they represented.
The breach of contracts not only interrupted their design and music divisions within the company, but also stopped and sent their production of an indie film and commercial into "development hell", which as most know, it becomes an uphill battle for such projects to re-arise.
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ASMclothing shows the standard growth path of a small graphic-shirt label in the internet era. It started online only, where a four-person company in Cleveland could sell nationally without a store, and built its identity inside a music scene rather than through advertising: partnerships with indie rock bands, beginning with Driver Side Impact, and with acts including ...And You're Not Invited, Storms in May and Forever in a Day, plus ties to New Jersey's Blue Duck Records and its acts After the Sirens and Polaris.
The product strategy matched that world. Shirts are the natural merchandise of rock and punk — cheap to produce in small runs, wearable at shows, and a moving surface for original artwork — and ASM released its designs as numbered lines, four of them in its first years, the way bands release records. The move from online-only sales into a stand-alone retail outlet in Rocky River added the local anchor: a physical shop in the scene the brand came from. The company's own account of its early years, including difficult periods with partner bands that ended in continued friendship, is the texture of a scene-based business, where the commercial relationships and the personal ones are the same network.
ASMclothing stands for Altered State of Mind; the company is also known as ASM. It is a clothing company located in Cleveland, Ohio.
ASMclothing was established in September 2005 by James Hagedorn, Chris Arpajian, Kris Wernet and Rob Thompson. It began as an online-only retailer and later expanded into a stand-alone retail outlet in Rocky River, Ohio.
ASMclothing specialises in quality shirts with original designs reflecting the alt-rock and punk sensibilities of its target demographic. In its first years it released four lines of designs and built partnerships with indie rock bands and labels in the Cleveland and New Jersey music scenes.