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Memphis, 1977. “Caught in a Trap.” The King, out-lived by his merch by fifty years and counting. Souvenir of the first great counterfeit machine. Wear it: doom-scrolling, dive bars, and staring contests with the algorithm. If someone compliments it, they've passed the test. —spz
That is the whole sum. $16.36 for the item, $4.49 to ship it, and nothing left over — the shop is wired so a sale can never bill the studio and can never pay it either. The book spends twenty-four doors on the line between a signal and its merch, and the only honest way to sell a shirt off the back of that argument is to show you the arithmetic and take none of it.