When We Were Young and the merch goes wrong: festival swag plagued by band name misspellings

Author Benedetta Baldin - 22.10.2024

The band names on their recently acquired merchandise had some spelling mistakes, according to several fans who attended the 2024 When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas over the weekend. Furthermore, it’s not exclusive to a single piece of clothing. Fans have begun commenting on the defective merchandise and showcasing some of the mistakes from the items they bought during the event in a Reddit thread. Although additional mistakes on various items of merchandise were also reported, it seemed that two shirts, in particular, were affected by not running through a spellcheck.

Comments ranged from anger to jealousy:

But there is a new development now:

So all’s well that ends in buying more merch.