What are band badges: Things You Should Know

Badges with the rock band logo or names of musicians inscribed on them are known as band badges. Band buttons and badges are quite popular amongst children. Collecting these badges is amongst the main passion of kids in their childhood days. We have all done that as kids. Kids fasten these badges on their school bags, water bottles and somehow stick them to their lunch boxes. They also have games associated to these badges. More the number of such badges a kid possesses the more he becomes the cynosure of the group. These collection competitions often become cut throat at their level, and sometimes even lead to serious fights.

Where to get such badges:

Band badges are sold in the shops and you can also get them online. Few badges are also given as a gift with various products such as corn flakes or chocolates in order to increase their sale. Kids like to put these badges on their hats, teddy bears and other soft toys, clothes and any place they find it may look attractive. There are shops selling these badges according to a particular genre of the band. And the collection starts way back from early nineteenth century bands to as new as Justin Beiber. These band badges can be according to the moods as well. They can be official, funny or wild depending on the mood of the customer. These badges are also incredibly cheap. You can buy an umpteen number of them without feeling the loss of weight in your pocket. Kids buying these badges from a shop often completely fill up their pockets with these badges and they do so because even they are able to afford it.

More about such badges:

Band badges are made of metals or rubber. They are used to stick to fabrics by using pins as well as glue. They can also be magnetic badges. These badges are inscribed with the rock bands as well as movie themes. Sometimes any other topic which is hot amongst people at a place can also become a theme for these badges. Topics like terrorism, sports, beauty pageants, aliens, planets, universes, comedy, rivers, animals, cities, incidents, faces of celebrities or flowers anything which can be intriguing has the potential to become a theme of the badge.

Not only kids but even the teenagers and sometimes adults like to collect and use these badges for several purposes. Creative people use these badges to create beautiful crafts. They also make painting using these badges. They just make a rough sketch initially and then paste or stick these badges on the picture. In spite of using colours these artists use these badges to cover the sketch and decorate it.

Before buying band badges it is very necessary for the customers to check if it is legit or not. It is possible that the inscribed picture is not taken from a legit source and you might fall into some kind of trouble after buying them. So, you should consider this point very well.

John Handson is sales manager of one of the badge manufacturers,he writes many articles about badges.