BLVCK MVRKET

We get that question more often than you might expect.

Yes.

The artwork, blasphemy, strange artifacts, questionable fictional organizations, occult imagery and general appearance that somebody should probably be investigating us are all perfectly legal*.

The BLVCK MVRKET is a real business selling real things.

The Aetherium, however, maintains that all allegations are completely unfounded.

*Always check and maintain your local laws. We sell worldwide. Not one place has the same laws as the next. Be your own judge if it's legal in your area before you purchase. Hold yourself accountable for once.

Think of it as a digital storefront of the Aetherium.

Apparel, artwork, music, objects, artifacts and other strange things from the worlds we create eventually find their way here.

Some things are funny. Some are beautiful. Some are deeply weird. Some are blasphemous enough to make someone's grandmother clutch at her pearls.

We consider this a feature.

The Aetherium is the larger universe surrounding BLVCK.

The stories, music, characters, ideas, artwork and mythology don't exist separately from the things in the MVRKET - they are pieces from those worlds.

The goal is total immersion.

You aren't just buying merchandise inspired by the Aetherium.

You're taking an artifact out of it with you.

Nope!

And that's actually an important part of how The BLVCK MVRKET works 🤙🏻

Most products are sourced only after someone orders them. We work with individual production partners located throughout the world rather than keeping mountains of finished products sitting inside one central warehouse.

Your artifact doesn't need to exist until you will it into existence with your order.

Then we make it real.

Because your order may be coming from more than one spot.

If you order three different types of products, they aren't necessarily sitting beside each other on the same shelf collecting dust. One might be produced in one facility on one side of the world while another is being made somewhere completely different.

That means portions of the same order may have their own production location, packaging, shipping cost, tracking number and arrival date.

We know multiple shipping charges can look strange at checkout, so we would rather tell you upfront exactly why they're there.

Because we don't quietly hide shipping costs inside artificially inflated product prices.

Our goal is to keep the actual price of the products as low as we reasonably can.

Shipping reflects the real-world logistics of getting independently produced items from their individual production locations to your front door.

Teleportation remains regrettably unavailable.

We're working on it....

Not necessarily!

Because different products can be created at different locations and with different production times, your order may arrive in multiple packages on different days - in multiple different ways.

So if one shirt arrives while another artifact is still wandering through your mortal postal system, don't panic.

The rest of the summonings may still be in progress.

YES!

The BLVCK MVRKET is not confined by national borders of man-made lines on a map.

Available products and shipping options can vary depending on your location, and international customers may encounter customs fees, taxes or other requirements imposed by their country.

But if we can get it to you, we'll happily send it across the planet.

Nope.

And there's a reason.

We don't artificially inflate our prices so we can periodically knock 20% off and pretend we did you some kind of f*cking favor.

We keep our prices as low as we reasonably can from the beginning.

Everybody gets the lowest price we can offer.

Every day.

No code required.

No.

We don't offer separate wholesale discounts because we're already pricing products as close to wholesale as reasonably possible for everyone.

You shouldn't have to own a business, order 500 pieces or know the secret handshake to get our best price.

The price is the price. Full F*cking Stop.

Yep! 🏳️‍⚧️

BLVCK is proudly trans owned and operated.

That isn't a corporate marketing campaign or a logo change that happens once a year.

It's simply part of who is behind this strange little universe.

Aggressively.

The MVRKET is for the Gays, Theys & Slays!

Also our CIS Allies, Weirdos, Metalheads, Goths, Witches, Skeptics, LHP, Nonbelievers and anybody else who wandered in because something caught their eye.

You don't need the correct label.

You don't need to look a certain way.

You don't need to believe a certain thing.

Just don't be an asshole.

That's basically the dress code.

Oh, absolutely.

Blasphemy by definition is not inherently offensive.

Ideas must be questioned. Symbols must be reinterpreted. Sacred things can become art. Art can be uncomfortable, ridiculous, beautiful, confrontational or all four simultaneously.

You are completely welcome to believe differently than we do.

That's kind of the point.

Goddess, no.

See something you love?

Get it.

That's enough.

But if you start noticing names, symbols, phrases, characters and ideas appearing across the music, artwork and artifacts...

Congratulations.

You found the rabbit hole.

Technically?

Yes.

But that's not how we think about them.

They're artificial artifacts - physical objects created to make an imaginary universe a little less imaginary and just that much more real.

A shirt can come from a fictional movement.

An album can belong to a band inhabiting another corner of the Aetherium.

A symbol can have a history that never actually happened.

The more pieces you encounter, the larger the world becomes.

No. All purchases are final.

Because most artifacts are sourced and created specifically when you order them, we do not maintain a traditional warehouse of inventory that items can simply be returned to and placed back on a shelf.

Please double-check sizes, variants, colors, quantities, shipping information and your general commitment to the artifact before completing your purchase.

If something arrives damaged, defective, or you receive the wrong item, that's different- contact us so we can determine what happened and help make it right.

But otherwise, once you've summoned it...

It's yours.

Excellent question.

There is exactly one artist behind all of this.

The artwork. The music. The MVRKET. The Aetherium. The designs. The products. The lore. The emails. The customer service. The increasingly questionable decisions that led us here.

All of it.

So when will you hear back?

You probably have a better chance of accurately predicting the end of the world.

We will probably not respond to 99% of all mail due to bots ruining that for everyone.

If it's been a minute, don't assume you're being ignored.

The apocalypse may simply arrive first.