In recent years, New York skatewear brand Supreme has become such an essential brand among hypebeasts that there’s a saying that mindless young’uns would cop anything with the BOGO (as in box logo, ya plebs) slapped on it.
And whaddya know, they did. Supreme’s accessories line included the likes of hammers, alarm clocks, calculators, pillboxes, fire extinguishers and more, and these sold just as well as their threads.
Their ridiculous offerings came to an apex recently when they announced that they would be selling Supreme-branded bricks. Yes, as in literal red clay bricks bearing the BOGO, going for US$30 (nearly S$50) a pop.
It was sold out within minutes, obviously. It is an essential part of your fall/winter 2016 collection after all, in case you’d want smash your brains out in style.
As attested by the hundreds who dropped by the Kanye West pop-up store a couple of months ago (some of whom are are selling the cheaply-made merch online for hundreds of dollars), fuccbois are abundant here too. The fucc-iest of all fuccbois by the name of Andrew, however, emerged on Carousell, and he’s looking to buy Supreme Bricks to build a bungalow at Bukit Timah.
Andrew’s satirical request aside, it is actually possible to build a lit af house our of Supreme Bricks — if you’ve got US$4,704,000. Thanks to a Redditor, his calculations of building a 2400 square foot home came up to a total tally of requiring 117600 bricks. “I then just took the cost of the Supreme brick, I made it 40$ to include the shipping and such. So, 117600 x 40 = 4,704,000,” wrote /u/tamaral36. The Guardian followed up by calculating the costs of making famous buildings (like the Great Wall of Chine) with Supreme Bricks.
That’s assuming if the bricks still cost that much. Right now, it’s going on sale for $1,000 a piece on eBay.
On Carousell however, it’s being offered from $150 to $999, though nobody can ascertain if the sellers are for real or not. But yo, whatever fam, anything for dat BOGO right?
