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While cleaning out Paul's cupboards, we found no less than TWO DOZEN band t-shirts. Has anyone else ever come that close in obsession?

And while we're at it, what do you think of band shirts? Cool self expression of your musical tastes, or desperate bid for indie cred by assocation?

What are the best and worst band shirts that you own?

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TWO DOZEN band t-shirts

I meant... TWO DOZEN *PULP* shirts.

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two dozen Pulp shirts? Nothing but Pulp? I mean, I like Pulp but how many Pulp shirts could there possibly be in this world? I used to have one but they only had it in XL so I like swim in the damned thing, so I never wear it.

Band shirts are cool if you like the design and all, I don't see how it's a bid for indie cred (you're assuming that they're indie shirts! I have a Madonna t-shirt!), but like...here's the thing. They said this in PCU, but I thought it true before that and I think it true now: you're going to the concert - you do NOT want to be the guy wearing the t-shirt of the band that's on stage. That's just totally weak.

I have a Pulp shirt that's far too big, a Madonna shirt, and a Manics shirt. That's it, unless you count my Josie shirt. The best one is the Josie shirt, but if that doesn't count I'll just go with the Manics shirt cos I like them best.

― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All early 90s stuff, Cool As Fuck, the James flowery shirts *cringe* Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Mega City 4, Back To The Planet. At the time my favourites were Blessed Ethel, which was embroidered unlike all the other cheapo prints and also Cud and Blaggers I.T.A. - I owned *all* of each of their shirts.

I wouldn't wear one now, but I don't really wear tshirts at all. Thinking about getting some done for September touring, though.

Once I was walking through Barnsley on a crowded Saturday afternoon wearing the Anti Nazi League t-shirt that Rage Against The Machine did, when they headlined the Brixton show (92? 93?) and five smartly- dressed men surrounded me, without touching me, walking alongside me the direction I was already going. They stayed like that without speaking for about 5 seconds, then one said: "never wear that t-shirt again here or we'll kill you." and then they walked away.

― chris, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it not the case that Mr Dan Perry buys five Cure T-Shirts PER CONCERT??

― Tom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You heard me, two dozen Pulp shirts. Unbelievable, eh?

I have, erm... well, I used to have 4 Bauhaus shirts, 2 L&R shirts, and 1 Tones on Tail shirt, back when I was young and foolish.

These days I barely have any, and those I do have are promo freebies. I have 3 Dandy Warhols shirts, but I got 2 of them for free from the record company, and only 1 fits me. Poo. And I have a free Blur shirt from the same record company. I have a Primal Scream shirt that I got for £5 from a tout.

I have *always* wanted a Spacemen3 shirt, but I've never found one the right colour in the right size (sorry, I can NOT wear yellow). I want the dark blue one with the silver 3-pyramid logo, but it doesn't come in any size smaller than "dress".

I actually do think they're fine, if you genuinely love the band in question, and if it's a cool design. (and you don't own *20* of them) But I *hate* when you go to a gid, and you see people that look like they have deliberately picked the most obscure band t-shirt for the genre possible. They have such a bad reputation, because the ones you mainly see are the Marilyn Manson and Korn variety. I sometimes wonder if it's a bit pathetic for someone my age to still wear band shirts. But then I think "ah, screw it. I'm too old to care!"

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was very sad this weekend as I threw out my extraordinarily raggedy Sisters of Mercy, TKK, Orb, and Consolidated t-shirts, along with two of my Cure t-shirts.

Fortunately, I still have one Photek, one Underworld, one Lamb, one Orbital, one Curve, SIX Prince, and I have no idea but probably TWELVE Cure shirts left.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic. Without them (and generic sportswear brandshirts), me and the rest of the nation's indie youth would have nothing to wear (and those silly pornstar things. They are like so 1999). They also let you keep up with what the world is listening to. Like the other day I saw a ten year old in a Slipknot shirt. And looked like they made them in his size too. WTF?

ANyway, Where's dy'all get them? If you don't want one of the 4 "Korn Rocks" shirts they sell in Virgin, there's absolutely nowhere round here.

― Graham, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So Kate, does that mean you're looking to get rid of the pulp shirts? I know someone (namely me) who is accepting donations...

I have a few. The big baggy ones make a nice night shirt, and the rest are nice to wear on the rare occaison I'm not at work. I only have one pulp shirt, one stereolab, one spiritualized, a v.old radiohead one that is embarassing to wear but comfortable, a couple of smiths shirts and 2 menswear & mansun shirt that my sister gave me -- again, kind of embarasssing but comfortable, good to do housework in.

― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, if you have any size small Pulp shirts, I'll take one off your obviously overburdened-with-Jarvis hands...I need a size X-Small or Small though, no one ever carries those :(

― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bands:
Band of Susans: Hope Against Hope x 2 (one v.faded); Mood Swings x 1
Breeder: Hag
Throbbing Gristle: Relax with TG Regular/A Riot of Laughter and Entertainment*

Labels:
New Alliance Records
Argo: Tomorrow's Music Today**

Historic Tours:
Riot Grrl "Totally Grrl Powered", with the cute kiddy pic of a cat's face

Magazines:
Select
JazzFM The Magazine Big John Patton Let 'em Roll
Obviously millions of Wire promo Ts of all eras.

General:
PUNK FUCKING ROCK

*Sadly I am too large to wear this. In my defence, I think Kate Moss is too.
**On the back: Balanescu Quartet, Gavin Bryars, Graham Fitkin, John Harle, Aaron Jay Kernis, Robert Moran, Michael Nyman, Piano Circus [etc...] Never worn. I shall don it for Ben Wats*n's next book launch and give him apoplexy.

― mark s, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to point out that I only bought five Cure T-shirts at one concert once, thank yew very much. (Once I bought four, another time I bought three, last concert I only bought one... it fluctuates depending on how rad the designs are.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan:Totalled up, how many Cure shirts do you have?

My sister must have at least 12 Oasis shirts, she even went and saw the frickin' Black Crowes tour just to see them again and get another one.

I'm just wondering if Paul is the record holder for band t-shirts or if someone can trump 12...

― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Three: one short-sleeve black Dismembermnet Plan with orange cherry on front; one long-sleeve green "fast forward" D-Plan; and one ancient, disintegrating Pink Floyd 1994 tour shirt. I would like more though - I'm just too lazy to order ones for bands I like and there are never shows here.

― Josh, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan:Totalled up, how many Cure shirts do you have?

I'll have to let you know tomorrow. I was trying to count them in my mind and realized that I couldn't keep all of them straight. I think I should get some food...

― Dan Perry, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Skinny fit band t-shirts can be classic (especially my Spice Girls t- shirts and my U.G.L.Y Daphne & Celeste one)

Enormous tentsized Elastica tour T-shirts worn by scruffy indiekids: Dud

Dodgy 80s metal t-shirts as worn by Nick Cotton: Dud

T-shirts worn to gig of band on t-shirt: Dud Dud Dud

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually had about 14 Pulp shirts, but two were stolen. One was stolen from my laundry at college, and another was stolen by an ex. Grrrr! But hey, there's nothing wrong with owning that many shirts. I bought a lot of them for the cool designs, too...

― Paul Strange, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Noooo. C'mon, band t-shirts? Really, if you're over the age of 25 and still wearing a band t-shirt then you need to take a long, hard look at your life. Especially if it's a LONG-SLEEVE t-shirt. They are pure EVIL and unsightly.

Okay, I had a few as a teenager. Mostly usual suspect indie bands: Smiths, New Order... I had a Housemartins 'Five Get Over Excited' shirt, which I wore IN PUBLIC! And a Wedding Present one, I now remember, it had the blue WP flower logo in the centre.

But I only ever bought ones that had an image that I liked, I wouldn't buy one to just merely show band solidarity.

Ah, oh no - I've just remembered I *did* have three LONG-SLEEVE t- shirts: The Young Gods; Faith No More 'Angel Dust' (nice birdie image!) and a horible, white 'Generation Terrorists' shirt which even had a replica of Richey's flower tatoo on the shoulder. Dunno how I got hold of *that*. I certainly didn't wear it often.

A minor favourite was a Headbutt t-shirt, mainly because the image on the front (two hammers in relief) was quite subtle.

And that is absoloutely it. And, other than an ex-girlfriends Prodigy logo t-shirt that's still knocking about, I no longer have any band t- shirts in my 'wardrobe'. Cos band t-shirts, on the whole, are DUD!

Oh, and the wearing of a band t-shirt to the bands gig is a Dud of the Dudmost.

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha. I am 23.

― Josh, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two Smiths T-shirts and a Joy Division one. All bought ages ago. I will never buy another band shirt as long as I live...probably.

― DG, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a huge collection of band shirts from when my boyfriend worked for Roadrunner Records. So mainly lots of angry metal band tshirts that I wear around the house on weekends, and sometimes out in public if I am in the mood to thoroughly embarass my children. I also have Kiss long sleeved t shirt circa 1978. From the classic movie PCU: "You're going to wear the t-shirt of the band that's playing? Don't be that guy."

― michele, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Used to proudly wear the Meatmen T-shirt w/ cover art to We're the Meatmen and You Suck album. And wondered why I wasn't getting laid. Also owned Swans, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Naked Raygun, Nirvana, Suicidal Tendencies. All late 80s purchases, all long since purged from my wardrope. I think on turning 20 I decided band T-shirts were the epitome of uncool, or at least more of a teen thing (saddo Pulp fans excepted, o'course).

― AP, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D*A*V*I*D's right, they'd look pretty retarded on a man my age. The only one's I've kept are ones given to me by bands I used to know, I just can't throw them out. So I've got one for the Raging Slab record Ass Master--it's so homo, it's great--and I have one for Michael Quercio's band the Jupiter Affect that has a nice drawing of Angela Davis on it. I also have one of Bette Midler in the Rose, does that count? It's the only one I still wear, it's so ridiculous. The first two don't even fit me anymore.

God, I forgot, I made a t-shirt of the 12-inch of Jordy's "Dur Dur D'etre Bebe" for a party once, I've still got that.

I wish I had a Frankie Say t-shirt.

I once sent away for an Iggy t-shirt when I was in high school and when it arrived I was horrified to find that it had the words "I Wanna Be Your Dog" printed in big letters across the front. I never wore it, I thought I'd get laughed out of town. Not many Stooges fans in Southeastern Connecticut at that time. What a coward I was.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a Polvo t-shirt from the "Exploded Drawings" album. The illustration glows in the dark. I was walking east on 14th street last week and a totally unlikely woman w/handbag and lipliner points and yells hoarsely - "I LOVE that band!!" Too shocked to reply.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm still pissed I gave my Cure 92 Australian Tour shirt to my fucking ex in Argentina.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only band shirts I still have say Wedding Present and St Etienne on them. They're now far too small for me to wear. No wait, I also have Tindersticks and a Dinosaur Jr ones which I wear in bed. So that no-one can see me with them on...

― alex thomson, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My man pretty much only wears band shirts. Almost every time we go to a show he buys a shirt. He's 34.

Keep in mind neither of us has paid more than about $7 to see a band in at least a decade. He's in a couple of garage bands and everyone we see are of the same ilk: Immortal Lee County Killers, Wontons, Hatchbacks, Wiretaps, Catheters, etc. This is his daily wardbrobe. (well today he went to work wearing a rat fink tshirt.)

I don't have any problem with this and I don't think it's pretentious or anything. he buys the shirts to support bands he likes and is happy to wear them. By the time you're 34 you really don't care about your "cred" anymore. As far as size. . .garage bands are great b/c they make real sizes. My guy's small so he'll by a small size and then we both can wear them. :)

So final word: classic.

― tocado, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's talk about their properties as dusters and dishrags. Shoegazers preferred for that all-over wash-out effect.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once used someone else's band t-shirt as a duster. Evil, I know.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coming in late...I have somewhere over a hundred band T-shirts. Constantly being added to! Most recent was Mogwai last month.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most shirts just look tacky. It's always nice when they have a little bit more, or a LOT more, to them than just some stupid logo.

While I like Parklife a lot, I still think Mogwai putting out shirts that said "Blur are shite" was a nice move. So many meelymouthed stars, nice to see someone put a challenge right out like that.

The bandwear I have now, as a 31 yr old, is naturally a bit classier than my old Slayer shirt was. I have a Phish jersey that looks exactly like a Nike jersey except it says NICU stead of NIKE (from a song, you see-- "...And I see you..." became "N.I.C.U.") and I have an Aislers Set one with a nice little expressionist painting of scenic San Fran.

...All in all though, they're pretty freakin DUD as a whole.

― Chris, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coming in late...I have somewhere over a hundred band T-shirts. Constantly being added to! Most recent was Mogwai last month.

My question for Ned is: Do you ever wear shirts other than band t- shirts? ;-)

You and my sister both seem to never not wear them.

― Nicole, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I absolutly am fed up with the stupid manufacturers of band shirts making them only in sizes big enough a whale could wear. They don't figure anyone but a fat beerbellied man is going to wear them. I need a small!!!! Is there anyone anywhere who knows of a place online where you can buy a band shirt in a size small??? I also have been looking for other shirts with entertainment things on them, but once again, those companies feel the need only to produce "I Love Lucy" shirts for the fat

― Susie Q, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually embarrasingly eough band t shirts never fit me as they are too small

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a Catpower band t-shirt that Chan gave to me for free.

― nathalie, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Due to my other t-shirts being washed I ended up wearing an old Joy Division t-shirt to the pub on Tuesday. I swear one of LC's friends thought it was in the style of one of those Top Shop Motorhead/Iron Maiden shirts.

― DG, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's funny, I stopped buying band t-shirts a long time ago due to ridiculous prices, and my inability to get one that is in my size and/or will stay that way after washing. But I'm too lazy to phase them out of my wardrobe, as I never buy clothes. This means that despite my musical taste having shifted radically since high school, I project to observers the idea that my fave bands are Foo Fighters, Oasis, Prodigy, Radiohead, Prodigy, etc.

― Dave M., Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

www.kungfunation.com & everythingenglish.com have a pretty good selection of shirts in small and medium.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

1 Nirvana
1 Metallica
1 Radiohead
1 Devo
1 Ramones
1 Strokes
1 Misfits
1 Husker Du

Thazzit! All I've ever had.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 18 January 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Mostly bands that ruined my life, 'cept for the Strokes one, which has a lovely design that I just had to have.

Oh, and a campy Michael Jackson Bad Tour one!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 18 January 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually own fifteen (15) different Killing Joke t-shirts.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 January 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i own a sleater kinney t shirt that an old flatmate gave me, that s all

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I have one Clash t-shirt that I bought at Hot Topic for nostalgia's sake. I've never worn it, because the image is done with that super-cheap overlay stuff that's stiff as a board.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so jealous of all the Pulp t-shirts on this thread.

― LiquidTide (LiquidTide), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a Cool As Fuck shirt, never wore it as the colours were way too bright and the band had shit hair. I also had a Man From Delmonte shirt that some girl made me, I wore that one. I nver bothered with any others.

― svend, Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

this was the first ilx thread i posted to. rock.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 18 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate being right sometimes.

― the river fleet, Sunday, 18 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

My question for Ned is: Do you ever wear shirts other than band t- shirts? ;-)

Answering this a few years late...there are other shirts?

(I do have other shirts including The Proper Buttoned Kind but I only wear those when the occasion demands it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I should stop buying them. My entire t-shirt collection are band t-shirts. But I seem to have this reverse Midas touch on bands i've got t-shirts of. Most of them end up being dropped or break up (Seafood, Drugstore) and not very successful at all.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 18 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I still have a Kingmaker T-shirt. It's largely covered in black paint though. I remain very fond of an incredibly faded Madder Rose t-shirt which has extremely sentimental attractions.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 18 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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xxpost -- (In which case I'm saved from his opprobrium.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

i do wear too many band (and label) t-shirts though. was about to pull the trigger on a 'reverb worship' shirt but now i'm not sure..

― alcohol-fuelled love (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)

i've often contemplated throwing out every t-shirt i own to force myself to dress better, maybe just save one vikings shirt for game days...never had the guts to do it though

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

I still occasionally wear my Battles and !!! tees but theyre proper women's sized and subtle enough that they arent screamingly "band tee"ish.

I like the idea of being 85 and wearing band tees and converse though. Hm.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

xpost -- Going about it the wrong way -- just throw out the Vikings shirt instead and wear one from a real team. Hey why are you looking at me like that.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

You probably shouldn't listen to me anyway - I am rather boring.

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

xpost http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2009/351/2/7/Smiley_Shake_Fist_by_Mirz123.gif

― jazz bus (╓abies), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://store.fieldmuseum.org/prodimg/107664.jpg

^^Just bought this at the Field Museum in Chicago and it so feels like a band t-shirt.

― jazz bus (╓abies), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

i will probably do this until i die

― DANGER: DO NOT EAT SHAMELESS DONG (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

Band tshirts tucked into belted jeans worn with sport jackets.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

now that says class

― alcohol-fuelled love (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

rabies what are you doing in chicago?

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:05 (fifteen years ago)

and all stars don't forget those

― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

these days i only wear t-shirts for bands i'm in

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

i should be fair here and say that if i had a different day job i prob would have to have real person clothing, but since i dont, what the hell

― DANGER: DO NOT EAT SHAMELESS DONG (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

I am just some IT monkey but today I have been wearing my Drum Eyes t-shirt under my button shirt and sneering rebelliously at the helpdesk inbox before answering any tickets, thus I ~~WIN~~lose

― canna kirk (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

BF makes his own tshirts with cafepress, he has one that has a picture of an envelope and a rock and says "post-rock" under it. It's ridic, but the chicks and record store nerdboys love it.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

xposts I was in Chicago with my gf visiting her sister over the weekend. Her sis works for the Nature Museum so we get to go to alla those for free, tho mostly we just um...drank.

― jazz bus (╓abies), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

i hope you enjoyed your time in chicago, but sounds like you did. at least you saw some dinosaurs.

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah Chicago's awesome, I wanna go back when it's a bit warmer. I wish the Field would let you camp there, I felt like I only saw a sliver of what was there.

― jazz bus (╓abies), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

Gildan 50/50 shirts: Are they nice and soft with a relatively thin collar like all shirts should be OR bulky and stiff with chunky collar like all shirts used to be?

I haven't worn a T-shirt that *wasn't* an American Apparel tri-blend in three or four years, that's how much I love them.

These are Gildan 50/50 and I really want one, but not if they're shitty, bulky, stiff shirts. Looking for shirt intel.

http://goods.eolianempire.com/product/eolian-t-shirt

― alpine static, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:16 (eleven years ago)

these are all over the thrift stores if you need to see an example. they're like 5.6 oz/ sq yd compared to 3.7 oz for the aa shirt, so i think they're in the "heavyweight" category. not really soft or thin but not the stiffest or bulkiest either imo.

― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 00:57 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

results of extensive stockroom clearout of 90s music (and related lifestyle pursuits) shirts here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=221650275683&ssPageName=ADME%3ASS%3ASS%3AUS%3A1120&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_ssn=beetleinthebox&_sop=3

who the fuck has that much money to spend on Cramps merch I have no idea but there is fun to be had re: the shirts which went for a few dollars on that last pages also

― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:33 (ten years ago)

Holy shit, those prices.

― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:38 (ten years ago)

haha I totally have that Velvets shirt.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:16 (ten years ago)

just like three hours ago i was like, i want a godheadsilo shirt. apparently this is the one item that the internet cannot provide

― adam, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:18 (ten years ago)

man that Cure Wish tour shirt...

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:19 (ten years ago)

my calculus professor was wearing that shirt on my first day of college w/ black jeans and tevas. we are tight bros now.

― adam, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:25 (ten years ago)

i am wearing a band tshirt rn
classic

― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)

I'd like a tshirt of the Electric Warrior cover

― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:44 (ten years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31qgUFKdgpL.jpg

― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)

i would have bought that Clint Black shirt if it were still available

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:44 (ten years ago)

the Suede tee is the only one of those I had

the only one I'd want is the b&w 10KM

those are some FUGLY shirts but then 1990s

― wank anything you feel like wanking (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 20:58 (ten years ago)

nine years pass...

I have two “band shirts”, one with the Felt logo from the “Index” single and one with the cover of Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica. Think that’s all I need.

― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 16:47 (one year ago)

well actually I would like a Stevie Nicks shirt but haven’t really seen anything that great.

― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 16:48 (one year ago)

i have pretty much nothing but band shirts. I stopped buying them at shows last year not because I don't like to own them but because it got to be too expensive but I probably have 140 different shirts now lol...

some I have forgotten I owned

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 16:50 (one year ago)

mine are mostly historic relics by now - husker du shirt bought at the show, SST blasting concept shirt that came with the comp - so I don't wear them out much, they're stored in a moth proof bag
I do have a dorky Three Dog Night shirt that I wear sometimes, with Jeremiah the bullfrog dancing across a lily pad

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 17:06 (one year ago)

How old is too old to wear band shirts? Personally I’ve crossed that line

― calstars, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 17:22 (one year ago)

wgas

― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 17:26 (one year ago)

Lately I’m gravitating toward shirts that look like band shirts but aren’t. Today I’m wearing one that has a picture of Schopenhauer with his name written like a death metal logo.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 17:59 (one year ago)

I'd like a tshirt of the Electric Warrior cover

I've got one like that. Also in constant rotation: Big Star #1 Record, Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo. None of these are original, of course, but I think they look cool.

― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:12 (one year ago)

hah I ended up getting an electric warrior one too but it was really stiff and uncomfortable so I gave it away

― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 19:14 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.stereogum.com/2308669/nba-fines-jalen-williams-25000-over-madness-t-shirt/news/

― jaymc, Saturday, 24 May 2025 14:51 (two months ago)

two months pass...

anyone know the best place to sell old band t-shirts? is it just ebay or is there some place kids with money be lookin'?

― alpine static, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 17:51 (one week ago)

You could try the ILX Marketplace:

It Will Have Sparked Joy: physical media iso new home

― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 17:55 (one week ago)

had no idea that was a thing!

― alpine static, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 18:03 (one week ago)

it's brand new!

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 18:04 (one week ago)

Older threads here:
New Answers: ILX Marketplace

― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 18:27 (one week ago)

I'm sure this has been covered in this thread but it is insane what upscale vintage places will charge for an 80's-era Hall & Oates concert shirt. Or any concert shirt from that era. But they generally seem to be Hall & Oates.

― henry s, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 19:47 (one week ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/J4fWxgWW/temp-Image-IQYKVE.avif

― calstars, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 19:51 (one week ago)

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