Thift store t-shirt prices as barometer of muscial cool

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In a Toronto thrift store, this Sunday:

Stevie Nicks 1983 tour t-shirt: $30
Jimmy Buffett 1983 tour t-shirt: $15

I Love Disco t-shirt: $10
Disco Sucks: $5

What's going on here?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

$30 dollars for a t-shirt?!!!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the outrageous price a consequence of my misunderstanding the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar?

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

$1 canadian = about 45p = about 75 US cents. Ish.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

On a related note....

Is Von Dutch gear the New Millenium equivalent to Phillies Blue t-shirts? Discuss...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

millennium, I think you'll find.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoops, Phillies BluNT t-shirts...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm... methinks that store shouldn't be called a thrift store, but a hipster antique store.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Thursday, 23 October 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

In what universe does thrift store not mean hipster antique store?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Answer: When actual poor people shop there.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 23 October 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god.

my hatred of Von Dutch grows daily.

fucking horribleohgodno.

all the assholes i go to school with (rather, the fashion majors) and their fucking trucker hats.

whores.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Pardon my seemingly boundless ignorance, but what exactly is Von Dutch? A skateboard company? A brand of chewing tobacco? A brand of designer tube-sock?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of poncey designers.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Just for rock stars- They are making Jaz a monogrammed crotchpocket as we speak.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't von dutch a legit sixties surf company, part of that big daddy roth thing? seems like somebody savvy just licensed it... maybe i'm wrong

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.letterhead.com/articles/bob_burns/vondutch/

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

all you really need to do is come up with some logo people want to emblazon on their body and just count the money as it rolls in. people NEED to be branded.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't von dutch a legit sixties surf company, part of that big daddy roth thing? seems like somebody savvy just licensed it... maybe i'm wrong

No, you're right. It is one and the same.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Von Dutch was an auto pinstriper who was part of the whole "Kustom Kulture" of the fifties and sixties along with Ed Roth, Daryl Starbird ETC. His most famous design was of "Flying Eyeballs". He died awile back, and whomever owned the rights to his name and estate (designs, and whatnot) soldout to fashion. The thing is, Von Dutch shirts have been around for years and are real big in Rockabilly circles.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 23 October 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Shania Twain's Von Dutch shirt.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a Marshall Tucker Tour of '81 t-shirt for $1.

"Get Tuckerized"

So, no...barometer inaccurate.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i contributed some von dutch nonsense in that trucker hats thread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I visited the Von Dutch Garage store when it first opened up, it was all just reasonably priced greaser glothes - work-shirts and jeans, and this sweet flamed fridge.

I don't know if they sold the name (there was a lawsuit from part of the Von Dutch family, I think) or what happened, but the people who ran that store can't be doing the current designs. It's just not possible.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I am wearing a green t-shirt that I bought at the thrift store in my neighborhood for 99 cents. It says "Winter Basketball In Jesus."

― hstencil, Friday, 24 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't afford hipster antique stores. Most of my ironic tshirts were purchased for $2 or less. You just have to wade through more crap to find them.

There's a shop like that downtown here that sells old tour shirts for ridiculous prices...

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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