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I’ve got a drawer full of them, though some older ones seem to have shrunk quite a bit over the years 🙁

I’ve got three favourites ,a Dylan long sleeve with him posing with a bass guitar, the Neville brothers for a Yellow Moon tour and and Misty In Roots one from a tour of Zimbabwe in 1982.

These days the quality of most and the art seems to be a bit meh.

But today I came across this cracker !

Anyone got a shirt they want to show off?

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    • Incidentally, I’ve subsequently learned that the above t-shirt would be banned in Hungary and a couple of Eastern bloc countries on account of promoting a “symbol of oppression”.

      That’s the five pointed red star, rather than Billy Corgan.

  4. I love it when a band really produce classy merch. Praise to James, Melt Banana and the Wedding Present for this.

    Never saw him live, but today I’m wearing a splendid Camaron de la Isla t shirt. A plumber in Barcelona last year gave me a big thumbs up last year for wearing it.

    My Cameron de la Downing t gets a much more lukewarm response.

  5. Now I’ve drawn the line at wearing a tour t-shirt for a tour I didn’t attend.
    -I think that sits with wearing a t-shirt at the show that you bought it, worse if over other apparel.

    • That would not surprise in the slightest. Stockholm is full of people from the age of 2 and upwards wearing Ramones Ts. I bet even the teenagers haven’t a clue who the band were.

    • wasn’t me but I just might too.

      interesting dilemma re my policy on attendance. Did I attend >no >can’t wear

      But it is also an album >do I own it> yes > can wear *

      * must not include tour dates on back

  9. just on the subject of t-shirts (and with a wave to the http://www.broadsheet.ie regular who recognisd me a while back) I DON’T own this, but I was at a gig where it was sold. Voodoo Lounge in ’95.

    Can you imagine the outcry if they tried to sell this now? And, like, I know it’s 20 years ago, but…

  10. I don’t have many these days, and those I have I’m more likely to wear because I picked them up from charity chops and liked the design than enjoyment of the music.

    I enjoy my Screamadelica shirt, largely because it is free of any writing and stands as a design in itself, and my Four Owls shirt. No, me neither. Apparently they’re a UK hip-hop crew. Hip hop is not my thing, but I liked the shirt when I picked in up in a charity shop in Tunbridge Wells (of all the unlikely towns to find a shirt from a UK hip hop crew).

  11. Joey and Johnny Ramone set up production company; other former members also get a slice of income. In ’08’, they’d already sold over 1.5m tee shirts, with a profit of $2 per tee. Their record sales in the U.S. were minimal.

  14. An ex-wife filleted my wardrobe about a decade ago, telling me I was too old. Now I’m older still I again pick up ones i like the look of, at gigs I liked the sound at, and, sans said wife, have quite few again. Tour ones are very much by Juniors rules in that you had to have been there, and never worn at the gig you bought it at. I am mindful of my age and the demographic the band might actually aspire to, so I don’t wear One Direction or Dr Dre, not that I remember going to either of them. My current fave is from the Ukrainians recent tour-ette , like below but on a tasteful bright lemon yellow, or migraine coloured as the squeeze calls it, with the tour dates of grotty little cellars on the back befitting their angry old men image
    http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p703/11sLament/500x435_zps1marduqb.jpg

  15. Number 1

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Average-White-Band-T-Shirt-Funk-R-B-Soul-Disco-All-Sizes-Colours-/251147679422

    Number 2 (my shirt is actually yellow)

    http://www.clynchprints.co.uk/products/drum-bass-ringo-john-beatles-short-sleeve-t-shirt

    Number 3 (not a band and only picture I could find on interWeb)

    http://q1btxfov.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-248.html

    Number 4

    Number 5

    http://www.redbubble.com/people/butcherbilly/works/10349620-post-punk-super-friends-wonder?p=t-shirt&ref=artist_shop_grid

    I’ll be testing later to check if you could be bothered clicking on all five.

  20. And here comes The Sad Old Bastard From Aberdeen….. t-shirts with words on them with any reference to rock & roll (or indeed anything ‘trendy’) are an abomination and only worn by Sad People From Falkirk. On the very, very special occasions you are allowed to wear a t-shirt with words on them those words should only say “Very Small Coffee Shop In Colorado Where I Had A Really Nice Coffee” or “I Hired My Bike on the South Island From A Really Nice Guy Called Nick”. Anything else, I repeat anything else, spells “Wanker”

  21. This one. i wear it all the time. https://thebaptistgeneralsstore.bandcamp.com/merch/birdhead-t-shirt
    I also ordered this at the same time, but they ran out of red ones, but they were going to do me a fresh one.
    https://thebaptistgeneralsstore.bandcamp.com/merch/anybody-seen-my-bag-tote-bag
    Eh, I never got it, but I did get sent some rare mini cds that they had. Rare stuff which I hadn’t got, so I don’t really feel like I can make a fuss, & I did get to have some lovely email chats with Peter, their guitarist, & I kinda like that I didn’t get my Has Anybody Seen My Bag? bag. It tickles me.

  24. I almost forgot my classic Inspiral Carpets ‘Cool as Fuck’ shirt, possibly because of the limited opportunities I have to show it off. I bought it at one of the best gigs I have ever been to, which was a surprise as I only bought the tickets because the Light and I were having a weekend in Brighton and they happened to be playin Concorde on the sea front. ‘You look like you had a good time!’ said the guy on the mercy desk. ‘Haven’t enjoyed a gig so much in years!’ I replied, ‘large white Cool as Fuck, please.’

    http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/Gatz_photos/image.jpeg

  28. I don’t want to bore you all with pictures of my extensive collection of Steely Dan T- shirts, but this thread (like many on here) has got me reminiscing.

    Those of a certain age will remember the ads in the back ends of MM, NME and Sounds where alongside the loon pants and Afghan coats, T-Shirt designs also featured prominently. I have a vague recollection of one depicting two ‘lumps’ the larger lump pointing at the smaller lump telling it to ‘Sod Off’. Another carried the touching strapline ‘Lie down, I think I love you’. There were many others.

    Does anyone here have any scans of these ads, or the T-Shirts themselves?

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