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  1. I’m not a t-shirts person any more. I used to wear them all the time, but decided that as the grey hair started to encroach it wasn’t a good look. But I have a lot of them still which I wear for shlubbing about the house. My favourites are my Last Exit To Nowhere “Venkman, Stantz, Spengler: Paranormal Investigations” one and two Wu-Tang ones. One is a huge yellow Wu logo on a black t-shirt and the other is a homemade one in the style of the OP: “The RZA & The GZA & Ol’ Dirty Bastard & Inspectah Deck & Raekwon The Chef & U-God & Ghostface Killah & The M.E.T.H.O.D. Man.

  3. To wear a T-shirt unless one is an actual working offshore oil driller is inappropriate.

    To wear a band T-shirt if either one’s waist size or age is over 30 is inadvisable.

  5. I agree that between 30 and 50 they don’t work, but at 50 plus they are again allowed (as long as they are not, definitely, definitely not Old Guys Rule. I like the band name lists meme, and had lots of remarks/questions as to my Al, Bruce, Mike, Carl, Brian and Dennis one at Bearded Theory.

  8. I was a constant wearer of The Ramones and Motorhead “classics” before they became fashion items.
    Having lost The Ramones shirt some years ago(OK, it got thrown away because it was full of holes and smelt a bit) , I had a yearning to replace it and found a new one … in Primark.

    Current fave, now it is (sort of) warming up is The Beatles Abbey Road cover (bought in Tesco), and a Bullseye T-Shirt (you can’t beat a bit of Bully)

  10. For the best part of a year now following a memorable day at Trent Bridge, this has been my favourite.

    Trent Bridge Ashes Test 2015

    I was wearing it shortly after getting it and someone spotted it and said that he had bought it for a friend, an Australian friend, for his birthday, his 60th birthday (the Aussies were bowled out for 60 in case you weren’t aware).

  13. I think if you look back in the archives you will find my magisterial and final words – “Unless it advertises a bike shop in Salida, Colorado you are not allowed to wear a T-shirt with any emblazoned slogan whatsoever. This is the law and it includes you Ms Breakfast”.

  14. I don’t like wearing shirts, so I tend to be in t-shirts most of the time. My favourite t-shirt of my (relative) youth was the Charlatans ‘Dead Dead Good’ one that took some tracking down. I’ve recently reached a point where I don’t give a feck whether I am too old to be wearing band or ‘comedy’ t-shirts, so I’ve been buying loads. I don’t know how to post a picture, but I bought a fab Kraftwerk one, a mock Levi’s t-shirts that actually says Elvis (I think it’s brill, but I’m yet to meet anybody who agrees), a Beastie Boys one with caractures of their Sabotage video characters on it and, the only one that my wife actually likes, a Mogwai ‘Young Team’ t-shirt.

    But my favourite is my t-shirt with ‘RIOT’ emblazoned across it, that means nothing to anybody who doesn’t watch It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, but I think it’s great. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet met anybody who has even heard of IASIP, let alone anybody recognising where my t-shirt comes from!

    I’ve also recently bought the best shirt that England ever wore (which everyone knows is the one from the 1982 World Cup). I picked it up at Wembley, or Oakwell south as it’s now called. I suppose it’s ironic that I’m buying an England shirt when I am so disenchanted with football that I haven’t watched any game that didn’t involve my own team (Barnsley, in case you hadn’t guessed) for several years and won’t be watching the overpaid, cheating, prima donnas in the European Championships either, but it is a cool shirt and reminds me of when football was a game, rather than a business.

    Anyway, I had it on yesterday when a delivery man brought the new garden furniture round. When he saw my shirt he correctly spotted that it was from the 82 World Cup, so I guessed he was around the same age as me. I told him I’d picked it up at Wembley and he said “well, you’ve kept it in good nick to say it’s over 30 years old”. I didn’t bother correcting him, as I was just fascinated that he thought I’d have bought a large adult shirt when I was 12 years old!

  28. I have loads because I never throw them away. They eventually get relegated to bed wear or gardening wear. Here are a few. This first one goes down at bluegrass festivals

    I bought several over the years from my visits to Merlefest . I like these two

    Still on a bluegrass tip: the word blue is printed in blue letters on a blue background

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