People's Reactions to You Wearing a Band Tee Shirt

I wore my Type O Negative T-shirt to a Moonspell/Katatonia show (Gothic metal type bands, for those unfamiliar), and loads of people complimented me on the shirt, which sort of confused me. Not that people were complimenting me on it, just that it's not like that was an obscure band shirt to be wearing at that show.

As far as bandmembers complimenting shirts, I was at a party with some guys from In Flames after one of their Los Angeles shows, and one of the guys told me he liked my Sentenced shirt, which is funny since I got it at a show where Sentenced was opening for them.

(I like metal.)

i'd pay you a compliment for wearing a sentenced shirt too. i think they're pretty cool

My friend wore a Stryper t-shirt (a red one, no less) to see the Sisters of Mercy in 2000. I believe he also wore madras shorts with it. Heroic!

isn't that Andrew Eldritch's standard wardrobe these days anyway???

only instead of Stryper it would be Georges Sorel

Who designed the shirt?

You continue to shame the band. Absolutely astounding.

when i wore my ramones t-shirt on a trip to mexico in '86, i stepped off a bus and the driver said, 'ramonays!'

I saw the Dismemberment Plan just before "Is Terrified" came out and bought a t-shirt. A few weeks later I was wearing it around Tacoma Park, Md., and this dude stopped me and started to talking to me about the Dismemberment Plan, about how they were really good and going places, how his band played shows with them. It turned out he was the drummer for Jawbox. FIN.

-- n/a, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 18:33 (Yesterday) Link

ha! i know zach, he's a good guy.

You continue to shame the band. Absolutely astounding.

-- Alex in NYC, Thursday, 2 August 2007 17:15 (Yesterday) Link

My god. You are such a bitch!! It's hilarious!!

Look....I shouldn't even know who Killing Joke even are, but for some odd reason I do...Ok...I'll give this ONE MORE SHOT...

Was it Paul Ferguson?? God, this would be a lot easier if I WAS ALIVE WHEN THIS STUFF WAS MADE!

Take care Alex.

how old are you these days, Aja?

16

It's weird being somewhat familiar with the goings-on of ILX, but not familiar enough to know whether TWEENER AJA is some joke that everyone's in on, or if it's indeed 4 real.

I want to believe

Ok...whatever.

I'm 16. If you don't believe me, that's your problem.

It's your posts from 3-4 years ago that trouble me. I wouldn't be surprised that a precocious kid might find her way onto ILX, but that whole Dante thing, I mean.... what?

Yeah...Sorry about that....I don't talk to him any more...Thank God

Hen Fap.

I'm sorry...but what?

One evening in the Summer of 2001, I was wearing a London Calling t-shirt while standing outside a club in Austin. A bald man walked by and told me "Cool shirt, Elvis Costello is awesome!"

-- C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

wtf austin knows better than this

this would be a lot easier if I WAS ALIVE WHEN THIS STUFF WAS MADE!

ilx: the new class

;_;

<i>Well...about the Unknown Pleasures shirt...I think it's just a coincidence. I haven't seen those shirt sold in "hip teenage stores", or any chain stores, like the Ramones T shirts...Funny though</i>

Urban Outfitter has been selling Unknown Pleasures shirts for years, albeit without any mention of JD...just the design.

Anyone caught wearing an Unknown Pleasures shirt who can't name at least three songs from the album (let alone hum them) should be immediately bludgeoned with a ball peen hammer. Here endeth the lesson.

Except when they're wearing a tshirt with 100 successive pulses from the PSR 1919+21 Pulsar, obviously.

No, them too. KA-POW.

It's weird being somewhat familiar with the goings-on of ILX, but not familiar enough to know whether TWEENER AJA is some joke that everyone's in on, or if it's indeed 4 real.

-- wanko ergo sum, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:10 (14 hours ago) Link

well, she did post a picture on the "unnaturally-colored hair" thread