Post pics of the best/worst Battle Jackets and ILM will mark them out of 10

y'know i'm marking down anything with the Doors or the Pistols on it, it's not even a musical thing, i just demand ruthless territoriality on my Metal jackets

http://i.imgur.com/mzKhx3O.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WdGd2hP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ClvI7qD.jpg

Has anybody ever seen people wearing these?
http://i.imgur.com/7vxUIu7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MSh0kkv.jpg

SPOT THE ODD PATCH OUT

http://i.imgur.com/Rt8tD4T.jpg

This thread is the greatest.

And I've never seen a confederate flag jacket but have seen plenty of these irl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05G8xk9YMMM

http://i.imgur.com/gXjkduT.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2245/2167807713_a727a769f8.jpg

which do you think is the odd one out on that other one dude?

foo fighters

lol ez with the tattoo with the wrong spelling

i'm 33 am i too old to wear one of these?

no.

more likely too young! Its still mostly 35+ who I see wearing them. Of course in big cities/gigs it may be quite different.

Which is why I asked if anybody ever saw anyone wearing them now. (it's supposedly been making a comeback the past decade)

http://i.imgur.com/T5AGVB2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/l6vCxVN.jpg

Which one would you wear whiney?
http://i.imgur.com/ibR6JRu.jpg
or
http://i.imgur.com/eQHM9bq.jpg
or
http://i.imgur.com/Bpxx5ay.jpg

Yeah the dudes wearing their battle jackets to the bar were late 40s at least.

well, when I was in High School, I had a denim jacket that I had my mom sew back patches on — iirc they were Primus, Red Hot Chili Peps, Korn, Public Enemy and a few more.

Kind of thinking it would be kind of cool to make a new jacket covered in all pre-1992 hip-hop patches

there definitely is younger ones around no doubt but not seen enough personally to know if it really is a thing now or just an oddity (or wearing dads/big brothers)

http://i.imgur.com/CVWkunz.jpg

the rev said he would wear
http://i.imgur.com/eQHM9bq.jpg

and by "cool" I probably mean "would be a fun project" because no bald, doughy dude is gonna make that cool

I dont think anyone who wears battle jackets worries about being cool. It's not very metal.

i'm kind of psyched on this idea thank you AG

http://i.imgur.com/Ly9v7bi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sn1LPc0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YcUDvlA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2svmVQi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hGmCdwQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RxNIrih.png

http://i.imgur.com/PwDaXxb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OUpkzBt.jpg

http://aux-www.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Brown-jacket.jpg
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrnvvK1EI1qmgnmfo2_400.jpg

ahead of the game:

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/missy-elliot-motorhead.jpg

check out the presumptuous garbage rant that leads the article that photo is from

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/%E2%80%9Cfinely-aged-dishrags%E2%80%9D/

i expect kids to be stupid, it's always disheartening when you see adults doing it and presumably getting paid for it

Musicfans can be very territorial

http://i.imgur.com/GThGYyg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GoVy5Ur.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/H2ZSxeP.jpg

the back of this one I posted earlier
http://i.imgur.com/Bpxx5ay.jpg

http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/Heavy-RnB-Battle-Jacket

http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/Heavy-RnB-Prototype

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2011/09/artist-james-jirat-patradoon-explains-his-rappunk-denim-vest-project

i dunno if the goons would read this thread so perhaps whiney might want to post those pics/links elsewhere

Musicfans can be very territorial

yeah i don't think this is v. justifiable for adults

SPOT THE ODD PATCH OUT

I wouldn't have said Foo Fighters (though they do suck); what caught my eye was the Mago de Oz patch. They're a weirdo folk-metal band from who've been around for about 25 years.

tbf i never heard of them

btw from that rnb jacket guys tumblr

t's an exploration of the music industry's relationship with fashion and branding, I intend to raise questions about the power of a brand, what a musician or a band means beyond the context of just their music, what they represent culturally or emotionally to people. When one becomes aware of this power, and re-arranges and recontextualises these symbols, it can open up new meanings and questions.

Music also has the ability to mark personal growth or change, life stages, tastes, subcultures etc. I grew up during the late nineties and early noughites when it was pretty common to just be labeled one thing, punk, goth, homie, etc. depending one what you listened to. Why limit yourself to being so one dimensional?

I also have a vested interest in exposing the hypocrisy of punk, it seems the movement (if you could call it that) was so much about 'Fuck everything, do what you want EXCEPT listen to hip hop EXCEPT go to university EXCEPT get a nine to five job EXCEPT eat meat.' I began to see it as a mini fascist regime, and the negative reactions from music fans on both sides about this project just go to prove this. That was exactly my intention."