A question to those of you who wear "concert" t-shirts.

I would so wear a t-shirt with caprese on it. I love it that much, I does.

I actually made some of my (thus far) lifelong friends in college thanks to silly rock/concert t-shirts. Had I not been wearing a Circle Jerks "Wild in the Streets" t-shirt in the library that one day during the first week of orientation, my friend Jay might never have come up and said, "dude, you like the `Jerks? How do you feel about JFA?" (and from thence, a relationship based on silly punk rock trivia blossomed).

Concert t-shirts.......bringing people together!

Shirts that got me jeered at by heshers: Prince "Jam of the Year" shirt with big symbols on both sides and slogans about sex & stuff all over it; Lovesexy tour shirt with a particulary gay-lookin' Prince pic; completely awesome Cure Disintegration tee.

Your standard black Ramones or Motorhead tee never seems to get commented on one way or the other.

Wearing the tee of some local band while you're in a far-off location can be a nice conversation starter.

Haven't been able to wear my metal shirts in public in years, but that's due to quite radical social/work circle changes. My old denim jacket with the Venom/Metallica/Slayer/Sepultura patches was mistakenly given away to some charity, I really hope some fucked up third world kid is walking around in it and doing it proud.

You're making me think of science fiction scenarios where there is a planet of aliens called Ned's and they all have atomic dustbins and...

Anna, that is a great story about the guy who wanted to talk about Cabaret Voltaire. The European preference for electronic music is still something I grapple with sometimes. Yet I love the Cabs, don't get me wrong.

I have an acquaintance who claims that anyone who wears a band T-shirt after 40 years of age is a c*nt, sad f*ck, etc. I begged to differ, although I have cut back on band T-shirts, and I'm not 40 yet. I still have - and occaisionally wear - a tatty black Nick Cave shirt from a show in 1998. I saw a teenage girl with a Ramones shirt when I went to see the Killers. That was odd/interesting. She was actually very pretty compared to all the other teenage girls I could see there, and since I had to wait 3 hours to get in, I saw plenty.

I have a black Beta Band shirt and a black English Beat shirt. I recently donated my Jeff Buckley and Red House Painters shirts to United Cerebral Palsy because they didn't fit.

How come High Fidelity never mentioned T-shirts? Or did it?

I used to wear a lot of overly large band T-shirts, now that I think of it. But not anymore. One of them I no longer have was a Chameleons one, white, with the cover of What Does Anything Mean on it. I remember a man approaching me in a McDonalds in Manchester when I visited there, asking me about it.

Alex is right, of course. T-shirts are about bringing people together, and I hate to have the unnecessary conversations about them, too.
My fondest memory of a T-shirt started conversation, though, was some guy who approached me in New Jersey when I wore my Bauhaus shirt in 1989. I don't know why.

Outside a Mexican restaurant yesterday I saw a *very* elderly little man wearing a Kiss Alive II tee with an extremely vibrant full-body design on it. I was briefly tempted to go all Alex in NYC on his ass, but decided to give to old geezer a pass. Hell, it was probably Peter Criss.

"well, i have been tempted to buy a t-shirt from my fave thai restaurant in SF

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr)"

i own a shirt for the local carton-sold iced tea company Turner's Iced Tea. that is one of the hottest shirts i own, it's all orange and has the design from the fucking cartons on the back and the Turner's logo on the front. that is some hardcore fucking pittsburgh shit. i will represent for anything i love if they have a cool shirt.