t-shirts with logos of fictional companies from tv shows or movies on them

i guess part of what's weird to me is the scale of fandom involved - it's like oh you like the office? so do 2 million other people - you don't really get any "cool points" from anyone for having a dunder mifflin t-shirt, which i think is the self-perception when you wear a band t-shirt

I think a better analogy might be sports team t-shirt -- I don't think people wear them to get "cool points", it's just a way of showing their fandom.

it's not about 'ccol points' it's about constructing your social identity using cultural references

or it's just a t-shirt?

mr. que do you ... own a dunder mifflin t-shirt?

no but so what if i did? who cares?

cool points? really?

those damn hipsters and their cool points

i guess i don't really get what your point is other than contrarianism?

I did like seeing a baseball shirt at a game recently w/ CHICO'S BAIL BONDS on the back.

(for those who know)

haha, that's awesome.

well.... faux promotional t-shirts have been around for well over a decade now, almost two. you know, products designed to reference a business / product / event that doesn't actually exist. e.g. "mary's crab shack" or "aloha mike's tiki bar" or whatever. and yes, part of this was marketing 'cool' on a larger scale, selling a sort of thrift-store authenticity without having to deal with licensing or legal issues.

this sort of product is so commonplace, really, it's not 'cool' anymore. i don't think it's at all surprising that t-shirt sellers fill in references from fictional businesses. the aesthetic is the same, now it just has the added bonus of signalling the shows / movies you watch.

and a t-shirt is "only" a t-shirt when it's underwear, imho

http://rlv.zcache.com/wolf_bret_sweatshirt_fotc_flight_of_the_conchords-p235320978787163161zvd80_400.jpg

yes. some people strongly identify with wolves. wolves are a "power animal" and are very popular on tshirts.

i don't want to adjust my glasses and "well, actually" at you all but i know a thing or two abt tshirts you guys

so are yetis xp

I keep seeing this fat dude by the library wearing a shirt that says "DIFFERENT DAY, SAME SHIRT". I can't figure out if I only recognize him when he's wearing the shirt or if he's really taking its message to heart.

Anyway, that's the only guy who's allowed to wear a cute shirt with a message on it. Everyone else should stick to solid colors.

I wish I had a Rue Mclanahan shirt

your ban will really kill the market for my "romney loves chachi" t-shirt.

i guess i don't really get what your point is other than contrarianism?

guess i don't see why this is a whole thread and not just a single post on the IA thread

actually I wish I had a shirt that just said "I Miss the Holy Vag of Rue MAclanahan"

it's not about 'ccol points' it's about constructing your social identity using cultural references

Ding ding ding!

We're on a message board where a significant portion of the users have band tshirts on right now. Me wearing a Dinosaur Jr shirt works the same for me as wearing a Black Mesa or New California Republic shirt.

Or even this :

http://rlv.zcache.com/hojo_clan_mon_blue_tshirt-p235625217682413192en7po_210.jpg

which works for fans of either Zelda or Sengoku-era clans

I've seen some cool Firefly/Serenity shirts that work as designs and not just nerd signifiers.

Woot or Teefury had an Indiana Jones shirt I almost ordered - all the chalices and the one sad cup from the Holy Grail scene of the Last Crusade

I order way too many teefury shirts. And I do their get a random shirt deals.

who has the best shirts for the price would you guys say?

I like seeing people wearing these shirts! Like I saw someone wearing a 'Mr Manager' shirt and it made me smile. What was the first show to do this? I remember seeing the Sunnydale High ones a million years ago and thinking that was sweet. It's less annoying than this kind of thing:

http://www.shotdeadinthehead.com/product_view.aspx?pid=4526

I bought my brother a Nostromo tshirt or something from Alien. Looked kind of cool. He likes the film. It's a great film.

It's not really advertising though; you'd have to know the "meta product" pretty well already to recognise it. It's a total geek thing.

I'm wearing an in-jokey t-shirt right now. It's not this one, but I'd wear this one:

http://rlv.zcache.com/miskatonic_university_t_shirt_tshirt-p235954220874632309b7hwh_400.jpg

Why? Because I like the idea of someone seeing the shirt and thinking, "That is a thing I like, too!" and I like kinder, I like seeing other people wearing these shirts. So it's connecting with people with similar interests even if we don't actually talk to each other? Also I guess it's a slightly more subtle way of expressing what I like than walking around saying "I LIKE HP LOVECRAFT" or putting that on a button.

This is the shirt I'm wearing today, on casual Friday. I stand strong before your judgment:

http://stacieponder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/casualT.jpg

and I like kinder

That should say "and like kinder," although I do like kinder.

Oh also I think that t-shirts that reference things in movies/tv tend to be more attractive than t-shirts that just have the name of the movie or show on them. Like, I'd rather wear this shirt that references Quark's Bar located on Deep Space 9:

http://i2.cpcache.com/product/473383949/star_trek_deep_space_9_quarks_bar_tshirt.jpg

Thank this one:

http://store.startrek.com/images/products/4/62951-20.jpg

somebody should make tshirts that just say "I LIKE HP LOVECRAFT" or "I like Star Trek", without any logos or images, just black text on a white shirt.

or maybe just "I like ___________" and anybody can just write whatever they want directly on the shirt

I have a more-than-healthy number of Star Wars t-shirts, but I try to look for original-looking stuff. Like this is one of my favorite shirts:

http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/feeding-the-chicken-walkers.jpg?cb5e28

I am pretty sure I'd wear a shirt that says I LIKE STAR TREK.

I'd wear this shirt:

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/TRCBS154lg.jpg

haha i kind of love the 'straight' deep space 9 shirt

and also just to refer to something n/a said upthread, i would assume the % of ppl who wear a given t-shirt because of where the proceeds from its purchase are likely to go is extremely low, regardless of whether it's a 'corporate' shirt or an indie rock one

haha i kind of love the 'straight' deep space 9 shirt

Me too! I was just thinking "I would wear that"....

I'd only wear the DS9 shirt if it had Jadzia on it.

I have a similar fondness of that style of horror t-shirts.

Haha - http://www.tshirtbordello.com/Stephen-King-Rules-T-Shirt

somebody should make tshirts that just say "I LIKE HP LOVECRAFT" or "I like Star Trek", without any logos or images, just black text on a white shirt.

― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, July 27, 2012 1:50 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you used to see those LISTEN TO BLACK SABBATH shirts in the 90s quite a bit, they fitted this description

I think the logo/inside joke shirts show off a deeper or more knowing kind of fandom. Like if you're wearing a Greendale Human Beings shirt then you're broadcasting your fandom to a smaller set of people than if you just wore a Community shirt. It's a bit like when I wear my shirt that says UYD: Seatbelts I know most people are not going to know what it means, but if someone says, "Seatbelts!" then there's an immediate connection.

I dunno, I had my fair share of band t shirts when I was younger, but I guess at a certain point the very idea of "constructing your social identity through cultural references" began to seem fraught and no longer as desirable.

I have two - for lack of a less-horrifying terms - 'mash up' kind of shirts, where I construct my social identity using multiple cultural references at once:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/Y2NA1ciNolgoj0yeUm9oOQ3Vo1_500.jpg

http://nerdapproved.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/beach-boys-black-flag-t-shirt.jpg

I suppose, for people who cringe at this kind of thing, the two-for-one shirts must be extra brutal.

Now I want a shirt with both of those on the same shirt.

no one should wear t-shirts with logos or writing on them, ever

this

i saw someone the other day wearing an otherwise plain white t shirt with this image of tifa lockhart on it:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/10381/527788-tifa_large.jpg

somehow he was making it work, tho, it was odd

hc nerd shirts are cool:

http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig10/10105983.jpg

but kindof in a different bracket imm