I met the bassist from Singer a little while back and offered to give him a bunch of shirts, but he said that he had several dozen lying around already.
Bands that sink their working capital into making merch before making records: C/D?
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have something like, what, 150 band shirts plus? Maybe 200. I love 'em, what can I say, and they're all from shows I was at. Yow.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
chris, you have such a bad 'tude!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
In all seriousness? By "the Law of John" (see initial thread query at the top), no, as Spectrum and Spiritualized (let alone Darkside, Spaceman 3, Sonic Boom etc. etc.) are technically different bands.
*BUT*
You are sorta guilty of the ol' "ooh, I'm in the know!" crime, suggesting that you're quite hip to the proceedings at work and not merely a fan of Spiritualized, but of their whole milieu. Kinda like wearing a Killing Joke shirt to a Damage Manual show or a sporting a Wedding Present shirt at a Cinerama show or wearing a Marillion shirt to Fish show (wait, who goes to Fish shoes?), or wearing a Misfits shirt at a Danzig show....almost wilfully defying and challenging the artist onstage to admit his artistic heritage, and indirectly telling all other bystanders: "Hey, by the way, I'm not just a fan of that guy onstage, but I've done my homework, buddy, and I'm a dedicated enough fan -- probably unlike you, you fairweather punter -- to know about all the other branches of the tree that produced the fruit you're now enjoying!" It's almost-but-not-quite as bad as yelling "We Love You, Declan!" at Elivs Costello....a sort've smugly unsolicited assertion of your knowledge of music trivia.
I know I'm guilty of it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
But I used to make my own shirts. I had made a Lou Reed shirt - just a silhouette of his face - everyone used to ask me where I got it... I made a Pere Ubu shirt... My wife asked why I didn't just buy the bands' shirts .. I think I said something like ~ because it says their name all ofver it - and if you know who it's supposed to be, then you don't need to read their name ... or some shit answer like that... Anyway, she said, So a shirt with a picture of D.Boon on it would be even cooler because he's not a band, he's (was) just in a band. So I made a D.Boon shirt - the picture from the back of Double Nickels, but I did write his name on it because you could barely make out who it was in the picture. Mang, I loved that shirt though... until I started hearing more & more about the Minutemen .. like people had gone back & discovered them, maybe because Henry Rollins and Sonic Youth had become popluar, I dunno... So I stopped wearing the D.Boon shirt to gigs because D.Boon was no longer a secret.
Also, I never saw the Ramones live, but I do have a tour shirt from when a friend of mine went to see them & a riot broke out. People stole all of the shirts... Normally, I wouldn't condone stealing, but since it was looting during a riot... hey! I should really return that ratty old shirt to its rightful owner. Who would that be? C.J.?
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 10:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 September 2002 05:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 22 September 2002 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 22 September 2002 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Motel Hell (vassifer), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 11 November 2002 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.startrek.com/content/galleries/nemesispremiere/images/15.jpg
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 13 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Am I really supposed to believe that Mr.Timberlake even *KNOWS* who the MC5 are? Please!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 January 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Friday, 3 January 2003 05:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Motel Hell (vassifer), Friday, 3 January 2003 07:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dare you to respond to this. I'm calling you all out.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 3 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann, Friday, 3 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 3 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ojala, Friday, 3 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 January 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Changing Lanes, Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Moreover, he won't wear shirts that merely display the band's name or logo -- it has to have originated at a show he himself attended, or he won't go near it.
corollary: only wear team kit of team you are/were on. this would really cut down prevalence of pro team wear, for the good of mankind. Unless that meant fans showing up at games shirtless, that would be bad 99.95 percent of the time, the .05 possibly being player's wives, babymamas, girlfriends, strippers from last night and whomever else looks good.
*as you were*
― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyhow, my Lollapalooza95 shirt is signed by Moby. Maybe I should Ebay that motherfucker and see how much I can get. I didn't even know who the fuck he was at the time, I was there for BossTones, Jesus Lizard and Sonic Youth.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not only do you have stupid friends but you are a rascist as well.
Ojala
― Ojala, Saturday, 4 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Only 'cause Jon didn't see it, I bet.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
By the way, YOU STARTED IT. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 January 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ojala, Sunday, 5 January 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 5 January 2003 03:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 5 January 2003 04:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Didn't realize your damn silly name represented an entire race. A little presumptious and egocentric, no?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― john fail (cenotaph), Monday, 10 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
haha i have this tee-shirt (though it's probably a cheap bootleg {which is cooler if you think about it})
didn't go down too well at the bratmobile gig i wore it to last year
― schnell schnell, Monday, 10 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Friday, 21 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Band tshirts otherwise are pretty naff on the whole, I think, though.
I hate seeing people at gigs wearing the tour tshirts....and wearing a tour tshirt of another band to a gig - oh dear - really not good.
― russ t, Friday, 21 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 21 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link