Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

"Although my public/ performance personna is consistently this one thing, this t-shirt is indicative of what'd it be like to have sex with me." At least that's how I interpret that Durst photo, and the Duff one, too.

So Durst has sex like a Smiths fan and Duff loves like Motorhead.

Classic post.

I can't seem to find a freeze frame anywhere, but my favorite mismatch is the Public Enemy t-shirt on Donnie Wahlberg in the New Kids on the Block "Step by Step" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDtEPCFM0I

http://earbuds.popdose.com/pykorry/Sting%20and%20The%20Beat.jpg

...what about noize laydees wearing Manics shirts? Does that count?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2656404984_31397e7cc6.jpg

i always thought it would be funny if some trendy new act wore the shirts of really naff bands like sublime or hoobastank.

hate this q so much

surprise, very few musicians only want to rep for music that sounds like what they do. because, shocker, musicians like lots of different kinds of music. WOW INCREDIBLE THEY MUST BE POSING BY WEARING SHIRTS FOR BANDS THAT DON'T SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY DO.

No one said anything about "posing" -- I thought this was just a thread for pictures of musicians in other bands' shirts.

yeah I know it's just it always feels like this implicit "no way Avril likes the Ramones, after all she sucks!" vibe (we had a huge throwdown about that way back) and while I am a little sympathetic to the position "a person should only wear a band/musician t-shirt if they actually like that band/musician" I am deeply unsympathetic to the position "a person whose music I hate couldn't love music I like, it is at the least very unlikely"

http://www.fctvplus.net/~cdzingg/lucinda/roseland.jpg

http://www.fctvplus.net/~cdzingg/lucinda/roseland.jpg

there are explicit refutations of that position you hate in this thread, aero, not least from its creator.

i mean PE in minor threat tees is just the sort of pluralism that i find cool in visual representation, but no u gotta go rail against something

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.

I think it's a sex code thing more than an overt statement of affiliation with any particular band/ genre. It's like they're saying, "Although my public/ performance personna is consistently this one thing, this t-shirt is indicative of what'd it be like to have sex with me." At least that's how I interpret that Durst photo, and the Duff one, too.

two examples from this thread

This thread would be a lot more fun if it it was less "LOL FAMOUS PERSON DOESN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT BAND AS ME BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY BEING FAMOUS" and was more "Hey, isn't this neat?"

We're all adults, the fact that one of the jocks likes your favorite band should have stopped bothering you, like, freshman year of college.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:47 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

what I agree w/

you realize you are defending hillary duff

j-just checking

just because we're divorced does not mean I won't rep for her

ok I can understand that but I have no idea why you would rep for durst when he wouldn't even give you a call on father's day

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.

I think it's a sex code thing

Like a particularly-colored handkerchief in a particular pocket?

Nothing will be as epic/awesome as Jordan in a Bauhaus t-shirt anyway.

How about Angelina Jolie in Crass?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mk62Yz-snR4/S7EMWnW5IYI/AAAAAAAAA8o/JQfM4qPZtQ4/s1600/jolie2pt.jpg

"I've studied my flaws in your reflection
And put them to rights with savage correction
I've turned my statuesque perfection
And shone it over in your direction"

...seems about right.

Check out Bob Weir's shirt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3NTMYtggo

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/l_226eff39f1494732a69f5e9e893ebb74.jpg

There's a band called 'kenan'!?

Well, one of my friends was deeply into tepid indie bollocks, but regularly wore a t-shirt that proclaimed "McFly are actually quite good"!!!!!!!!!

And, what's more, he wasn't being ironic!!!!!! He actually quite liked McFly!!!!! That's why wore so often!!!!!!!

So there!!!!!!!

PE in minor threat tees actually makes like tons of sense to me, in the glen e. friedman type way

http://i51.tinypic.com/24y8dqw.jpg

They could never top the Bauhaus t-shirt in the Right Stuff vid, but at least they tried.

http://www.onlineticketmarket.com/media/gbu0/prodsm/basementjaxx.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/189665_521296644550042_724042824_n.jpg

An offended Alex In NYC posted this on his Facebook page with the comment: "If Chris Brown can name a single song by the Exploited, I'll eat my sneakers."

honestly the blue collar & pockets are the more offensive things about that jacket

cro-swags

http://i.imgur.com/liCw4.png

I sincerely love it every time this happens and will never ever ever get bored of it

counting crows dude loving VU -- esp loaded -- doesn't really seem surprising at all IMO

i agree but it fits the "sound nothing like them" bill well enough

every counting crows record is at least as good as loaded

i dunno abt that but i like "a long december" more than "lonesome cowboy bill"

honestly the blue collar & pockets are the more offensive things about that jacket

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 19, 2012 1:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cr it bothers me less that he's repping bands he most likely has never heard and more how bad he looks

chris brown and harley flanagan would probably get along

every counting crows record is at least as good as loaded
lolz, i always enjoy aero's unrelenting loaded hate.

at my funeral my life's work, a screed entitled Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis Loadedis, will be read by mourners as a copy of the master tape is backed over by a monster truck

and then a choir sings a sweet version of oh sweet nuthin followed up by a rootin tootin cowboy bill!

is that all the monster truck is going to do at your funeral? I mean you might as well give folks a full show.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzafozhhdm1qb3or7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/xsdrrx/ak.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzafozhhdm1qb3or7.jpg

is the 1st one ke$ha?

y

all these famouses are already on t-shirts and have identities that are reducible to a t-shirt. they're walking t-shirts themselves. the semiotics of a walking t-shirt wearing a t-shirt are going to be different than those of a civilian wearing the same shirt.

like i could subsume my identity in a smiths shirt but durst can't recede in the same way. he can only scramble the durst signal, redirect it, attempt counterpoint or amplification, or point to something interior but he can't lose himself in the smiths signal.

not sayin these ppl can't wear a band shirt for the same reasons as anybody else but ilx and authorial intent etc..

What yr sayin' is, it's quite possible that a famous wearing a tshirt could in itself become a t-shirt with meaning, but a famous could not wear that shirt because π

you mean like durst wearing a shirt that has a pic of duff wearing a motorhead shirt? only if that was an officially merchandised duff shirt, and the duff/ motorhead conflict collapsed into a singularity. otherwise it's just a dickhead wearing some shirt.