Band T-shirt Etiquette

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

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.

(deja-vu!)

It was also HOT PINK.

I thought I'd share that for the benefit of Alex.

I like that Missy's wearing a Motorhead shirt in the "Get Ur Freak On" video.

My favorite band shirt is this Violent Society shirt I got at a show of theirs in high school. On the back it says "corporate corrupt punk bureaucracy must go!" isn't that great? i have no idea what it means! i haven't listened to that band in years.

the strangest band t i have is a flaming lips tshirt w/ wayne dressed as a martian w/ 'flaming lips' written on the bottom. however, the letters F-A-G are about 50 point font and the rest of the letters are about 8 pt. within the larger letters. thats a fun one to wear around town..

Don't you mean every picture?

once again. do we really think Spidey's wearing this shirt in earnest?

I also own the previously discussed "Hate Fuck" Pussy Galore shirt, and yes, I bought it at one of their shows. (Saw 'em in L.A. in 1989, after Julia Cafritz had already left the band - they were, I believe, a Spencer/Hagerty/Bert trio that night. Bought the shirt from Bob Bert for $5.)

When I interviewed Lemmy a year or so ago, he said, "I wish everybody who's got our T-shirts had our albums."

I used to use T-shirts as statements, like wearing a Neil Young & Crazy Horse shirt to an Einsturzende Neubauten gig, but have mostly given that up. Except when I go to the Vision Festival, which is run by free-jazz hippies...then I wear my Earache Records shirt that says "Angry Music For Angry Times" on the back in big red letters, or my Ted Nugent shirt that says "One Nation Under Ted," also on the back, also in big red letters, just to tick people off.

I have trouble wearing any band's t-shirts...it pegs me...and I don't wanna be pegged.
As for the ironic twist angle here, I guess I'd haveta wear a Shania Twain tee to be ironic. But I see guys around town with their Ronnie Milsaps and their Yannis.

Why? Everyone keeps saying this but what is the reason?

Why? Everyone keeps saying this but what is the reason?

I believe you can wear band shirts to that band's performance, but it must be from a few years' prior. I got free tix to see REM awhile back and someone had a "Reveal" shirt on and I had to laugh. I think the guy ironed it, too!

But the girl in the "Green" shirt seemed okay.

I won't wear the shirt to the concert but other than I have no rules. I used to wear tons of band shirts, but that was in high school when everything was XXXXTra large, and I just kept a couple of them to sleep in. I have only a few now: mary timony band, carla bozulich review, shannon wright, Mum (is actually too small for me, d'oh!!) and a couple of belle and sebastian ones. I bought all of them at shows except the mary timony one. I was bitter for really stupidly missing the show, so I ordered it online as cold comfort. But the cool thing is, I made a friend out of it-- ran into a guy one day when we were both wearing the same shirt (but different colors, whoa).

(Although, I think these bands were for some strange reason utterly brilliant despite their glaring ineptitude so I might be a huge snob and underestimate these people)

b) I bought a Black Dice t-shirt at their show, and I still don't have the record.

c) I still don't believe in wearing the concert-t the day after the show.

Call me poseur, call me what you will.

It's that about-face hypocrisy that grates on me, though I just chuckle because if they want to pay $80 for one of the damn things, go right ahead.

I dont wear most of my band tees anymore because they were all from that early 90s "everything is size HUGE" era. So look like pyjamas on me. Except for this one very, very old New Order tshirt that has the old III O logo, I dont even know when or where it is from, only that it's an 80s tee - so I still wear that one, as it has a history.

Oh and my Throwing Muses "University" one because it's red, with a yello gun on it, and it looks great.

I have a Killing Joke "Extremities 1990/1991 World Tour" T (black w/red and white print). XL (too large for me). If you want it, send me your address.

Maybe you were there...

Pedant mode off.

OF COURSE I was there! What am I, a novice?

But, thanks very much for your offer. As it stands now, I have upwards of twelve Killing Joke shirts....with more invariably on the way. Suffice it to say, there is no irony involved.

http://missionofburma.com/holdphotos/messageboards/lj/moi/doesthismakemelookfat500bw.jpg

Anyway, then I looked down and realized that I was wearing an RJD2 shirt. That shut me up right quick.

You've just summed up every moment in my life when I've been tempted to make fun of hipsters.

Me, I have a long-sleeved purple Swervedriver shirt that I love dearly. It's warm, too.

What about the Cobra Verde? If the Mission of Burma doesn't make me look fat, what about this one?

Am I too old to be wearing band t-shirts? or holding them up in front of myself?

Where can I buy a swervedriver ls sweat? Maybe that'll cover me up better?

Is it wrong to think that guys in purple band swervedriver shirts are sexy? Especially if it looks like they don't fold it properly when they stuff it in the bureau drawer?

Is there a support group for this problem?

Where is the band t-shirt etiquette monitor?

"s Jeremy Piven sagely intoned in the underheralded classic, "PCU," to a then-portly John Favreau on his way to see the fictitious Merkins while wearing a Merkins t-shirt: "Don't be that guy!" "

I always thought they were talking about the Melvins

They finally solved the dilemma of all young people - how to simultaneously rebel and conform, by rebelling against grown-ups and conforming to each other. Thus to grown-ups they appear simultaneously stuffy and brutish.

And whatever label you wear on your chest, whatever it is, it's about being stuffy, really, isn't it. I guess you could say that about clothes in general but a label is taking it one step further and why would you want to? Except I suppose when you're trying to expose yourself to ridicule through the label like intentionally prostrating yourself in the Beck 'I'm a Loser' sense, but really I would question whether you can honestly claim that you're ever doing that in sincerity.

I loved your "Lost in Lameless" post on your site - re: Lost in Translation. It was so totally dead on. I would absolutely drop the Mission of Burma t-shirt for you. Everyone was telling me how fantastic that movie was...

...Yeah, if you're a middle-aged guy fantasizing about hanging with some young sexy lonely gal.

Puh-leeze. dream on.

And even the acting was crap.

and yes, shameful use of the soundtrack.

My middle-aged saga which will be out soon on DVD is
"Lost in Damnation", set in the "good part" of Burma, and includes scenes of the BurmaKitty lounging naked on some faux leopard lounge, being simutaneously pedicured by no less than six barely legal far eastern type boys while she gets oiled down and fed grapes by some nymphs and Squirrel Bait's "Sun God" is playing over and over again.

http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/CPM/pzBYCPM0001.jpg