Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

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ILM in 2007: Hey, let's post pix of bands/artists wearing band shirts of bands they don't much sound like! What fun!
ILM in 2014: Let's discuss the philosophical expressions of wearing band shirts.

both of these are perfectly OK timewasting activities

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Steve from Embrace wearing a Cardiacs t-shirt. This is not unusual if you know him. He'll be wearing a Sleaford Mods t-shirt next.

I'm happy with the turn this thread has taken, btw.

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Demi does this a lot.
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I know we had this conversation to death upthread but the ideas up there make cardamon want to do some typing, so.

There's something really refreshing about ppl who 'shouldn't' be wearing this or that band's shirt doing so. (Especially if it's a band I like; and even if I've superficially got over teenage rockism.) It's a corrective to the mystique around certain bands – the idea that they are unknown to a largely docile public, known only to an aware group of fans – and the status they have because of it.

It also breaks the false sense of community that can develop around a band, and reminds us that because this thing we like has such universal appeal it can't 'only' be for us or people similar to us.

I'm assuming here that the part of liking a piece of music that has to do with ingroup membership – the part where you're 'a person who likes the velvet underground', or whatever – is like a kind of boring encrustation that distracts from the actual sound hitting your ears, and that it's good to have your sense of affiliation with the people who made whatever music it might be shaken up.

because our sense of affiliation is always false somehow

Lol @ these Hollywood divas that don't get the exquisitely nuanced counterculture message of Love + Rockets, The Cure etc... yeh sarcasm etc....

are the l-r ones supposed to be like exhibits for the prosecution, or how-to guides

That Love & Rockets shirt is cool

yeah I like how it states that she was gainfully employed in something that took place before she was born. kicks it up a notch

that's a nice collection if they're not modern repros. i'm not invested in the authenticity of the person wearing the old-timey shirt, just the shirt itself. i always wanna look at the tags; if it's screen stars or spring ford then good job wearing that shirt, whoever you are.

also if a band has cool t-shirts that everybody likes but only a select few can appreciate the music maybe that's the band's fault one way or the other.

also if a band has cool t-shirts that everybody likes but only a select few can appreciate the music maybe that's the band's fault one way or the other.

or maybe the fact that the music is appreciated by a select few is the very thing that makes everybody like the t-shirt.

i mean, there's nothing particularly interesting about that new order t-shirt, for example, except that it's a new order t-shirt.

there's nothing particularly interesting about new order tbf

some nasty bootleg t-shirt aesthetic going on there, takes me back to going round basingstoke market on a wet saturday - the smell of the fish stall, odd bits of rotting fruit and veg on the ground, dodging the strangely oily puddles in your soggy old trainers

yeah they're mostly similarly shaped/ sized v-necks, probably all the same contemporary repro fashion company using the same blanks. assumed the new order at least was real for the reasons mentioned; there are more iconic images to reproduce that would sell better.

or maybe the fact that the music is appreciated by a select few is the very thing that makes everybody like the t-shirt.

tru more often than not, but i was thinking about this idea:

Pop kids these days wear Motorhead or Ramones t-shirts the same way that pop kids wore Bauhaus or Siouxsie and the Banshees t-shirts in the 80s - sometimes, when I'd confront people on it, they'd admit that they weren't even aware that these images/logos were for bands - they just thought that they were logos in the same way as wearing an Ocean Pacific t-shirt was in the 80s (hey, look at me, I'm a cool surfer chick, even though I live 1000 miles from the nearest ocean).

or

Wear a Tshirt of some band you never heard and when quizzed on it talk at length about the sleeve designer and say are you a fan of their work then

the design aesthetic overlaps the music but also exists as its own thing, so the cure logotype or the pc&l cover or whatever become as zeitgeisty as a keith haring image and ends in themselves rather than just functioning as signifiers of a band and the community that surrounds it. i figure if a band exists as a purveyor of visual imagery as well as musical expressions then some people are just going to interact on that level and why wouldn't they if it's good design.

The only thing I got out of this new shitshow is apparently a dude from Trans Am is in Baroness?? Holy shit

The real problem with that Darkthrone-shirted keyboard dude above is the hat. It just... doesn't work. You're not allowed to wear a hat like that with a Darkthrone t-shirt.

I wanna see pictures of death-metal guys wearing things like Katy Perry shirts

I can't find it now, but I remember having a old shot of Napalm Death pinned to the bulletin board at an old office wherein one of them was wearing a LUSH (as is Miki Berenyi/90's shoegaze) t-shirt.

Going back approx 15 years I remember being amused by Jim O'Rourke's Spice Girls t shirt.

not so much Gibby Haynes' Hanson shirt (kind of half expected it at that point)

what about a guy buying a donna summer bootleg wearing an emperor cap

Shirt bands form musicians that sound nothing like them swearing.

The only thing I got out of this new shitshow is apparently a dude from Trans Am is in Baroness?? Holy shit

lol otm

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Bruno Mars' band sporting Misfits patch, Black Flag, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, CBGBs and one unidentified shirt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4LS8cEXu8#aid=P7Yc2C87BIg

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At a quick glance I thought this was a Sandman t-shirt! Did the band copy the comic, or the other way around? (Yeah, I know Cure existed long before Sandman, but in this particular image the singer dude looks almost exactly like the protagonist of the comic.)

Except he's fat and Morpheus wasn't.

To actually answer your question, Fat Bob has looked like that since about 1983.

urine sample looks a bit cloudy

tbh Bob looks like Jaz Coleman in a wig on that shirt

I was thinking Denis Healey.

bernard cribbins as john cooper clark

To actually answer your question, Fat Bob has looked like that since about 1983.

Well yeah, I know what he looks like, but I meant that particular image in the t-shirt. A drawn image with black eyes + completely white skin + blue robes makes him look exactly like Morpheus. What year is the t-shirt from?

1375

2015.

69

It's super easy to trade up towards ever-more-rocking and authentic stuff like punk and metal. I would also like to see some punk or metal dude wearing a 80s Madonna tour shirt or something.

There's a photo above (or there was at one time) of the band Death where one of the guys is wearing a Blondie shirt.

And a video of that noted death metaller Bob Weir wearing a Madonna shirt.

Blondie is a punk band, doesn't count.

Lots of punk people like Madonna. That's a fairly easy target to aim for - someone like Tiffany or Sonia would be 'weirder'.

kylie vs sputnik :

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and i can easily see any of the sputnik boys wearing a kylie t-shirt

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who're they?

Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson!

whoa!

He got Ashlee to wear that Smiths t-shirt cos Evan knows they're fashionable now.

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cos Evan knows they're fashionable now