― mogreen, Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cybele, Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
As for etiquette, well, I think that when a band is on tour and has no time to do laundry, they will probably borrow some shirts from the merch counter and that is ok.
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 15 September 2002 19:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 15 September 2002 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
yeah, I think she could be a motorhead fan (I really do!!). why can't blonde chicks like motor head, what's so unbelievable abt it.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 15 September 2002 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Sunday, 15 September 2002 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 15 September 2002 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Motel Hell (vassifer), Sunday, 15 September 2002 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
so i guess thats not good ettiquitte?
― dsico (dsico), Monday, 16 September 2002 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not been into band t-shirts for about a year as suits took over my wardrobe but am desperately seeking a classy Motley Crue shirt since being converted to the side of hair metal upon seeing the AWESOMENESS that was G n R live at Leeds last month. But will need this shirt soon before I get bored of metal - anticipating another month of giving it up bigtime to 'Shout at the devil' before I start thinking "well it's all a bit trite isn't it?"
Another point, I'm a bit concerned about this ironic-metal t-shirt thing that's going around. I mean, I don't have the hair or dress of a rrreal rawker (more of a maudlin mod) so will I just look like some smug student prick, or can I pull it off? I mean, this ain't no ironic flit with the beast that is rawk, uh uh, I have genuine admiration for those who live the rrrock ideal to its fullest (be they fat, bald, stupid, whatever). It takes balls to rock and I'm not sure I've earned the right to display The Crue across my piegon chest yet. So please, sate my fears or explain how yes, I am a tit so I can deal with it. And yeah, if anyone knows where to get a decent Crue t-shirt from, please tell.
― Ian SPACK, Monday, 16 September 2002 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also Once when I was wearing my Merzbow T-shirt to a Spiritualized concert. (oops) somebody made fun of me say "You got the Mezbox, huh, it's really big, isn't it" (or something along that line.)
I also ran into a complete stranger at a museum in NYC who had a Merzbow shirt on when I was wearing mine, and my friend said "Whoa, another Merzbow shirt" and the guy turned around and looked frightened. I was laughing. he said his friend was had released some Merzbow albums and made T-shirts to promote it.
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 16 September 2002 02:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 16 September 2002 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Monday, 16 September 2002 05:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Monday, 16 September 2002 09:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Can such a thing exist?
I have about four or five Cop Shoot Cop t-shirts (a band I was obsessed with during their brief, tumultuous heyday), but am too much of a wimp in this post 9/11 world to wear'em anymore.
Also have a vintage Pussy Galore shirt ("From the Hate Fuck Capital City of the World...") that doesn't really win me a lot of favor.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 September 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Andrea Corr.......New York Dolls fan? I think not.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 16 September 2002 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
A teacher at my daughter’s preschool was wearing an Sweetener World Tour T-shirt… I told him “That’s so awesome!,” asked him which of the local shows he went to, etc.He could not have been less f’in interested in having that conversation…
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
Also: I was at a stand-up show recently where a young woman in the front row was wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt. The comic asked her - "Are you really a fan, or are you wearing it ironically?" She replied - "No, I'm really a fan." So he asked her what her favorite Maiden album is (they're one of his favorite bands).
There was a really long, awkward pause, and she finally said: "OK... you got me."
He cringed and was like, "You said you were a fan! I wasn't setting you up!"
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link