Band T-shirt Etiquette

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.

Andrea Corr.......New York Dolls fan? I think not.

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?

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.

chris, you have such a bad 'tude!

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.

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.?

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Am I really supposed to believe that Mr.Timberlake even *KNOWS* who the MC5 are? Please!

Dare you to respond to this. I'm calling you all out.

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*

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.

Not only do you have stupid friends but you are a rascist as well.

Ojala

Only 'cause Jon didn't see it, I bet.

By the way, YOU STARTED IT. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

Didn't realize your damn silly name represented an entire race. A little presumptious and egocentric, no?