Band T-shirt Etiquette

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?

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.