Band shirts?

[Guest Airjamie]

So I totaled it up the other day and since I was at least 15 ive managed to accumulate quite a collection of band t-shirts. Numbers around 100. Anyway my question was what your opinions on them were. Do you rotate several or just stick with one? It strikes me that someone who seems to wear a different band shirt everyday is kind of like the back of someone’s car, not tot mention people who play the "who has the most obscure shirt at the show" game. As for one shirt I feel like just wearing one regularly kind of becomes an identifying feature, and makes the statement of wearing it that much louder. I pretty much stopped wearing them for this reason a couple years back and now all I wear is an old white black flag t-shirt.

[Guest The Diplomatic Aristocrat]

I wear a bunch of band/artist shirts mainly for promotional reasons, I'd be at school and someone would ask me who it is and ask for a cd of them. Bam.

But wearing one everyday would be a little too much, although I wear band shirts probably 4 times a week... I should calm down on those

[phr]

i have one bad brains t-shirt.

[steven]

i can't find a "listen to slayer" shirt.... grrrr

[angrypork]

I have a shirt for a local band called What About Frank. Their logo is an M16. It catches a lot of attention.

[jwied82]

i used to buy band shirts, but band shirts almost always fit me terribly. The ones ive had ive sold at re-sale shops or on ebay since i never wore them because of the fit. Also, most graphics on band t-shirts are generally stupid.

The problem is, alot of bands use hanes or fruit of the loom or something, and adult smalls are too big for me, Youth Large are always too wide at the bottom, and American Apparel shirts, which some bands use feel noce but dont fit me all that well and everyone i try on seems to fit different anyway.

I really like it when bands have their own clothing line with the shirts tagged and sized for them, not just stock t's with a graphic screen printed on them. But the only bands i know who have this are Radiohead and Belle & Sebastian, and their merch is consistently better than most other bands.

[keri]

i have a love affair with classic rock and wear band tees fairly often. they are good as long as they fit right.

[stayhandsome]

I used to have a ton but now all I have are my friends bands shirts and one Morrissey shirt. There's also the Rza and New Order supreme shirts if you count them.

Band shirts are cool.. Just as long as they aren't devestatingly typical.

[keri]

my favorite is of course acdc, but that is much more hair rock than what you are referring to. but i do wear led zepplin, my favorite song by them is simple man, i sing it in the shower almost every morning.

i also am super fond of pink floyd, wish you were here is my fav by them, but my all time biggest obsession is, of course the doors.

I'm not like the 12 year olds, been listening to this stuff for as long as i can remember, it's what my mom and step dad used to sing to me when i was very young. i really love how everything was much cleaner, and i love old records, they have a sound that can never be duplicated using cds.

[beefcake]

i like band shirts, i feel like i'm advertising good music. i rather do that than say walk around and advert <random brand with huge logo>.

[darkanimal]

Whenever I wear my Megadeth shirt to work, I get praises from my bosses.

[LanceP]

I stopped counting at 45.

[KLAUS]

your opinion on the plaingravy nothing lasts forever tee?

[viahelsinki]

i agree about the shirts of hugely popular bands, rolling stones tees for one, used to be cool but now it's like "now you have one of those too,eh?"

[Biff15]

speaking of band shirts that fit right...

Wolfgangsvault.com

good stuff... vintage/retro at that, to boot...

[poly800rock]

i have an amazing superchunk shirt also have a los crudos shirt

[kudos]

I only wear my band shirts when I dont take showers for a few days so my hair gets greasy and my neckbeard is in full bloom.

[magus1234]

I only wear Nirvana shirts, band-wise. Everything else I dont feel like advertising:o

[notesee]

I have a couple of hip hop shirts .. shit like Wu, KMD, Non Phixion, Cormega, Masta Ace, ODB. Most of them I got for free from sandbox automatic, when I used to buy albums from that site.

I have a tee with Wendy O (from the Plasmatics) on it. I would like to get a Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures tee. And a Siouxsie tee.

[CaptMomo]

i own one glassjaw t-shirt.

and thts abt it.

[constant struggle]

I mostly wear band t shirts as opposed to other graphical t shirts, I have probably accumulated over 100 over the years. Guy with the what about frank shirt, I've heard them before, you must be from New Jersey. Dude with the bad brains shirt, that rules... same with black flag

[Indifferent]

The only t-shirts I wear are band shirts (mostly punk and metal). I find that it's a pretty good conversation starter as well.

[headcoat]

Anyone know a good online store that sells band shirts printed on AA or similarly fitting shirts? Most of my screenprinted band shirts are Hanes/FoTL and theyre so wide and short.

[lms]

I still wear an old Joy Division shirt made by one of my friend.

As red said it, some better-known bands (AC/DC, Led) are very much worn by kiddies, creating kind of a stigma for me.

Oh well, I still will rock a Wu-Tang joint. Saw one on this skater kid who had some moves few days ago.

Joy division shirts are one of the most replicated shirts, "worn by kiddies" as you hate, and you're even wearing a replicated one!

Once you're over the age of twenty or so, band t-shirts should not be the staple item in your wardrobe, even if you are involved in the music scene somehow. The notion of having over 50 band t-shirts is absurd. How often does a band you like truly produce a good looking t-shirt? And even if it were possible, 50 t-shirts of anything is excessive.

[Crillz]

and the winner is...

[lms]

and the winner is...

Are you kidding?

[Crillz]

Edit: No I am not kidding.

[evisu 2000]

don't have any 'band' t-shirts but i've got:

vp records t-shirt... which is probably one of my favorites

stones throw t-shirt

quannum t-shirt

and a rawkus hoodie.

and no i'm not a backpacker.

*edit oh i also have a blue note t-shirt but i don't know where it went. ):

[bkforever]

man i have plenty. i used to go to a lot of shoes when i was younger but as i got older i just stopped buying merch.

[mlproject]

most of mine have fallen apart over the years, but i still have a few hanging around...

- judge longsleeve

- cause for alarm (recently replaced as the old one split across the torso)

- aus-rotten (8 years old, no sleeves anymore and holes everywhere)

- a few lords shirts (by http://safearmy.com/stan/)