Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

I never get this - are people supposed to be so genre-bound that they only rep for bands/musicians from their own stylistic niche?

pretty sucky life, bro.

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*REVIVE*

Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath sporting Suffocation and Venom shirts:

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mark-mcgrath-suffocation.jpg

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/l_226eff39f1494732a69f5e9e893ebb74.jpg

"Although my public/ performance personna is consistently this one thing, this t-shirt is indicative of what'd it be like to have sex with me." At least that's how I interpret that Durst photo, and the Duff one, too.

So Durst has sex like a Smiths fan and Duff loves like Motorhead.

Classic post.

I can't seem to find a freeze frame anywhere, but my favorite mismatch is the Public Enemy t-shirt on Donnie Wahlberg in the New Kids on the Block "Step by Step" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDtEPCFM0I

http://earbuds.popdose.com/pykorry/Sting%20and%20The%20Beat.jpg

...what about noize laydees wearing Manics shirts? Does that count?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2656404984_31397e7cc6.jpg

i always thought it would be funny if some trendy new act wore the shirts of really naff bands like sublime or hoobastank.

hate this q so much

surprise, very few musicians only want to rep for music that sounds like what they do. because, shocker, musicians like lots of different kinds of music. WOW INCREDIBLE THEY MUST BE POSING BY WEARING SHIRTS FOR BANDS THAT DON'T SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY DO.

No one said anything about "posing" -- I thought this was just a thread for pictures of musicians in other bands' shirts.

yeah I know it's just it always feels like this implicit "no way Avril likes the Ramones, after all she sucks!" vibe (we had a huge throwdown about that way back) and while I am a little sympathetic to the position "a person should only wear a band/musician t-shirt if they actually like that band/musician" I am deeply unsympathetic to the position "a person whose music I hate couldn't love music I like, it is at the least very unlikely"

http://www.fctvplus.net/~cdzingg/lucinda/roseland.jpg

http://www.fctvplus.net/~cdzingg/lucinda/roseland.jpg

there are explicit refutations of that position you hate in this thread, aero, not least from its creator.

i mean PE in minor threat tees is just the sort of pluralism that i find cool in visual representation, but no u gotta go rail against something

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.

I think it's a sex code thing more than an overt statement of affiliation with any particular band/ genre. It's like they're saying, "Although my public/ performance personna is consistently this one thing, this t-shirt is indicative of what'd it be like to have sex with me." At least that's how I interpret that Durst photo, and the Duff one, too.

two examples from this thread

This thread would be a lot more fun if it it was less "LOL FAMOUS PERSON DOESN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT BAND AS ME BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY BEING FAMOUS" and was more "Hey, isn't this neat?"

We're all adults, the fact that one of the jocks likes your favorite band should have stopped bothering you, like, freshman year of college.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:47 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

what I agree w/

you realize you are defending hillary duff

j-just checking

just because we're divorced does not mean I won't rep for her

ok I can understand that but I have no idea why you would rep for durst when he wouldn't even give you a call on father's day

Chuck Schuldiner from Death in a Blondie shirt. No doubt his stylist made him wear it.

I think it's a sex code thing

Like a particularly-colored handkerchief in a particular pocket?

Nothing will be as epic/awesome as Jordan in a Bauhaus t-shirt anyway.

How about Angelina Jolie in Crass?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mk62Yz-snR4/S7EMWnW5IYI/AAAAAAAAA8o/JQfM4qPZtQ4/s1600/jolie2pt.jpg

"I've studied my flaws in your reflection
And put them to rights with savage correction
I've turned my statuesque perfection
And shone it over in your direction"

...seems about right.

Check out Bob Weir's shirt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3NTMYtggo

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/l_226eff39f1494732a69f5e9e893ebb74.jpg

There's a band called 'kenan'!?

Well, one of my friends was deeply into tepid indie bollocks, but regularly wore a t-shirt that proclaimed "McFly are actually quite good"!!!!!!!!!

And, what's more, he wasn't being ironic!!!!!! He actually quite liked McFly!!!!! That's why wore so often!!!!!!!

So there!!!!!!!

PE in minor threat tees actually makes like tons of sense to me, in the glen e. friedman type way

http://i51.tinypic.com/24y8dqw.jpg

They could never top the Bauhaus t-shirt in the Right Stuff vid, but at least they tried.

http://www.onlineticketmarket.com/media/gbu0/prodsm/basementjaxx.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/189665_521296644550042_724042824_n.jpg

An offended Alex In NYC posted this on his Facebook page with the comment: "If Chris Brown can name a single song by the Exploited, I'll eat my sneakers."

honestly the blue collar & pockets are the more offensive things about that jacket

cro-swags

http://i.imgur.com/liCw4.png

I sincerely love it every time this happens and will never ever ever get bored of it

counting crows dude loving VU -- esp loaded -- doesn't really seem surprising at all IMO

i agree but it fits the "sound nothing like them" bill well enough

every counting crows record is at least as good as loaded

i dunno abt that but i like "a long december" more than "lonesome cowboy bill"

honestly the blue collar & pockets are the more offensive things about that jacket

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 19, 2012 1:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cr it bothers me less that he's repping bands he most likely has never heard and more how bad he looks

chris brown and harley flanagan would probably get along

every counting crows record is at least as good as loaded
lolz, i always enjoy aero's unrelenting loaded hate.

at my funeral my life's work, a screed entitled Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis Loadedis, will be read by mourners as a copy of the master tape is backed over by a monster truck

and then a choir sings a sweet version of oh sweet nuthin followed up by a rootin tootin cowboy bill!

is that all the monster truck is going to do at your funeral? I mean you might as well give folks a full show.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzafozhhdm1qb3or7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/xsdrrx/ak.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzafozhhdm1qb3or7.jpg

is the 1st one ke$ha?

y

all these famouses are already on t-shirts and have identities that are reducible to a t-shirt. they're walking t-shirts themselves. the semiotics of a walking t-shirt wearing a t-shirt are going to be different than those of a civilian wearing the same shirt.

like i could subsume my identity in a smiths shirt but durst can't recede in the same way. he can only scramble the durst signal, redirect it, attempt counterpoint or amplification, or point to something interior but he can't lose himself in the smiths signal.

not sayin these ppl can't wear a band shirt for the same reasons as anybody else but ilx and authorial intent etc..

What yr sayin' is, it's quite possible that a famous wearing a tshirt could in itself become a t-shirt with meaning, but a famous could not wear that shirt because π

you mean like durst wearing a shirt that has a pic of duff wearing a motorhead shirt? only if that was an officially merchandised duff shirt, and the duff/ motorhead conflict collapsed into a singularity. otherwise it's just a dickhead wearing some shirt.

here's someone wondering, seemingly in earnest, why Chris Brown didn't save money by making his own punk rock jacket: http://www.aux.tv/2012/11/chris-brown-finally-kills-punk-rock-with-patched-up-leather-jacket-featuring-exploited-municipal-waste-and-cro-mags-patches/

"A site like Interpunk sells band patches for about $3-4 a piece"

never realised that the look of 'DOOM' from the game Doom was p. much directly inspired from the look of 'DOOM' from the band Doom

Surf pop band Best Coast loves them some Metallica... Maybe it's because they played the Orion Festival?

http://www.bestcoast.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bc_02-shot2_0148.jpeg http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/2012BestCoast03PR190612.jpg

I don't know what tee the girl is rockin' in the second shot though... Anyone?

Fleetwood Mac. Maybe the two of them just swap shirts.

Kinky.

The guitar/vocalist dude from JEFF The Brotherhood likes his metal bands too, or at least metal band shirts...

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/120323-jeff.png
http://impose.vaesite.net/__data/jeff-the-brotherhood.26.jpg

This one hurts my head. Not the Christina Black Flag tee but, um, a Skrewdriver shirt for her kid? Really? Maybe this is a shop (he asks hopefully)?

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/q71/39296_10151727362551738_1495449645_n.jpg

it's from the blog "Black Flag Shirts on Every Celebrity".

Xtina was quoted in a interview about the Dale Nixon situation for My War

Maybe this is a shop (he asks hopefully)?

c'mon man you posted this shit. you so hope this isn't a shop.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/970883_640427602648670_1782894958_n.jpg

This thread would be a lot more fun if it it was less "LOL FAMOUS PERSON DOESN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT BAND AS ME BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY BEING FAMOUS" and was more "Hey, isn't this neat?"

so this here is ke$ha and i think it's all kinds of neat:

http://media.tumblr.com/6540ffddd13575f2cbab6db24380ef7d/tumblr_inline_mlqtxzhnu21qz4rgp.png

Did you catch the Ke$ha/Residents controversy from like a month ago?

http://www.stereogum.com/1399322/did-kehas-stage-show-rip-off-the-residents/news/

Also, the kid's Big Bad Wolf shirt is awesome.

The interesting thing about this is that ideally while people should wear tshirts of other musicians if they sound nothing like them, when it comes to places the opposite is true and they should only wear a tshirt of a place they have actually been to

Oh yeah, no way would that little guy have met the height requirements for the Big Bad Wolf.

although funnily enough he would have met the white requirements for Skrewdriver.

lol

Probably not though, because he's half Jewish and a quarter Hispanic.

Did you catch the Ke$ha/Residents controversy from like a month ago?

the awesome thing about that story is that the residents, who have never ever ever appropriated another artists' image, nope, not them, are now concerned in an apparently lawyerly way about someone appropriating theirs.

yeah because there is no difference between the Residents and THE BEATLES

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/vinnie-jones-claims-immigration-has-made-england-unrecognisable-and-not-the-country-i-grew-up-in-8795617.html

definitely the most offensive thing about this story and the total wasteman in it is that he made me spend five minutes trying to verify if he's wearing a Sir Lord Baltimore shirt in the pic (he isn't)

the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star said that England was “past its sell by date.”

Funny sentence that. What IS the shirt?

Oh, I see now.

The new brand from CHRISTIAN AUDIGIER - Lord Baltimore and Lady Baltimore apparel is putting a new spin ...

oh and in case any pedants wanted to try and make out that Vinnie isn't a musician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqsynmyWRY

I haven't heard Lorde that I know of but I am pretty sure she doesn't sound like The Cra,ps.

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/s720x720/1554482_10153775633320438_1703270375_n.jpg

Or The Cramps. She might sound like crap for all I know.

The Craps - Chicago-based Cramps tribute band.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1/q71/s720x720/1469976_713973348613165_199508708_n.jpg

Bonjour et bienvenue à tous sur la version 3.0 du site des Craps !

Sur ce site, vous trouverez une petite description de notre band. Ne tardez pas non plus à découvrir nos “Setlist” ainsi que nos dates de concerts.

En espérant vous rencontrer bientôt, vous, les nombreux fan’s des “Craps” !

La Craps Team

Word from Lorde's publicist (who I'm friendly with) is that she's actually a Cramps fan. As such, I look forward to her inevitable cover of "Goo Goo Muck."

"Surfin' Bird" surely

Former Vivian Girls bassist's solo record has her album cover put her in this thread:

http://exclaim.ca/images/la4.jpg

I've long had a hunch that Poison Idea would follow after the Ramones then Motorhead then Black Flag T-shirt photo opportunities were depleted.

Shaina Twain in a Ramones shirt.

http://vassifer.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c18b253ef014e8bcbec59970d-450wi

the oompah makes this song work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n0e7BpEvzU

http://downtownmusic.net/images/6/6539a64a5cf581a998fc6d07f82e23b0028dea11.jpg

nyc-n why is t-shirt authenticity so important to your spirituality

you know wearing a t-shirt is not the same thing as being a person right

it's like in trading places when louis sees billy ray being driven around in his car and wearing his harvard repp tie and he's more upset about the tie than the car.

i love that he thinks kickball katy, who has been in the nyc underground for like 7 years, is some poser for wearing a poison idea shirt

is the thread title not worded so we can at least attempt to catalogue these instances w/o getting Alex in NYC abt it

xpost, i mean't bendy not nyc

(xp) based on thread title, it would probably be fair to post every photo of every musician who has ever worn a band t-shirt -- even, in some instances, musicians wearing their own band's t-shirt.

Not saying Katy is a poser, but I'm guessing she's leading the way for subsequent Poison Idea t-shirt appearances.

ILXors Are Pretentious Assholes

pick your zing

I realize that people reading the first posts in a 6 1/2 year old thread are not likely.

But for those who are thinking this thread is about people making fun of people for wearing shirts they shouldn't, or whatever, we had that argument 6 1/2 years ago.

We're not (for the most part) being elitist, pointing and laughing at the "posers" or whatever. We're just posting pictures.

As the guy who started the thread, I think it's pretty cool when some pop star wears a Ramones, Motorhead or Darkthrone shirt.

Speaking of which, who is the Darkthrone-tee-shirted keyboardist above?

http://www.phaidon.com/resource/art-miami-moby.jpg

Speaking of which, who is the Darkthrone-tee-shirted keyboardist above?

some totally inauthentic pretensious asshole

aren't vivian girls and poison idea both punk bands? not sure i follow..

You know that female musicians just spend all day sitting around thinking "what t-shirt can I wear that will piss the *most* dudes off?"

It's true; this is totally a thing. We have meetings and stuff.

Anyway, I'm just gonna keep posting this picture more and more because it makes me laugh so much.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/d6289563957506af2fa77ce0a6f19d21/tumblr_n15dr8Cw911rjw8sqo1_1280.jpg

DUDES.

lol at dominique

Speaking of which, who is the Darkthrone-tee-shirted keyboardist above?

some totally inauthentic pretensious asshole

sorry it's me, and no, my music doesn't sound anything like Darkthrone

the shirt + hat combo is impressive

No one finds dudes from a wimpy indie boyband in Mortician and AC/DC shirts funny? No one?

Oh, I give up.

http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/punk-take/daft-punk-guys-take-helmets-off-for-flight-out-of-los-angeles-03.jpg

sorry it's me, and no, my music doesn't sound anything like Darkthrone

No one finds dudes from a wimpy indie boyband in Mortician and AC/DC shirts funny? No one?

tbh I have absolutely no idea who that is.

I am *shocked* that Moby would be wearing a Bad Brains t-shirt, I mean it's not like he was in an early 80s hardcore band or anything.

It's the Lead Hipster from Interpol and his similarly indie-sounding solo-ish band, dressed up as metal dudes for a joke. (One of them is actually quite seriously into metal, see if you can spot which one, and actually they were taking the piss out of that guy by dressing like that; but, that band still sounds absolutely nothing like any of the bands on those shirts.)

((I guess maybe it would have been more obvious if I'd picked the one where he is not just wearing an ironic Van Halen t-shirt but also a *trucker hat* for maximum hipster points, but the wall of all four of them is funnier than just the one.))

OH GOD I AM TALKING ABOUT INTERPOL AGAIN, SHOOT ME. This is starting to reach OCD proportions.

But, y'know, hipster boy-dudes in metal shirts don't even pass notice, while the girl-bassist from an actual punk band wearing a punk t-shirt is OMG THE VAPOURS HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE.

im with mark. no idea who that band was. Im gonna have a guess its your latest faves Interpol?

xp

i saw a girl in a t shirt the other day. it wasn't even a rock n roll shirt, it was just the honey nut cheerios bee. but it made me wonder - has she ever even had honey nut cheerios?

I thought the band in BB's pic was Metallica, so I was like, "what's so weird about Metallica wearing AC/DC shirts?". (Though TBH I have no idea what Interpol sounds like, but I take your word that they're not like AC/DC.)

Tuomas do you know what AC/DC sounds like? :)

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

saw a girl being lifted into an ambulance while wearing a tiara and L plates. call me a rockist but I had grave doubts that she was actual royalty, or a car

Simon Ratclife of Basement jaxx

http://cdn3.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/article29485245.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/FEA_20130809_Lif_038_28520096_I3.JPG

Some chick in a band, somewhere:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/772adb253a64ecb0b5caa6811e063df0/tumblr_n1eki9wGMb1rjw8sqo1_1280.jpg

No one finds dudes from a wimpy indie boyband in Mortician and AC/DC shirts funny? No one?

Oh, I give up.

― Combat Bodacious Accruals (Branwell Bell), Friday, February 21, 2014 5:33 PM (Yesterday)

that's a duck dynasty shirt on the guy 2nd from right

ha it looks like it should be some old NWOBHM band's insignia or something

Isn't that Seb from Trans Am / Baroness in Paul Banks band?

rock band interpol wear a rock band t-shirt and a matching trouser as "joke"
flipin hilirios

great thread.

Firstly, it's not "Interpol" it's Paul Banks' solo band. Interpol do not *do* t-shirts, or jeans. It is against their ~design aesthetic~. Or, erm, something.

Secondly, I actually have no idea what the name of Paul Banks' solo band's drummer is. Sorry. I totally fail at fangirl. It would, however, be quite funny if Banks' band were comprised of all those hard rock and metalish dudes and yet still managed to sound not in the slightest bit hard or even rock. :-P

I would really love an actual

YOUR
FAVORITE
BAND

shirt

As opposed to a YOUR FAVOURITE BAND shirt, which being in the U.S. would look like an affectation. Just like all the band t-shirts I wear!

http://news.qthemusic.com/2012/09/qa_paul_banks_-_the_interpol_f.html

Banks confirms in this interview that it's Seb from Trans Am.

i saw a girl in a t shirt the other day. it wasn't even a rock n roll shirt, it was just the honey nut cheerios bee. but it made me wonder - has she ever even had honey nut cheerios?

― contenderizer, Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:32 AM (12 hours ago)

ps lol I am totally stealing this

No one IRL ever actually gives a flying fuck or is sexist about any band t-shirt I wear or have worn in my 15+ years of IRL bad fashion sense
I had hoped for years as a teenager in a podunk town that wearing a Sonic Youth shirt would be a great way to meet likeminded souls
Turns out it's true but all the likeminded souls are men twice your age who just want to read a teenage girl's boobs

maybe being too harsh with that last line

NB tho I don't perform music

Really, I swear to god I was trying to research whether that was Paul Banks' drummer or not, but then I fell into a hole on Tumblr and after 40 pages of haircuts I completely forgot what I was looking for so cheers, yeah?

http://media.tumblr.com/9e130d7615563fe779529e038f2d8889/tumblr_inline_mtcd315V2S1qfyule.jpg

WAIT. Actually, reading the interview, and remembering tweets from him and various fans and his band, the guy in the photo is Charles, not Seb. The other guy that isn't Brandon Curtis is Damien something or other.

Aw, reading that interview reminded me how much I really like that Banks record. It's a cute record.

(I am now totally going to make a YOUR FAVOURITE BAND shirt for myself. And not just in photoshop, either)

I had hoped for years as a teenager in a podunk town that wearing a Sonic Youth shirt would be a great way to meet likeminded souls

Ha yeah, except my boobs were never worth reading even for guys twice my age, so it never worked for me on even that level. Still tho it's not like I've ever gone the other way and struck up conversation with someone about their t-shirt so I guess I am the problem too.

(OK, I did once: I excitedly told someone in a Kitty Kitty Corporation t-shirt "nice shirt, I love Quickspace and Ligament!!1" at a gig I was sort-of-running and she looked mutely terrified and left the gig before the music started and I suspect never came to any of our other gigs again. Sorry to that person.

I was probably being a gatekeeping asshole myself anyway bcz I was probably secretly hoping they would say "I have never heard of Ligament, you are better at having heard bands than me and I am unworthy of this t-shirt" or sth. I have no idea what this post is even about, sorry)

I have totally, in the past, struck up conversations with random strangers about the brilliant T-shirts that they were wearing! (I also used to drink a lot more heavily in the past, so I would strike up conversations with random strangers over just about anything.)

**now goes back to studying guitar solos in live Interpol videos jesus fucking christ how does he do that**

I often strike up convos with people based on their outfits. They generally seem happy to be talking with me.

someone told me i couldn't wear the doctor who shirt i was wearing because i didn't know it was a doctor who shirt. I just thought it was a shirt with a messed up police box on it.

I met one of my best friends in this town through him seeing me wearing semi-obscure tweepop band t-shirts and coming over and saying hi and stuff, mind you maybe 75% of my t-shirts are band ones. Another 20% being record label tees.

i am pretty sure that no member of Metallica excels at puppetry tbh

i will occasionally compliment people on their band tshirts, but because i know in advance that it will be completely weird & awkward, i try do it in a glancing way, so that by the time my comment registers, i'm already halfway out the door (figurative if need be). more social interaction should be conducted in this fashion, imo.

all my social interaction is conducted in that fashion

ha, saw someone last night wearing a flying saucer attack t-shirt and wanted to say something but didn't (was most curious about how new it looked, was pristine)

Kitty Kitty Corporation t-shirt

i wish i had one of these. the logo is super cute.

I figure talking *to* someone (note operative preposition) about their T-shirts is fairly relaxed, because it is something they've chosen, a taste marker they are displaying, and hence it's not *inherently* rude to politely compliment.

But like any other human interaction, yes, this is depending on following, y'know, basic guidelines of respect, and before you protest "OMG who would not show respect" realise that there are many many people who do not, or who just think that music fans who code female don't *deserve* that respect. Coming up to me after soundcheck and saying "Great Hawkwind T-shirt, what's your favourite album" would get you a 5-minute conversation on Doremi vs Quark Strangeness and Charm. Standing in front of me as I pack up my big muffs, and loudly saying "I bet she can't even name a Stooges song!" will get you a punch in the nose!

Show respect and treat the person as your equal! Even if they are a musician who happens to look female! And if you find yourself only ever directing t-shirt questions at members of your target gender, but never your own, Don't Be That Guy.

There's a big difference between "wow, that Spacemen 3 t-shirt looks so beat up, I bet it could tell a few stories" (or even "that's a pristine shirt, did they reform or something?") vs the guy who stares at your breasts for 20 minutes before accusing something like "that is in the Spacemen 3 font but it is not a Spacemen 3 t-shirt who ripped it off what a poseur" because they have never heard of Other Music despite being at a drone show. That weird kinda half-bravaggio half-contempt tone that some dudes get when they talk to female persons like I don't even think they realise how gross it is. There is nothing wrong with the thing in itself, but there is a hell of a lot wrong with how some people do it!

(I mean, what pisses me off about that story I told on the other thread is... y'know, the actual band t-shirts I have got actual shit for, these bands were *not* even obscure or anything. Like, how fucking insulting is it to assume that a musician in a garage band has never heard the Stooges, y'know? That's what made it so over the top sexist.)

Our Alice (probably about 10 then) saw a Ramones t-shirt in the window of Oxfam Reading, so she cadged the fiver off me and went in for it.

The Scottish guy who runs the shop was a little "Oh, you like the ramones then?" but she gave him chapter and verse about the first album and how "Rock and roll high school" was her favourite film when she was five, etc. He was very "Really? Wow, ok then"

Film That, Nick Hornby!

Yeah, what BB said..

There is that 'hey, justify yr t-shirt' edge maybe, but sometimes people have liked my t-shirt or asked about it and I daresay Alice would get people seeing her wearing it and just assume it's bought in topshop, but as she says "If it has Tommy's name it's probably not a real one"

Fuck bands, I'm now going to start wearing t-shirts with the names of heritage apple varieties.

YEAH MAN I JUST PLANTED A PEABODY NONESUCH. I bet you've never so much as eaten a pippin; get tae fuck.

nice. " actually, it's a better cider apple..."

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.

Fucking progress, man.

We have grown.

Your thread sucked. Now it is better. Deal with it.

Go fuck yourself.

your favourite thread sucks

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/stevecardiacs.jpg

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.

https://24.media.tumblr.com/162a4a4ff880036768d90d62ae9fe10e/tumblr_n1indrqNAN1qaxybpo1_400.png

Demi does this a lot.
http://i58.tinypic.com/2rr6nph.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/3358vvk.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/2ent108.jpg
http://i59.tinypic.com/2lvbel3.jpg
http://i59.tinypic.com/adks2s.jpg

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

http://a.bimg.dk/node-images/152/4/620x411-c/4152476-nick-cave.jpg

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

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2rr6nph.jpg

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 :

http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/3897869/large.jpg

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

http://i61.tinypic.com/30s7itw.jpg

http://i61.tinypic.com/nn8soo.jpg

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.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2u5s1hy.jpg

cos Evan knows they're fashionable now

ashlee is totally trying to be the next supreme.

Shane Embury from Napalm Death in a Cardiacs shirt. He never seemed to be without it for nearly every photo-shoot from this period.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F--AhRu11TY/TTIYLlHkGdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/j56AMDTd1MA/s1600/873854.jpg

good spot. that's a still from the interview for bbc2's snub-tv iirc

Is it not from Arena: Thrashed To Death? Bill and Shane laugh at Day Of The Dead later, and Bill draws a mind map from Venom to Napalm Death on a napkin.

It's from the Arena Heavy Metal doc. Loved that. Mick Harris: "You can't play Motorhead at 100mph? Course ye can!"

Katy Perry, apparently:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/p320x320/1012132_10152512809557262_1781785523_n.jpg

http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/imagery/82036-1.jpg

aware that this doesn't literally conform to the specifics of the thread title but w/e. <3 HMD

Re Napalm Death/Cardiacs t-shirt, Napalm Death just released a charity download Cardiacs cover (To Go Off And Things)

In honor of the current poll...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5t3avBIPnKU/UiHsHqwohII/AAAAAAAAAIk/xtc3s5IA51Y/s1600/Sleater-Kinney.jpg

Of course, Corin was wearing it because 'Marshall' is also her son's name.

yeah, not actually so surprised Napalm Death would be into Cardiacs -- a lot of "extreme" musicians love em

So apparently this is Joe Jonas?!?!?!?!?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlcUORJCEAABopX.jpg

R&B singer Kiki Rowe wearing what I am pretty sure is a Misfits skull on her top...

http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/496704283027333121/TXvru-Rh.jpeg

Ryan Adams is on the right in this photo.

http://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/11149742_10153287875065452_5325602295161591575_o.jpg

I'm not sure who that is in the middle, but Ian McKaye and Ryan Adams is a strong candidate for Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Except for the part about being happy about it or anything.

Hope Ryan gets that job at Hot Topic.

pp, it's keith morris

keith wearing a very in character t-shirt

two famous middle-aged American musicians with punk rock backgrounds meeting each other doesn't strike me as hugely surprising

maybe if it was a photo of Ryan doing a load of coke off a glass table while Ian looked on. or indeed vice versa

two famous middle-aged American musicians with punk rock backgrounds meeting each other doesn't strike me as hugely surprising

And you're speaking of Ian and Keith, right? The two guys with punk rock backgrounds.

http://pleasekillme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/peterhook-660x400.jpg

Peter Hook rocking his Motorhead tee.

Well, a Motorhead-inspired shirt at any rate...

http://www.genesissurfshop.com/shop/images/OGT-tee-motorshed-1.jpg

From the page selling the damn thing: "Old Guys Rule tee shirt Motorshed place of spades in black. Great gift idea for an old time motorhead fan who now spends more time in the shed than rocking out to motorhead!"

http://cdn.allsongs.tv/image/fee19a72-251f-435e-9b1b-be4d166ff266/kanye-west-glastonbury-maxw-1920.jpg

Probably needs further investigation but I spotted it on the video: Kanye at Glastonbury.

The bleach patch on his left shoulder has NIKKI SIXX MICK MARS TOMMY LEE VINCE NEIL written in it in marker. Only Nikki Sixx is really clear in the picture.

http://newtelegraphonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Kanye-West-Glastonbury.jpg

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/kanye-forgets-queen-words.jpg

ahh .. interesting, i was trying to figure out what it said on saturday ..

http://i.imgur.com/HJjgcTa.jpg

Really chasing the AARP demographic. A good career move for am aging band.

I don't know what Yellow Claw sound like, but I am pretty sure it ain't Black Flag.

https://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12107918_10156154067125597_6395500613442040874_n.jpg?oh=804920c7febc78e458055e214c7fddf5&oe=5697089A

i feel like every techno dj on the planet has worn a black flag short at some point

Well they produce a lot of hardcore, but the *other* kind of hardcore.

Maybe this thread should be closed down and a permanent link to Urban Outfitters posted instead.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549/p02cz94b.jpg

going on their wiki page Yellow Claw sound like the most Dutch thing ever

the dude's shirt seems to be some sort of bespoke thing, the lettering is behind the scissors on the design?

lol I'm even boring myself now

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/12108020_10206538135230053_4438635162634169626_n.jpg?oh=ab49bfd7bf7432bbb0cacb5eb5f2585d&oe=56B3336F

I've been on a Dead bender these last few days, so that really mellows my trip right about now.

(I'm sober, I swear)

http://www.metalinjection.net/around-the-interwebs/metal-fans-are-upset-justin-bieber-wore-a-metallica-shirt

Seems like you could really write any story imaginable by sourcing 9 tweets.

Yeah, as long as you sign off by writing:

Why is everybody so offended? Metallica shirts are everywhere! Are there not bigger things to be upset about?

"...Thanks for clicking tho."

Timbaland is the latest hip-hop/R&B type to be seen sporting a punk rock jacket, his being leather and adorned with Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, Crass and the like logos.

The Metal injection website reports on it with some of the snide commentary that we don't use here because we liek that sort of thing.

http://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Timbaland-jacket-front.jpg?fit=750%2C1000
http://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Timbaland-jacket-back.jpg?resize=700%2C394

The website has a link to the interview.

This couch is definitely a poser.

http://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/12418934_10156558771820597_8871621568344737124_o.jpg

Lol

singer of thursday

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Thursday_%40_Claremont_Showgrounds_%285_3_2012%29_%287005619497%29.jpg

hahaha that's amazing.

tbf Lou Donaldson is the most emo soul jazz artist

See James Hetfield Evaluate Celebrities Wearing Metallica Tees

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/10/16/380DD40400000578-3783145-Big_sis_Solange_s_sister_is_powerhouse_singer_Beyonce_seen_here_-m-14_1473519708194.jpg

Surprised no one mentioned Lady Gaga wearing a Les Rallizes Denudes t-shirt a while ago.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1329536153835539&id=305019549620543

Kanye in a Pop Group shirt, for people who don't Facebook.

Alex in NYC brought this to my attention:
Message to Kids: Rush Isn’t Cool

This article by Andy Cush at Spin.com was prompted by Travis Scott wearing a Rush shirt at the Grammys.

http://www.rushisaband.com/images/201902/4243.f.jpg

Even funnier to me is that it was evidently Kylie Jenner's shirt which likely infuriates a lot of people to no end. It certainly upset Alex.

http://scontent.fphl2-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/52598144_10161458281685597_3781236117307654144_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_eui2=AeHJ0Yb_VZq6Bo0NCcXq1iHqDgAbhuebAwF8Z4pefNcsDtp57FvGDjnMXwrDNwO0-wUEmMirrqwqgyl5X5TewNif_SYw3paEGTElwQQvavN2Ww&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-3.fna&oh=7d0241262d2caf639efdaf1a4f4622e4&oe=5CB3A15B

I find the article lame for a bunch of reasons, but they have nothing to do with being mad anyone is wearing a Rush shirt.

https://images.complex.com/complex/images/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/drzyyjesbn8v4vackohi/kendrick-2019-project

^ Kendrick stans for Oasis

King Crimson is just as dorky and isn't on Spotify.

Thought thread revive would be for this

https://i.imgur.com/iXrydv3.jpg

I still think the article is actually lovingly praising Rush but either I'm way off or everyone else is misunderstanding it, based on social media.

I don't think a Rush hater would reel off their proggiest deep cuts like that.

Hannah is punk now! ☠️ pic.twitter.com/I4nUdajchD

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 29, 2019

Pimp C (RIP) of UGK wearing a Nirvana "Sliver/Dive" shirt in the "Use Me Up" video (1992):

https://i.imgur.com/H9JqbKE.jpg

I can’t find it right now, but there’s a recent-ish selfie of David Sylvian sporting a black Boris (the Japanese noisegaze band) T-shirt.

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Article_Width/1707/sufjan-stevens-announces-new-icarrie-lowelli-live-album.jpg

Sufjan Stevens wearing a Sannhet t-shirt.

Joe McPhee, about 3 hours ago...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/479VGdkEOOU/hqdefault.jpg

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

When fashion dictates . . .

lotta pics not showing up but i feel like that idiot Ryan ADams must have been the king of this?

Well excuse me if I, wear another band's shirt tonite....

https://i.imgur.com/37E2T1Q.png

Chuck Mosley of Faith No More

Joe McPhee does kinda sound like AC/DC sometimes

the rest of them look like adorable babies (in the care of an extremely irresponsible adult)

maybe in the care of an RA who is three years older than the rest of them

https://i.imgur.com/6zIj41R.jpg

HAGAR: "There's only one way to RULE!"

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

/Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a🕸

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink/

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

DJ Tiësto:

https://6ad84eux9zs4.b-cdn.net/w_1280,h_720/s3-top-40/552fb538-1bc0-4cce-a6d3-daa497f7d67c.jpg

i dunno - anthemic, maximalist, relentless, slightly oppressive?

spotted this today: david van day wearing springsteen shirt.

https://img.discogs.com/-pZ4UCdQVh6hTc-xak_owE36CdQ=/fit-in/496x503/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1900281-1299117706.jpeg.jpg

I love that Demi Lovato was wearing a Voivod shirt!

http://www.wearethepit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album-678x381.png

https://www.wearethepit.com/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album/

I’m trying to think of which of them I’d rather listen to

What's the appeal of a Voivod album signed by Demi Lovato?

https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E21/1091139.jpg

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/320054330_1315951829166464_6512379042352385144_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=Syxi9-D-Vv8AX9ZecVX&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfC23BtJhrzdItEFzBaKGly6lbs78MHBsbvR2rYQcuMeZw&oe=639FC6A8

Paul Westerberg wearing a New Edition T-shirt.

Composer and Grammy-nominated songwriter and cellist Michael Peter Olsen.

http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bc35de4b0be593a36780f/2b130e4e-aa3b-4748-b3ef-38b486f0afbb/IMG_4188.jpg?format=2500w

Doesn't sound remotely like Darkthrone.

Whoa, Peter Cetera’s wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt in the video for “You’re The Inspiration” haha pic.twitter.com/gwdyXshHE2

— Bafflegabs! (@Bafflegabs) December 28, 2023

Glory of Love and Rockets

NYC singer songwriter Margaret Glaspy, in Meshuggah.

https://nippertown.com/zeblog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190609-Margaret_Glaspy-4-2048x1638.jpg.webp

Chris Martin wears a Stones shirt in the video for Shiver. I'm sure it's easy to draw lines between periods of the Stones and Coldplay now but not on the latter's first single.

Here's Blondshell wearing a Neil Young & Crazy Horse shirt (there may be an affinity there, but I wouldn't have made the link). Killer performance, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vzTWY9m14

Hahaha re: Peter Cetera. I thought "surely that was Photoshopped?" but yeah, it's in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfy1yorkec
And right at the beginning, someone (not in the band) is wearing a Public Image Ltd. shirt.
I had that same Bauhaus t-shirt, which I wore so much it was sheer, like in this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/deterioration-of-bauhaus-t-shirt-symbolizes-end-of-era-1819565153

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobe_stylist

not at all the same thing but there's an episode of the vicar of dibley with a cameon from a crusty-like character wearing a cardiacs shirt

cameo

Lana Del Rey's guitarist Blake Stranathan

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/W21RHB/lana-del-rey-performs-on-the-pyramid-stage-with-guitarist-blake-stranathan-blake-lee-on-the-saturday-of-glastonbury-festival-in-pilton-somerset-28-june-2014-W21RHB.jpg

Darius Rucker is wearing a Metallica T-shirt while playing a countryfied version of “Hold My Hand” on #CNNNYE

this isn't the most noteworthy example, but Lynn Canfield (frontwoman of the dreampop group The Moon Seven Times) wore a Third Stone t-shirt at a reunion show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqcar7lON0

Third Stone being a long dead Alice in Chains knockoff band from Illinois. there's an awkward moment at the 4:00 mark where Lynn namechecks the band and a heckler calls out, "are you sleeping with somebody in that band?" (Lynn: "nope...are you?")