In my spare time, I want to appear timelessly cool in a carefree way. What t-shirts should I wear then?

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All righty, I've got my old Ramones t-shirt, black w/ white which has Tommy listed as the drummer, so it's old and it looks it, therefore it is cool. I have a black Motorhead shirt with the white skull warthog thing with the horns in the cheeks. Also old : : cool. I need 3 more shirts. That way I'll have one for every day of the work week and I can be a uniformed rocker in my spare time. 5 more shirts would be great because that would include the weekends, too, but let's not push it. I doubt there are that many cool shirts out there. Band shirts = tacky unless they are old and well worn with a tried and true band logo (and even then, too). I saw a dude in the record store with an old Venom shirt and it looked cool (it was black with the white devil head from Black Metal), but I dunno... certain people might not think I'm cool with a Venom shirt. I want to be cool, after all. Let's not forget that fact. Someone needs to look at me and go, "Yeah, he's a real rocker and he doesn't even care. I really respect that in a guy with a t-shirt on."

Therefore, no Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy (I've never seen a good Black Sabbath shirt, either), Sex Pistols/Sid Vicious or Motley Crue t-shirts. No grunge t-shirts. Those are all shitty shirts. I would not feel cool at all in any of those.

This is a real dilemma here.

― Nude SPock, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suggest not wearing band T-shirts.

― Ian, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, wot about a new answers shirt? New Answers : good band name or not?

― Anonymous Random Poster, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ian, that's preposterous! (Actually, I don't. Just when I'm doin' the laundry). But, I was actually thinking of getting some, you know, just like you'd get a green shirt or something, just to be able to throw on. Then I realized, hey, I don't feel like being an advertisement for almost any band. Then, I posted this.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What you need is a 'blur: are shite' t-shirt. I will trade one massively too large 'blur: are shite' t-shirt for a size small Birthday Party shirt, if there is such a thing.
It seems to me I would be unwilling to wear a pop band t-shirt, I think a proper band t-shirt ought to be for something that hurts yr ears. Do Melt- Banana have shirts? Ruins? Boredoms? Me, I'd like to have one Japanese noise band shirt for each day of the week.

― daria gray, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want a "mogwai and blur: are shite" shirt. And one that says "joan jett: is tremendous". I will pay.

― dan, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two of my most prized shirt are from Melt-Banana. I'm also quite proud of my Dirtbombs, Motorpsycho, D-Plan and RFTC shirts. Amicoolornot?

― Alacran, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"shaggy has tremendously sexy whores in his videos"

― mark s, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always maintained that if people want me to advertise their band on the front of a t-shirt I'm wearing, THEY CAN PAY ME. Actually, the same goes for any corporate logo.

Last t-shirts I wore were kids' ones from Marks and Spencer. Plain white.

― suzy, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since the days when I had a Bauhaus shirt for each day of the week (yes, literally) I have calmed down slightly. I think I only own t- shirts for 4 bands now. Maybe 3? Spacemen3, BJM, Dandy Warhols (those were given to me, so they don't count) and ... Sloan, actually. Yeah.

I have grown very wary of wearing band t-shirts, because it seems to me an attempt to replace your personality with that of a band's cult. So I'm very careful about which cults I will participate in.

I will steal Gareth's Mercury Rev shirt next time he's not looking, tho. I will!

― kate, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have owned two band T-shirts - a JoyDiv one I had in 1980, and A Fractured (mates' band)one which I have now. I'm timelessly cool in carefree way with or without them anyways ;)

I've had some great home-made ones, especially in 76/77.

― Dr. C, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you really want to look cool - get an old Michael Jackson t- shirt. or Toto. or Chilliwack. You can write "Saccharine Trust" on it in magic marker. It'll look like you've had the shirt for years - and no one will understand what the hell your point is. That would be so totally cool.

― Dave225, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have grown very wary of wearing band t-shirts, because it seems to me an attempt to replace your personality with that of a band's cult. So I'm very careful about which cults I will participate in.

To me, wearing a band's t-shirt only means you like them and you'd like people to know about that, or - better - about them. If you're afraid that people will replace your personality in their minds with that of the band's cult, then you might be worrying too much about what others think of you, or there's not much of a personality to speak of in the first place. So you might as well relax and see if that old Mudhoney shirt still fits....

― Alacran, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a VU and a Jane's Addiction should do you.

― geoff, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i preferred the more generic "your favourite band are shit" t-shirt (popular sometime around 92?). Try these instead for that cool geek feel.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shirt it's just as well I don't have: "I'm so fucking alternative."

Current favorite musical shirt: Blue RocaWear T.

I want some wu-wear, because it's almost retro now.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am currently in an attempt to replace my unsatisfactory personality with the cult of the band The Clientele.

― Tim, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not much for t-shirts, I don't like being a walking billboard. Plain black shirt is usually fine for me. But the ILM-shirt is actually a pretty amusing idea. The Pitchfork T didn't sell quite as well as planned, but I have to admit I look like quite the hipster in it.

ironic regards,

― Chris, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My awesome skin-tight Joan Jett t-shirt was stolen from the laundry room of my apartment building. Damn!! I do have a threadbare, tight Rolling Stones shirt from 1981 that rocks. And my favorite rock shirt is also skin-tight (natch) and it just says (in big letters) MAX (then underneath in smaller letters) rock and roll. It's so threadbare I only wear it once in a while.

― Sean, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dont think anyone else would be impressed, but if you walked by me wearing a danzig shirt with the skull & horns (from the cover of DANZIG I), i'd be very impressed.

― daniel, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Pitchfork T didn't sell quite as well as planned, but I have to admit I look like quite the hipster in it.

Or so he thinks.

― Sean, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ahh, Daria, I wish I still had the Melt-Banana shirt I picked up at a show and later learned was too small for me: it was cool and I'd have sent it to you. But I gave it to my girlfriend instead.

Interesting fact about how stupid I am: I used to buy band t-shirts all the time but don't have any now, because they were always too small and I always wound up giving them to my girlfriend, who would then have other guys drooling and thinking "Holy crap, that girl must be so cool and know about tons of music, wearing that Melt- Banana t-shirt to work." Finally I thought I'd learned my lesson and bought a very cool-looking band shirt that fortunately had the band's name in katakana, which was a plus since I wasn't hugely into the band but just thought it was a good-looking shirt, and I bought it a size larger than I thought would fit, for obvious reasons. It was too large. I tried to give it to Scott P. from here, but he forgot to take it with him when he left.

Actually good music shirts I've liked lately: the Yo La Tengo one with the baseball-head, which looks old from the start, and a Mos Def shirt I saw a guy wearing that just said Mos Def really big on the front, but in those cheap plasticky stuck-on letters that chip off and make it look like you've been into Mos Def since before he was born.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*Spooky* Hehehe, I was precisely logging on to Start a pointless ILE Thread (on a Saturday afternoon) about how I Have Seen a Guy Last Night at Saphir Who Was Wearing a Really Cool And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead t-shirt. Thanks to the Telepathic Nude Spock, I'll just reply this instead. Spooky!
I am listening to Avant Hard and very stoned. I am soon leaving to eat chinese in Chinatown with a few mates. I dont know how I'll make it without seeming completely out of my head. Yeah. Rocks off!

― Simon, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Montreal is Cool would make a terrific t-shirt. I'd like one saying We're Desperate on the front and Yet Justified on the back.

― Simon, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cheap Trick. Either that or "Who the Fuck is Stephen Malkmus?"

― JM, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can someone explain why band t-shirts only ever come in XL or similar sizes. Do people assume that every person going to buy one of these things is obese? You look like you're wearing a bloody smock. I fit adult small and can still fit child large, for christ's sake. I want small t-shirts! (Actually, I do have one, but it's hideously uncomfortable. and naff. ('You drive fast...' DW's enough said I think.)

― Bill, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get blank shirts that fit the way YOU like them to fit; in the color you like to see on YOU.

Get some water-proof PAINT.

MAYBE some stencils.

For sure, some brushes; tho' you can use your fingers.

CAN YOU GUESS THE REST ?

[In life, you need to fill in your own purpose(s), IMHO.]

Have fun !

da Wiz

― Wizard Of Szasz, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can buy these make-your-own-design shirts. They transfer b&w photocopies onto a t-shirt. I've got about ten of them - someone unloaded a huge batch of them at a thrift store I went to. But I've looked online, and you can buy them here and there. Then you could make your own statement / band t-shirt.

― Kerry, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

once i was wearing my hope against hope/ band of susans T, and my granma looked at it and said: "That's a nice picture, but the girls all look so sad"

so there's your answer

― mark s, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did Ministry make t-shirts for "With Sympathy"?
If they did & only sold them way back then, I would pay a LOT of money for one of those. Er, I don't really think there's much interesting about wearing a band t-shirt as a statement so simple as "I like _____". I got a Skinny Puppy t-shirt because I suddenly thought it was interesting since hair metal t-shirts were all the rage last fall.

― daria gray, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

Where can I get a tshirt for Sex Pistols/Sid Vicious?

― A-Ron Mccormick, Friday, 18 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Save yr money, he's dead.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Friday, 18 November 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

http://krudmart.com/images/parodyblack02.jpg

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Friday, 18 November 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Ian and Bill OTM. The only time I like band shirts at all is when they fit well (which is impossible to get going) AND are just kind of cool looking shirts. I've seen like three of these ever. Two of them were Erase Errata shirts. I'll admit that I've bought some bad shirts (or at least ones I'll never wear) in a vague effort to support the band. I bought one from Palomar with my credit card, and I think they lost my billing information 'cause I never got charged for it. So that balances.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 18 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

http://catandgirl.com/xmas/tbsc_icon.gif

Hasn't it been officially decided that to look "timelessly cool" you should not wear a band t-shirt? Try solid button-down shirts. Go for the Dylan '66 look. Tight black trousers. European cut suit coats.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 18 November 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

i like band tshirts. they're good conversation starters when i'm working in the library or travelling on public transport. my favourite is a bloodshot records one (not strictly a band tshirt but still) but i also like my go! team one and i regret ruining my holly golightly one by accidentally washing it with my red pants making it a dodge shade of pink.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 18 November 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

can somebody post a picture of the 2001 edition pitchfork t-shirt?!!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Hasn't it been officially decided that to look "timelessly cool" you should not wear a band t-shirt?

OTM. A band t-shirt immediately establishes an era-specific aesthetic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

http://t-shirts.org/newstuff/sparklemotionblack.jpg

― moley, Friday, 18 November 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

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