Band T Shirt poseurs

jonnyburgo

Once upon a time I was in Eccles and saw a young student type in a Mothers of Invention Freak Out T Shirt, I got excited thinking wow a fellow freak so I attempted to engage the kid in conversation about Zappa, he didn't have a clue what or who I was talking about, bloody poseurs eh?

Philly_Q

As mentioned in another recent thread, aged approx 17 I had a Grateful Dead T-shirt just because I liked the picture... 

To be honest, I think it's pretty cool that anybody has a Mothers of Invention T-shirt.  But that's hypocritical of me because I'm quite contemptuous of Kardashian/Jenner types going around in Slayer or Ramones shirts.  I can't really explain myself.

HAL9000

Philly_Q said:

 I'm quite contemptuous of Kardashian/Jenner types going around in Slayer or Ramones shirts

The Ramones probably sold more tee shirts than they ever sold tickets or albums.

Sporky

If he didn't know they were a band he can't be a poser, surely? He must just have liked the shirt. 

Stratavarious

Remind me to reread my Che Guevara

fretmeister

He just liked the shirt. So what?

I bet the OP wears Harley Davidson shirts but can’t name any of his songs.

fretmeister

Philly_Q said:

As mentioned in another recent thread, aged approx 17 I had a Grateful Dead T-shirt just because I liked the picture... 

To be honest, I think it's pretty cool that anybody has a Mothers of Invention T-shirt.  But that's hypocritical of me because I'm quite contemptuous of Kardashian/Jenner types going around in Slayer or Ramones shirts.  I can't really explain myself.

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jonnyburgo

And I'm always saying how great Harley Benton are when I've never had one of their pies.

mrkb

I’ve got a Fat Face T-shirt and I don’t like fat faces, am I a hypocrite as well?

Sporky

I have herringbone trousers, and I'm not any sort of fish! 

Bellycaster

jonnyburgo said:

And I'm always saying how great Harley Benton are when I've never had one of their pies.

Nah, they make Motorbikes, silly.

sev112

I was on holiday in Spain, quite a quiet part and this chap came up and started speaking to me in a foreign language which is presumed was Spanish or a dialect of it.

Turned out that he was a geordie and it was my “fashionable” Grandad-shirt-collared Newcastle United football shirt I had on that had attracted him to me, even though I’m from down south.  

bertie

no comment

TeleMaster

I think it’s fine to speak to someone who has a band t shirt that you like. You’re just trying to connect with someone over something you (may) both love. 

The issue becomes when people gatekeep that band, like someone once asked me if I could name 3 songs from the band of the t shirt I was wearing. I looked at him and rattled off the entire listing of the album and told him to get lost. 

It is a bit annoying that awesome bands get trivialised and demeaned into a £5 t shirt that people wear and you know they wouldn’t even like the band if they heard them, but ultimately they’re just wearing a t shirt and if they don’t know them I’d say oh no worries just don’t see many fans about, and leave it at that. 

Last year I cycled past someone with a Dead Kennedys t shirt and I shouted ‘HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA YEAAAA’ at him and he looked absolutely delighted. I think I made his day. And someone once said ‘cool band’ at my Sonic Youth t shirt and that made my day, so I do think that someone acknowledging your t shirt is a really cool thing to do in general. 

stickyfiddle

I ordered a Semisonic t-shirt last week. I do know their songs but I would've considered buying it even if I didn't because it's a great shirt.

EricTheWeary

I was at Tesco petrol station in Skipton and a man in a white van asked me if I had a Fender. My brain went WTF then realised I had a Fender t shirt on. He explained that he's a Gibson guy and runs a jam night in Skipton. So I was that poseur although I do own a Fender and hello to someone on here if you run that jam night; my apologies that I was a bit confused at the time! 

TeleMaster

stickyfiddle said:

I ordered a Semisonic t-shirt last week. I do know their songs but I would've considered buying it even if I didn't because it's a great shirt.

Don’t listen to their songs. You might send it back.  

stickyfiddle

TeleMaster said:

stickyfiddle said:

I ordered a Semisonic t-shirt last week. I do know their songs but I would've considered buying it even if I didn't because it's a great shirt.

Don’t listen to their songs. You might send it back.  

Haha

I knew someone would say something. Feeling Strangely Fine is a 90s college rock classic and I won't have a word said against it :P 

ArchtopDave

I have a couple of T shirts with some of Charles Darwin’s writings on them, and one with a dinosaur. I’m sad that I haven’t seen, or had either speak to me. 

Philly_Q

TeleMaster said:

Last year I cycled past someone with a Dead Kennedys t shirt and I shouted ‘HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA YEAAAA’ at him and he looked absolutely delighted. I think I made his day. And someone once said ‘cool band’ at my Sonic Youth t shirt and that made my day, so I do think that someone acknowledging your t shirt is a really cool thing to do in general. 

Last year a homeless guy said my UFO-era Michael Schenker T-shirt was cool and I was oddly pleased.  Didn't give him any money though...

Kittyfrisk

sev112 said:

I was on holiday in Spain, quite a quiet part and this chap came up and started speaking to me in a foreign language which is presumed was Spanish or a dialect of it.

Turned out that he was a geordie and it was my “fashionable” Grandad-shirt-collared Newcastle United football shirt I had on that had attracted him to me, even though I’m from down south.  

Cultural appropriation too? Shameless