Can you wear a band t-shirt without knowing the band?

Sambostar

Or someone is trying to cling on and ride the back of someone else's notoriety.  I might wear a T shirt with an artist, if it had a good quote on it though, rather than a band name.  It's like CBGB T shirts.  You ever been to LA?  Fuck that is as sad as me wearing an Indy 500 T shirt or a Che Guevara T shirt.

Sambostar

I'd wear a Metallica T Shirt if it had the slogan

'Which of these men will be bald at 50' on it, or 'Everyone hates you because you're a ginger cock'

It would bring it down to earth.

FelineGuitars

imalone

fretmeister said:

I remember telling a 20-ish year old woman on the Tube that I had 'that' T-shirt from 25 years ago (Motorhead) and I asked her if she had ever seen them live.

She told me she didn't realise it was a band.

I was going to say you can't wear a band t-shirt without knowing the band, because you would at least know their name, but I think this proves it is actually possible.

Myself, I wouldn't wear a band t-shirt of a band I didn't like, why would you? Actually, don't think I have any band t-shirts, though if I ever find a colour swansong one I'll get it. I do have a Vox t-shirt which is made of something similar to crêpe paper (it's surprisingly resilient).

Sambostar

I'd wear a 'Sting' T shirt, or maybe a Madonna 'Material Girl' or a Bono one, but it would have to have 'Is a complete cock... or 'Sad twat' or 'Steals all our footpaths, lynch her' underneath in bold letters.  My favourite T shirt is a 'Dr Pepper' T shirt I got from Walmart and I love Dr Pepper, I drink it almost every day.

octatonic

FelineGuitars

I'll happily wear a band t shirt if I really like the band and really like the design of the shirt, although I did go off wearing band shirts for a long while.

The only time I broke the wearing the shirt when I wasn't that keen on the band rule was a doors T shirt becaue Jim Morrison looked cool as hell on it

Sambostar

I'd like to get a T shirt with an image of my grinning face on it and the slogan 'Fuck off'

Reverend

BloodEagle;580319" said:

Reverend said:

gusman2x;579916" said:Nah, I wouldn't, but it doesn't bother me to be honest. What really does boil my piss however, is people wearing band t shirts to see gigs not by that band. Nonsense elitist shit.As an aside, does anyone wear their own band t shirt? And in what context, just live, for social?

The rule is you don't wear the shirts of the band you are seeing.



Unless you have a very rare shirt.





IBTINL era Bolt Thrower etc

I have about 200 shirts so no excuse for wearing a bands shirt to their own gig

mike_l

richardhomer said:

 I'm simply not the right shape for T shirts....

Neither am I. It still don't fucking stop me........

Drew_TNBD

Download 2005 or 2006. Black Sabbath played. Ozzy was there. Had to sell ladies g-strings with his face right on the smoochie spot. Weird.

FelineGuitars

Sambostar said:

I'd like to get a T shirt with an image of my grinning face on it and the slogan 'Fuck off'

We're starting to see a trend emerging here Sambostar...

Reverend

mike_l;580524" said:

richardhomer said:

 I'm simply not the right shape for T shirts....







Neither am I. It still don't fucking stop me........

I hate shirts that have arms made for a different size. Xl shirt. Xxxxxl arms

Sambostar

samzadgan

Reverend;580572" said:

[quote="mike_l;580524"]richardhomer said:

 I'm simply not the right shape for T shirts....







Neither am I. It still don't fucking stop me........

I hate shirts that have arms made for a different size. Xl shirt. Xxxxxl arms[/quote]

^ This!...my guns feel betrayed!

Also it does bother me when i see you people walk out of shops like urban outfitters having just bought a relic'd iron maiden or metallica t-shirt.

But on the other hand, i would guess that when i wear band t-shirts, there are other metal heads who think im wearing something i dont know as well.

So i've learnt not to judge too harshly...

PolarityMan

Reverend said:

mike_l;580524" said:

richardhomer said:

 I'm simply not the right shape for T shirts....







Neither am I. It still don't fucking stop me........

I hate shirts that have arms made for a different size. Xl shirt. Xxxxxl arms

They're jumpers.

Philly_Q

I wear band T shirts all the time.  Or film T shirts.  

The majority of T shirts have some kind of logo, image or slogan on them.  Most people wander around wearing trendy brand names or something completely meaningless, like the name of a random American city in a stupid font.  Personally If I'm going to be seen wearing "advertising" I'd prefer it to be something I actually like. 

Moss

Saw a girl in a Joy Division one earlier and asked her if she was a fan - she looked at me oddly and asked 'what's Joy Division?'

Octahedron

Haha, well... I was going to say "no it's totally unacceptable", but then I decided that I don't want to be viewed as a hypocrite. After all, I own Star Wars PJs and a Star Wars tee without actually having ever seen the films. 

"Why?!" you ask

1) My name is Luke. I've been subject to many "I am your father..." jokes/comments. 

2) It's cool

3) People ask about it and I need the social interaction to come to me, instead of me having to seek it out :P 

Oh. And actally... both times I bought these things because I urgently needed some PJs as I was unexpectedly staying somewhere overnight, and the tee was because for some reason my anti-perspirant failed to deodorise me. And I was meeting a friend. And I didn't want to smell. So I got a Star Wars tee cos it was cheap and some deodorant. Problem solved.

Dalefty

I'm guilty of doing this all the time, I get given a shit load of bands t-shirts, half of them are from bands I have never even heard of, do I wear them, yeh, they're free t-shirts to me, it saves me the hasle of clothes shopping, nowadays I get a shit load of free bands hoodies, again half to most of them I haven't heard of and will probably never listen to, or if I did I would probably not be a fan of, but again, it's free clothing that I don't care about, it means I can save my Gucci clothing for when I'm out with the girlfriend, and not at work.

DaLefty