skatingbasser wrote:

yut wrote:I just think it is silly to have to think "What band shirt do I wear to see this band? Should I wear a Mudhoney t-shirt to a Melvins show?".

WHO DOES THIS?!?

Chill out. This is yut; the strawman is his stock-in-trade. He practically makes an art out of it. Breathtaking at times.

It's REO Speedwagon.
They need all help they can get.
It's 2006.
No one cares about REO Speedwagon.
They haven't even been CRAP/NOT CRAPped.

My wife loves the shit out of REO Speedwagon. She's seen them more times than you've had hot meals. But I think every REO Speedwagon shirt she owns was a shirt she made just before going to one of their shows. And she doesn't wear them except to their shows. And on laundry day.

But we've been distracted from the actual topic of this thread.

I am pretty much in total agreement with the new guy/gal caix: Not Crap.

Wearing your own band t-shirt is quite often a touring necessity when the clean clothes run out, so don't be so quick to judge!

totally crap. wearing your own band shirts at any time is extremely lame. my bands shirts don't really have the band name big or that visible on them, but i'd never wear one at home, or in public or on stage. and i helped design them, and hand screen printed them, but i'll never wear one. no matter how tough they look...

Verbs and Nouns wrote:totally crap. wearing your own band shirts at any time is extremely lame. my bands shirts don't really have the band name big or that visible on them, but i'd never wear one at home, or in public or on stage. and i helped design them, and hand screen printed them, but i'll never wear one. no matter how tough they look...

ahhh, i see. But you have no problem showing them off on a public forum for everyone to see.

I say that wearing your own t-shirt cause you like it is way less lame than posting pictures of them, pointing out that you designed them, expressing how "tough" you think they are and then saying that you won't wear them cause it's "extremely lame". ha! that's funny!

MTAR wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:totally crap. wearing your own band shirts at any time is extremely lame. my bands shirts don't really have the band name big or that visible on them, but i'd never wear one at home, or in public or on stage. and i helped design them, and hand screen printed them, but i'll never wear one. no matter how tough they look...

ahhh, i see. But you have no problem showing them off on a public forum for everyone to see.

I say that wearing your own t-shirt cause you like it is way less lame than posting pictures of them, pointing out that you designed them, expressing how "tough" you think they are and then saying that you won't wear them cause it's "extremely lame". ha! that's funny!

Zing-a-ding-ding

bingo !

yeah, that's different. they're also on the band myspace and on our website. but i'm not walking down the street wearing one. also, i posted them to show that the band name wasn't that blazing on them.

and i didn't design. i printed them.

anyway, in my opinion. i pretty much wear band shirts all the time, and i still wouldn't wear one of my own bands. tough or not.

I wear Rising Shotgun shirts from time to time (I have two) without any guilt or self-consciousness. For one thing, I think the shirt looks cool--with a design by the folk artist C.M. Laster. Also, I think Rising Shotgun was a pretty good band, and I'm proud to have played in it. So why not wear the shirt?