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dontfeartheringo wrote:Growing up in Columbus, GA in those dark, dark days before there was a "Hot Topic," the only punk rock band shirts WERE homemade shirts.

In fact, I think that all actual punk rock shirts are homemade punk rock shirts.

I may have mentioned this before, but I once played a show opening for Fugazi with "this is not a Fugazi t-shirt" written on my bare chest.

I felt pretty clever about that.

Ceci n'est pas un pipe, bitches.

I made a shirt to wear to a Fugazi show that said "This Is Not A Fugazi Fan" and Ian kept giving me funny looks the whole night.

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:Growing up in Columbus, GA in those dark, dark days before there was a "Hot Topic," the only punk rock band shirts WERE homemade shirts.

In fact, I think that all actual punk rock shirts are homemade punk rock shirts.

I may have mentioned this before, but I once played a show opening for Fugazi with "this is not a Fugazi t-shirt" written on my bare chest.

I felt pretty clever about that.

Ceci n'est pas un pipe, bitches.

I made a shirt to wear to a Fugazi show that said "This Is Not A Fugazi Fan" and Ian kept giving me funny looks the whole night.

That was probably his come hither look. Ian's pretty notorious for his backstage shenanigans with groupies.

tinycorkscrew wrote:

Lonesome Bulldog wrote:

dontfeartheringo wrote:Growing up in Columbus, GA in those dark, dark days before there was a "Hot Topic," the only punk rock band shirts WERE homemade shirts.

In fact, I think that all actual punk rock shirts are homemade punk rock shirts.

I may have mentioned this before, but I once played a show opening for Fugazi with "this is not a Fugazi t-shirt" written on my bare chest.

I felt pretty clever about that.

Ceci n'est pas un pipe, bitches.

I made a shirt to wear to a Fugazi show that said "This Is Not A Fugazi Fan" and Ian kept giving me funny looks the whole night.

That was probably his come blender look. Ian's pretty notorious for his backstage shenanigans with smoothies.

FYP.

Not crap.

In high school I wore a "FVGAZI" one proudly.

Not exactly my style any more, though. (I mean putting a sharpie to cotton. Think I'd probably take the time to get a screen made if I really wanted to have something on a shirt now. Might as well.)

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I had my sisters boyfriend (now my brother in law) make me a lovely Prong - Primitive Origins tshirt complete with the Prong symbol on the sleeve. He worked in a sign shop that could print tshirts. It was great but cost me my weekends pay at the Co-op to have it done. I wore it with pride under my school shirt.

I once made a Rapeman tee shirt which I wore to a Shellac concert back in '98 (at SOBs in NYC...who else was there?). On the front in big black (pun!) letters it said "monobrow" and on the back "singular eyebrow as fashion statement," along with tastefully-sized, blue Rapeman "R" logos on the sleeves. I used the Hanes T-Shirt Maker kit which I had seen advertised on some late night infomercial. I was (am) such a dork.

After the show I showed my shirt to Albini. He seemed amused and told me he had written that song about a dream he had featuring Todd Trainer singing in French (???). Then he turned to Todd, who was breaking down his drums, and said "Look, Todd, a homemade Rapeman shirt." Todd just seemed to motionlessly shrug, if that is even possible (it is, I tell ya).

That Hanes tee shirt kit was crap though. After the first wash, the iron-on stencil would begin to crack and eventually disintegrate. Plus you pretty much had to use white tee shirts. Only other shirt I remember making with it was a scan of a box of Quisp cereal. Dunno why, I just liked that guy on the box.

I used to make up fake bands, I'd record some songs on 4 track and make up a whole history for them and whatnot....well, I still do that part but I used to make T shirts for these fake bands and wear them and try to get snooty indie rockers to pretend they'd heard of them. Worked all the time.

Me at Reckless in like, 1994:
I am looking for the new Lacto-Mam album, you guys must have it but I do not see it out here
Clerk types in his computer furiously Uh, yeah....I think we had one but someone bought it
Have you heard it?
Oh yeah, it was pretty good.
Really, is it different from their earlier stuff?
Uh, yeah it was kinda...well, I only listened to it once real quick so I didn't really get a chance to...I just kinda want from track to track real quick but it sounded good.
That's strange because I heard it was all one 60 minute long track.
No, it had more songs. I think it had 12 songs.
That's very strange indeed. I am positive it is one 60 minute long track, just read about it before coming in here. What was on the cover?
Uh, it was kind of blue with like, a picture on it of something. I didn't really get a good look at it.
I heard it has a green cover, like bright green.
Well maybe ours was a promo copy or something.
They never release promo copies.
Well, I don't know then. Is there anything else you are looking for?
Yes, the new Upskirt Mountain 7 inch. I'll take one of those. Do you have that in stock? Have you heard it?

I did that to this one music snob. Every other week he'd be touting some uninteresting band because they fit his fashion sense. So we came up with a band called Penguis, even made a shirt. He never found their 7-inch but dude they were like totally "spirit of '77" punk rawk.