wearing band shirts - good or bad? [Archive]

killingstars

26th July 2002, 20:58

band shirts are cool as long as it's from an independent label. indepedent bands about the music, or at least the ones i listen to. it's support for good music. but if you're wearing a major label band, you're probably just helping pay for their limo or whatever hip drug addiction is out.

bluerev002

27th July 2002, 01:04

i used to wear lots of band shirts but since they went "in " i reallly stopped. it was just too weird wearing the same shirt as the guy next to me, who says he bought it at hot topics :smile: but i still wear some of them, (che shirts went in too)

Infamy

27th July 2002, 09:38

you wear them to support the bands you like. you are willing to let everyone who can see your shirt know that you like that band. and they may then go out and listen to them, thus making a new fan. yes you are advertising, but you are willingly and knowingly doing it.

Zippy

27th July 2002, 22:16

Its only a t-shirt.

Zippy.

bluerev002

27th July 2002, 23:06

yah but it simbalizes something. it shows that you like a band or any thing else. i mean your not gonna be wearing a shirt that says im gay now are you?!

Titus

28th July 2002, 04:12

i wear t-shirts related to a band which are against corporate control, reside on the political left and sell t-shirts through their own label which are made laboriously without the use of mass production.

i don't think there's anything wrong with that

man in the red suit

28th July 2002, 08:00

Quote: from Zippy on 10:16 pm on July 27, 2002
Its only a t-shirt.

seriously. Who the fuck cares? It is just a shirt. I have a whole wardrobe of Nirvana and pearl Jam shirts. I don't give a rat's ass what I am promoting. I care only that I like the bands of the shirts i wear.

lohman2k

28th July 2002, 12:38

Yeah, i wear band-shirts, too, sometimes. But i don´t have many....sometimes an offspring-shirt, or a Bob Marley....
and Che.Shirts, but this is no band, but if you waer che or band shirts people can see your oppinion when they look at you.... that´s why i like these shirts

Zippy

29th July 2002, 11:11

Quote: from bluerev002 on 11:06 pm on July 27, 2002
yah but it simbalizes something.

It symbolises you like a band. My word, what is the world coming to?

>i mean your not gonna be wearing a shirt that says im gay now are you?!

Why not? Would that be a bad thing?

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On a side note, i despise with a passion t-shirts that glamourise violence. You can buy a t-shirt with the Calvin Klein logo over here, but instead it says "Cop Killer" (i'm sure you're understanding me) and they always make me feel ill. If anyone can ever think killing a police officer is a good thing then i am truly disgusted. I have yet to see anybody wearing one, but if i ever do the dude is getting a slap.

Zippy.

mentalbunny

29th July 2002, 20:17

[quote]Quote: from Zippy on 10:16 pm on July 27, 2002
Its only a t-shirt.

i gotta be quick, yeah zippy's right but i get so pissed off with the millions of slipknot t-shirts and hoodies and akll the rest, iut's so refreshing when you see something different and original. I never wear band t-shirts, simply cos I never see one I want to wear, although I have been known to borrow them!

Zippy

29th July 2002, 21:34

Quote: from mentalbunny on 8:17 pm on July 29, 2002
but i get so pissed off with the millions of slipknot t-shirts and hoodies and akll the rest, iut's so refreshing when you see something different and original.
Thats more to do with culture than with fashion.

Zippy.

bluerev002

30th July 2002, 03:59

well it was just an example. a lot of people see it as bad. heck im in drama and there are like three gay dudes there and we get along great. oh and no im not saying anything bad against drama either, come on im in it!

canikickit

30th July 2002, 04:27

I agree with man in the red suit on this....its not really that huge a deal for jaysis sake......

Quote: from Zippy on 10:16 pm on July 27, 2002
Its only a t-shirt.

cK "cop killer"

Don't you feel the same way about this? What about films like Pulp Fiction? That's violent too...what about Braveheart? or Menace II Society or La Haine?

ah.......forget it...

Zippy

30th July 2002, 19:47

Quote: from canikickit on 4:27 am on July 30, 2002
Don't you feel the same way about this?
I beleive there is a difference between t-shirts that say "i like this band" and a t-shirt that says "i kill police officers".

>What about films like Pulp Fiction? That's violent too...what about Braveheart? or Menace II Society or La Haine?

Media is a very complex thing, and if there was a film about how much fun it is to kill police officers then i would despise it with the same energy. Pulp Fiction does glamourise violence, but it has an 18 certificate and i beleive people are clever enough to know that shooting people isn't all fun and games. Braveheart is just shite, so i refuse to comment about that, and Menace To Society is a social critique, which also has its place.
There is a difference between a film where a man gets shot and a t-shirt that announces "its good to kill cops". One has its place in society and the other is crude and ugly. You work out which is which.

Zippy.

guerrillaradio

31st July 2002, 12:11

Quote: from mentalbunny on 8:17 pm on July 29, 2002
iut's so refreshing when you see something different and original.

Yeah. Like me, I wear a shirt and tie, kinda like The Hives or The Icarus Line. Either that or go all grungy and wear faded longsleeves.

Seriously, until a few months back I was terrible with band t-shirts. They were all black, faded and boring. Amen, Tool, Slipknot, RATM, At the Drive-in, Korn, I have a whole lotta almost identical t-shirts at the back of my wardrobe.

mentalbunny

31st July 2002, 23:16

A more individual style looks tonnes better than band t-shirts. I am however planning on getting a balck hoody (probably with a band on it) but only cos it's useful for being lazy in.

Zippy

1st August 2002, 01:20

Quote: from mentalbunny on 11:16 pm on July 31, 2002
I am however planning on getting a balck hoody (probably with a band on it) but only cos it's useful for being lazy in.
Please reconsider, they have some lovely jumpers in TopShop. :)

Zippy.

Michael De Panama

2nd August 2002, 18:55

It's not a corporation you're supporting. It's art. The Fantomas shirt I am wearing right now is not representative of capitalist America, it's a representation of a band.

mentalbunny

2nd August 2002, 23:57

Quote: from Zippy on 1:20 am on Aug. 1, 2002

Quote: from mentalbunny on 11:16 pm on July 31, 2002
I am however planning on getting a balck hoody (probably with a band on it) but only cos it's useful for being lazy in.
Please reconsider, they have some lovely jumpers in TopShop. :)

Zippy.

very funny Zippy! but i want to scare people, make them think i'm something i'm not! manipulationis such fun! besides it'll piss off my rents. i was thinking aobut cradle of filth, not cos i like them, they're so repeative! but the "jesus is a ****" would be good, or some naked girl covered in blood! mmMMMmm

anyway! so basically i don't like slipknot or limp bizkit but anything original is cool, not that it really makes any difference! (sorry apathy and nihilism coming thorugh!)

Lonny Walker

8th August 2002, 04:16

D Day, same with me, i walk around with ratm n marley shirts

prozak

12th August 2002, 18:34

To metalheads, wearing band tshirts signifies what you can/cannot understand.

Some guy wearing a Burzum tshirt always gets more respect than someone with a Pantera shirt.

deadpool 52

14th August 2002, 03:15

Quote: from Zippy on 3:16 am on July 28, 2002
Its only a t-shirt.

Zippy.

It is only an armband.

Zippy

14th August 2002, 17:09

Quote: from deadpool 52 on 3:15 am on Aug. 14, 2002
It is only an armband.
I don't think the Army Band sells t-shirts, but its a nice idea.

Zippy.

Lefty

15th August 2002, 21:08

sadly, i own many "mainstream" shirts. Quiksilver, Billabong, etc. I also have a che shirt and a RATM shirt or two, but for the most part i look like a sheep. For the formal last year i went with my hair spiked and an untucked white dress shirt with a black tie a la Zach. Band shirts are good. They symbolize what your taste in music is, and i suppose that could be good or bad.

samaniego

22nd August 2002, 23:13

I agree with D day

Smoking Frog II

26th October 2002, 21:23

If they're fake und cheap, cool. if not, cool.

Che is not a fashion. che is a symbol of revolution/

El Brujo

27th October 2002, 22:27

Its just a goddamn shirt. It dosen't mean anything. Its not necesarrily a trend thing either. I wear the same Motorhead shirt I must have seen a million people wear, I dont give a fuck.

Punx for Peace

7th November 2002, 23:04

EXPRESS YOURSELF!

You can wear a Dead Kennedys t-shirt (if you want).
You can wear a Stop the WTO t-shirt (if you want).
You can wear a Queer As Fuck t-shirt (if you want).

EXPRESS YOURSELF!

hXcPetey

11th November 2002, 17:46

if its for diy bands

Guardia Bolivariano

11th November 2002, 18:40

If you like what you wear then what's the problem?

Floyd.

13th November 2002, 00:56

What matters is wether or not you personally see what you are doing as wrong/detramental to others or yourself in any way. Pictures and words are forms of expression, brand names make you the corporate yuppie not the music that pleases you. Wear what you like but only if your poud, that is what I say.

ComradeDavo

16th November 2002, 19:12

Quote: from Comrade La Vista on 12:56 am on Nov. 13, 2002
What matters is wether or not you personally see what you are doing as wrong/detramental to others or yourself in any way. Pictures and words are forms of expression, brand names make you the corporate yuppie not the music that pleases you. Wear what you like but only if your poud, that is what I say.
Could't agree more!