how much should a person know about a band before wearing their shirt?

badbrains · October 2014

23scidoo said:
I'm working in a restaurant and theres a lot of young girls coming wear those shirts with Ramones or Stones logo, and my common joke is this..''if you can name 10 songs, the dinner its free''..i have never loose..

Hahahahaha

2-feign-reluctance · October 2014

boyo79 said:
Nothing. If someone likes the design of a t-shirt then buy it. Doesn't matter whether it's a band shirt, sports shirt or any branded shirt.

tempo_n_groove · October 2014

deadendp said:
About 6 months ago, the one girl at work was wearing a Misfits shirt. Loving GD Misfits, I commented on it. She shook her head and kind of gave me an odd look. I was talking to my other coworker who loves The Misfits. (She just saw them at the Agora this past weekend.) Turns out that she had talked to her about it earlier that day. "Mary had no idea who The Misfits are! She just bought it because she liked the shirt!" I told her that we needed to educate her.

I only purchase and wear shirts of bands that I've seen. I did have a Led Zeppelin shirt that I wore to death, but 1. I can name their albums. 2. I own their albums. 3. At least I saw Robert Plant and Jimmy Page a few times. Sadly, I did not see them as a band. I did have a Nirvana shirt that I wore to death. Saw them at a Halloween show the University of Akron in 1993.

Because of mass marketing stores (not advertising their names here) I think that more band shirts have become available to a purchasing audience than normally wouldn't have been. I suppose that it is up to us to help educate those who don't know. Mary may receive A Walk Among Us and Static Age from me for Christmas. Let's pull together to teach them that there was music before they were born and that it was and still is GOOD music!

The Misfits Crimson ghost logo is quite fashionable. It has even invaded hiphop in one form or another.

I too asked a gal wearing a Misfits hat whether she liked the Michael Graves or Glen Danzig era Misfits or are you really new and like Dez? She looked at me like I had 10 heads.

It's fashion now. Mainstream. What's old is new. What's new is cool...

I guess it's like asking a dude/dudette wearing a Bilabong shirt if they surf?

Sometimes it's just fashion.

:-)

lolobugg · October 2014

a few years ago I was riding to a business meeting with a co-worker. He was about 10 years younger than me, or maybe more.
Nirvana came on the radio...he asked me "which band is this?"
I replied "Nirvana, you know- Kurt Cobain". He gave me a puzzled look. I realized that he had never heard of Kurt Cobain.

Next question for him was "Have you ever heard of Courtney Love?"
He replied "Yeah, I know who Courtney Love is"

I almost pulled over and threw him out on the highway.

hedonist · October 2014

I enjoy wearing my husband's football jerseys. Jerry Rice and a couple others are the only ones I know.

The horror!

Nami · October 2014

lolobugg said:
a few years ago I was riding to a business meeting with a co-worker. He was about 10 years younger than me, or maybe more.
Nirvana came on the radio...he asked me "which band is this?"
I replied "Nirvana, you know- Kurt Cobain". He gave me a puzzled look. I realized that he had never heard of Kurt Cobain.

Next question for him was "Have you ever heard of Courtney Love?"
He replied "Yeah, I know who Courtney Love is"

I almost pulled over and threw him out on the highway.

lol

Last-12-Exit · October 2014

I've been warned so I'll keep it nice: zero. The answer to the question is friggin zero. People can wear whatever the hell they want with zero knowledge of the contents on the shirt.

jamburger · October 2014

23scidoo said:
I'm working in a restaurant and theres a lot of young girls coming wear those shirts with Ramones or Stones logo, and my common joke is this..''if you can name 10 songs, the dinner its free''..i have never loose..

Yet, while you can name 10 songs, there is no prize for you.

hedonist · October 2014

jamburger said:

23scidoo said:
I'm working in a restaurant and theres a lot of young girls coming wear those shirts with Ramones or Stones logo, and my common joke is this..''if you can name 10 songs, the dinner its free''..i have never loose..
Yet, while you can name 10 songs, there is no prize for you.

Made me think of

jamburger · October 2014

^^ That's the guy that would quiz you for a free dinner. He knows his soup better than you do.

hedonist · October 2014

jamburger said:
^^ That's the guy that would quiz you for a free dinner. He knows his soup better than you do.

Empty Glass · October 2014

are we only concerned about t-shirts because I don't know much about fruit of the loom

Agg · October 2014

I wear Nirvana shirts all the time and I know pretty much every single song of theirs. But I've seen other people my age (24) wearing them and I'll try to start a conversation about it and they have no idea what I'm talking about half the time. I almost hate wearing them sometimes because people probably just assume a young female wearing a Nirvana shirt is a hipster and not an actual fan.

PP193448 · October 2014

I used to own a pair of K2 skis, but I've never summited or even climbed K2. I'm not a mountain climber... Guess I shouldn't wear anything North Face or Patagonia. Never been there. Plus I don't even know who the fuck Eddie Bauer is?? Is Hanes a first name or family name. Who are the Hanes family? Why did they put that hole in the crotch where your pecker falls out too often?? Guess I might just have to join some nudist colony...

Why do people wear Harley Davidson shirts if they don't own one?? And how many bitches fall off cause there's lots of those shirts too? Should I avoid putting my kids in Steelers clothes cause they don't know the players on their favorite football team? Better keep them listening to PJ so they can at least wear those shirts, huh??

hedonist · October 2014

It's so strange but I suppose not so surprising - the level of concern not only about what t-shirt others are wearing and the required justifying hoops to jump through, but also what category others might lump you in based on whateverthefuck shirt you chose to don.

By the same logic, is it OK or not for people to clothe their baby in one of those PJ onesies?

Clarification needed, STAT!

(glad I read PP's post before I submitted; thanks for the

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lolobugg · October 2014

Agg said:
I wear Nirvana shirts all the time and I know pretty much every single song of theirs. But I've seen other people my age (24) wearing them and I'll try to start a conversation about it and they have no idea what I'm talking about half the time. I almost hate wearing them sometimes because people probably just assume a young female wearing a Nirvana shirt is a hipster and not an actual fan.

exact opposite of why I rock my CREED t-shirt....
I don't know any of their songs....
I just wear it for the hip factor.

badbrains · October 2014

What the fuck kind of question is this? Lol who cares, wear whatever u want. Shit, if 81 is allowed to wear those man skeletoez whatever the fuck they're called slippers, u can wear whatever u want.

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lolobugg · October 2014

badbrains said:
What the fuck kind of question is this? Lol who cares, wear whatever u want. Shit, if 81 is allowed to wear those man skeletoez whatever the fuck they're called slippers, u can wear whatever u want. )

We need pj skeletoez

Last-12-Exit · October 2014

If I see one more person wear a Riot Act shirt and know what track 7 is on the CD I am going to explode!

PP193448 · October 2014

It's ironic for someone to wear a Tool shirt and not know who the group is or anything about the music. Or maybe they are just making fun of themselves...or whomever reads it...

how much should a person know about a band before wearing their shirt?

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