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Like several other people here, I used to wear these *a lot*, but then I moved to less provincial climes and discovered the joy of tops that said completely random things on them instead.
Oasis long-sleeved t-shirt. From when the band were actually good, but God help me, this item of clothing wasn't. Not too bad when worn with jacket (black, with small simple logo in centre of chest), but it had long sleeves with the band name written in quite large type and, worst of all, an iron-on picture of the band on the back. Worn often during my dubious indie-quasi-Goth phase of wearing mostly black clothes but in such a way as to make Goths hate me too. Eek.
Garbage - pretty generic pink'n'white logo on black tee. Used to suit the syle I was aiming for pretty well (see above), and I'm much less aghast when I picture it than a lot of its contempory items.
Manic Street Preachers tee which said 'Violence For Equality' on the front and 'WHEN FREEDOM EXISTS THERE WILL BE NO STATE' on the back. Funny that I agree with the politics a lot more now than when I used to wear it... If only they hadn't gone crap, I'd still remember this fondly because it was an eyeliner-free way of indicating circa Everything Must Go which camp of MSP fans I was in (or wanted to be in).
U2 - PopStar tee. Loved this, and would still wear it today if it hadn't grown worn and I hadn't grown a little too corpulent around the waist in particular... Great because it wasn't obviously a U2 t-shirt at all, and also came in a particularly nice cut rather than the shapeless baggy mess that usually suffices for a band t-shirt.
The only one I'm at all ashamed of: Kurt Cobain t-shirt with birth and death dates beneath a huuuge black and white photo of Kurt looking soulful and tortured. What was I thinking?
The one I never wore: Radiohead 'sport failure' skinny tee - this would have been great, it was sort of blue and red and gold and white and really very trendy. And far too small for me even at the age I bought it, which must have been about 17. I think it was at this point I first started hating skinny boys, for I must have realised that there was a physique that had been mocked at school but would be desired from now on, and that I already had lost it. Bah.
Most recent - long-sleeved black Violent Femmes top with bright dayglo pink lettering and the number '15' on the back for some reason. I only know 'Blister In The Sun', but it was dirt cheap.
I'm sure I've forgotten one. Think is, I'd still buy and wear 'em if I ever got round to tracking down t-shirts of the bands I really, really like, but the only time I have, they only had them for girls and skinny boys. Damn those skinny boys, and damn Le Tigre and Electrelane for their skinny boy privileging! |
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