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I only keep a few band tees in rotation anymore, but the simpler design the better. Favorite is when there’s a small logo over the chest pocket area and bigger design on the back. I love when a record label has good merch like Polyvinyl or Run For Cover. For some reason it feels like the evolved band tee to me lol

 

I bought my wife a Joe Pera hat that has a lil tomato embroidered on it and she gets compliments on it constantly

 

Not helpful. I mostly wear Hawaiian shirts with tigers on them although I don't think that's the problem, Mum says I have a bad personality.

 

love a good hat, but i've got a big head so they can be hit or miss. had to gift my fiddlehead and sweet pill hats to my partner. wish more bands had socks... i got a white fiddlehead shirt and had to tie dye it because my deodorant (even though it's aluminum free) almost instantly dyed the pits. now i'm all in on dark colored shirts and hoodies. :) agree on the simple designs. can't do huge graphics on the front unless it's super awesome.

 

I would wear more band T's but for the last like, 5+ years, any I see I think look pretty shitty and they are so expensive at shows now

 

j. crew has goated plain tees. the factory store sometimes has good deals.

 

yeah, $30 - $40 for a shirt is a bummer. but i don't drink / do drugs anymore so i try and justify it that way.

 

I drink & drugs and pay hundreds for my shirts.

 

These in Long have actually been great and I need more.

 

I think you just solved the country's drug problems, set up a system where turning in drugs and alcohol gets you new t shirts. I like it.

 

mr. money bags

 

Most bands have terrible merch that’s why you gotta go with the bootlegs on Instagram.

 

90% of the shirts I wear are band tees

 

I mostly wear bootleg tees and random thrifted tees

 

80% of the reason I merch is to support the bands I like because they aint making shit from streaming or touring.

 

but then don't they feel like you are wearing a paper bag?

 

Isn't this a katy perry song

Sometimes bootlegs are better quality lol

 

most of the bootlegs I buy are from bands from the 80s/90s but fair point

 

brother I only buy comfort colors bootlegs

 

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post some cool bootlegs so i know what to buy

 

Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure how underrated it is, especially online I've seen more people finding it lately. But like PTA, it's sort of an instance where something like After Hours or Magnolia can be seen as lesser than the more widely recognized crop of Taxi Driver/Raging Bull/Goodfellas, or in the case of PTA, Boogie Nights/There Will Be Blood/The Master/Phantom Thread.

After Hours as directly influenced by the Trial, though, added a new layer to the film that elevates it even more for me. There's the loose adaptation of Kafka's Before the Law parable at the club entrance, but even the general atmosphere of paranoid absurdity and melding of high/lowbrow is so well done. When I was reading the Trial, and Josef K. tries to sneak a look at the Judge's notes to try and get a hint as to what his trial is even about and finds the Judge's notes are just pornographic doodles, I thought of Paul in After Hours, trapped in the whirlwind of his own absurdity and seeing the bathroom graffiti of a shark biting a guy's dick (It also brought to mind the Big Lebowski when the Dude tries to lightly draw pencil over the notepad for any kind of clue and the notepad just has the doodle of the cartoon guy with a big dick and balls). Having finished that book now, I'd like to revisit After Hours again. Most Scorsese deserves a rewatch anyway. The Age of Innocence is probably my personal most underrated Scorsese, still, though.

 

My boy IRL was just telling me about comfort colours and then didnt send me any examples

 

this is a good place to start, they put up new ones every Friday

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The idea of wearing just a basic plain color T-shirt, without any layer over it or whatever, seems so dull to me.