Tee Till Death | memories

One of my favorite things about shirts are the memories attached to the shirt. From the show it was purchased at, to memorable occasions wearing it, to random spottings and shout outs while in it. The whole package clinches it for me. Granted, excellent graphics and fonts are key, but at times, they are of lesser importance. I get the feeling metalgstl feels the same way. See what he has to say about this Black Flag Loose Nut Tour 85 tee.

I obtained this shirt in 1992 and have had it ever since. Since then, my son wore this one time when we met Henry Rollins.

The shirt was bought in St. Louis in 1985 by a friend and I have a photo of Henry from that exact show. I will send that photo, if the winner wants it.

Now that’s just fucking cool. Don’t be scared by the opening bid, you might luck out and be the only one. Dumb if you don’t at least get a scan of the photo too.

As a beb getting into hardcore collecting, I was psyched to pick up most things. I have always loved (and will always love) the Gorilla Biscuits. Call it the “Age Of Quarrel for Girls*” if you want, but I’ve always held Start Today as my favorite hardcore lp. Back then at least. Now a days, things done changed. I probably listened to Start Today once a day for months on end. Now, probably haven’t listened to it in a month. Regardless, still an excellent hardcore album.

If you can imagine, my dream was to amass the greatest Gorilla Biscuits collection ever. These days, I leave that to Cliche Jon. For a while, I was doing pretty good. I snagged up most of the GB EPs (I still want a #102 version). And I had all copies of the LP minus test presses, of course. But at one point, I gave my copy on purple vinyl to Casali for some mammoth trade he had worked out (despite him once sniping me on a Wishingwell 4 sided tee …). And I sold a couple copies of my EPs. And my shirts … well, I never really got off the ground with them. Finding a legit Bananacore shirt was near to impossible.

But the first MAJOR score to my GB collection is the “infamous” caveman longsleeve. I picked it up on ebay for something ridiculously cheap like $14. At the time, you’d think I had just scored a Chung King. I was pretty stoked. I was flabbergasted that I won it for so cheap. Seriously, flabbergasted. It arrived a few days later, and it was glorious. Now keep in mind, this was 10-11 years ago so rocking a navy blue longsleeve wasn’t always an issue for me. I’m sure I wore this with some cut off cargos and looked pretty crucial. The yellow sleeve print was awesome, and the FOUR (Yes, 4. Pretty hot shit for an early 90s tee when everything seemed to be one color prints) color back print was amazing.

Years later, I sold it. But thankfully, I replaced it with a Tour 90 longsleeve. Way more crucial, for obvious reasons.

If you are just starting out, this is the shirt for you. It goes for cheap and is WAY more crucial than a YL Noreen tee (small girls who can actually pull off cool YL tees, please don’t buy this and tailor it).