Tags Matching: the clash

Vintage Pimpin’.

By morgado | Published 06/29/2011

Seller vintagepimps isn’t kidding with his username. Lots of rad, low started tees up right now mixed in with the usual run of tees BIN’d in the hundreds of dollars. I think these are the best 4 of the affordable tees, and there’s a $300 Descendents tee (on sale!) that I wish was number 5…

Lars Frederiksen Is NOT Jeff Nelson

By b. murphy | Published 12/10/2010

Lars Frederkisen is no Jeff Nelson by any stretch of the imagination. Granted, Jeff was in Minor Threat, Egg Hunt, Skewbald, High-Back Chairs (anyone got emps?), … while Lars joined Rancid before the second album and also leads Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards. Imagine if Jeff Nelson had a band called Jeff Nelson and The Bastards??

Jeff took the time and effort to put up classic, detailed postings of some of the greatest hardcore items around. He added trivia and minutia, everything a collector would want. Lars did not go that route. No sir. Instead, he gave a handful of tees to this guy with a few words like, “uh, I think I got this 20 years ago,” or “this is old.” Yes, Lars gave his tees to an individual who has been “authorized to sell his stuff on ebay.” His words, not mine. Actually, it gets worse. Because all of his auctions read like this.

I HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO SELL HIS STUFF ON EBAY. HERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO OWN A PART OF PUNK ROCK HISTORY!! YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN ORIGINAL, VINTAGE D.O.A “MURDER” SIZE MEDIUM/LARGE TOUR T-SHIRT. THE SHIRT IS IN GREAT SHAPE FOR BEING 20 YEARS OLD ALTHOUGH THE TAG HAS BEEN TAKEN OUT. LARS SAID HE BOUGHT THIS AT THE SHOW AND WORE IT A BUNCH OF TIMES SINCE THEN.

Yeck. Every auction. Yelling at you. Granted, the shirts aren’t terrible. He’s got a few good ones in there. Take that DOA one for example. Good tee. Have a look for yourself. Maybe you’ll find a gem, or maybe you are a Rancid superfan. Have at it.

Update: Jeff Nelson just upped more items to ebay. Thanks, Cooch!

Straight to Hell.

By morgado | Published 09/09/2010

Gotta admit, never been a big fan of The Clash, and while this is a cool design, it’s not like it hasn’t been licensed and bootlegged out the wazoo. But I wanted to give rainbowgasoline credit for doing the legit thing and putting this original up with a low starting bid instead of a ridiculously high BIN or start bid. Which as I hope you all know by now, is one of my major eBay pet peeves.

Seller Spotlight – fakerudy

By casali | Published 08/10/2009

Here’s another gem of a seller. Do you like your early 80s california punk & hardcore? Dumb if you don’t because this guy has all the good shit. Seriously, the best shit. fakerudy has been hitting up shows since the early 80s. We caught up with him, check it.

1. How did you get started in the punk/ hardcore scene?

It all started for me when The Clash “Combat Rock” came out. I knew that I’d never be the same again. Living in nowhere Kansas, I had never been exposed to punk. For the first year (1983), I listened to U2, Berlin, Missing Persons thinking that this was punk, then I stumbled across a college radio station that played punk and hardcore. When I heard that first hardcore song I knew that “this is what I’ve been looking for.”

2. How did you amass all these amazing tees?

Mostly going to shows and hitting record stores. I was too impatient for mail order, plus I always enjoyed the thrill of a good find!

3. What’s the strongest memory attached to one of these shirts (like a great show, or a funny merch table discussion)?

Way too many!!! Probably the Black Flag “Loose Nut” shirt. That was my first show and my first time to ever meet other punk kids. I still remember it like it was yesterday.