Tags Matching: the wrong side

TWS Pink LOC.

By morgado | Published 10/07/2011

Seller compact105 dates this Wrong Side tee at 2007 or 2008, but brother you are wayyyy off on that one…

Now, it certainly is likely he picked this shirt up in 2007 or 2008 (it’s an XL, and XL’s had a bad habit of sticking around in the bottom of the merch bin until about 2009), but this design actually is from 2005. They were made for the Terror/Righteous Jams/Wrong Side/COA show at Roman’s on May 7 of that year (tho it was actually moved next door to the Mallard). Two versions were made: one with pink ink (because we made girl shirts) and one with white. I don’t know why we did men’s sizes with the pink ink, I think it may have just been a popular ironic style at the time that I wanted to dip my beak into (I know Death Threat also had men’s tees with pink lettering around then too). I actually just found yet another XL of this in the bottom of an old bin the other day… guess I should keep my eye on where this ends, eh?

Noose – An Awkward Look

By b. murphy | Published 08/28/2011

Nooses. Tough look to pull off in public. I remember reading this story from acrucialdood somewhere. B9?

pretty offensive based solely on imagery. it was awkward in college getting on the campus bus wearing this not knowing one state over there was a pretty big news story involving a hangman’s noose and some racially-charged speech. NO WONDER THEY ALL LOOKED AT ME WITH DISDAIN! true story.

I can picture that. I never got down with this one. But hey, that’s me. For a $5.50 BIN, maybe that’s the look for you. For $5.50, you better cut the sleeves off.

And then there is the band Noose. I remember talking to Bucky at Sound And Fury 2011. He was telling me about how kids went APESHIT for this shirt. He said the more offensive looking they made their shirts, the faster they seemed to sell out. It seems to work. Not sure I can hang, but I sure was a fan of the band. Plus, vegan straight edge. You know I’m backing that. Grab this Noose shirt from smittywestoc. -20 scene points for him … Hang ‘Em If They’re High Tour 2011. Damn.

Why Buy This When You Can Buy This:

By morgado | Published 08/23/2011

Apologies to enjoid3, but this Wrong Side tee was a terrible, horrible idea. I should know: I designed this abortion. Don’t buy it unless you’re a completist.

No sir, don’t buy it. Especially since due to popular demand, for a limited time you can head over to Shop Shogun and buy the revamped version from last months show with Cro-mags:

Fresh for 2011 you suckas!

True Stories Of Fake Racism.

By morgado | Published 08/11/2011

A true story about this Shop Shogun sold Wrong Side tee from acrucialdood, and one I can indirectly back up as legit.

it was awkward in college getting on the campus bus wearing this not knowing one state over there was a pretty big news story involving a hangman’s noose (a lynch mob noose is not the same as a hangman’s noose- ed) and some racially-charged speech. NO WONDER THEY ALL LOOKED AT ME WITH DISDAIN! true story.

Why can I back this up as legit without having been there? Flashback to Edge Day 2007, when I got a phone call mid-show (I was in NY, not at that years show). One of my friends happened to be wearing this tee, and the National Geographic producer started telling at him, wanting to know why him wearing a racist shirt was tolerated and lecturing him over it being offensive. Which I thought was hilarious, since there is nothing inherently racist about a noose or a hanging. But this has must have been around the same time as the incident mentioned in the seller’s story, so I totally believe that a public bus would get you just as many dirty looks. Punk fn’ rock, I guess. Shame my friend arguing with the producer didn’t make it into that crappy show…

Efil4kcurtpmud.

By morgado | Published 05/26/2011

When I posted about the Wrong Side NWA rip off tees from our lone California show, I mentioned that we had also done a small amount of crew necks to go with ‘em (no, I don’t remember exactly how many, you’d have to ask Andy from L.I.O.N., he hooked up the merch that day. I want to say below 10 though). Well, surprise surprise, seller savagelacix631 has shown up with one available for your TWS/NWA repping needs…

Real Bands Don’t Die.

By morgado | Published 05/10/2011

Seller chainxcrew says:

I don’t know much about this shirt but I’m sure Chris at TTD can shed some light! REAL BANDS DON’T DIE!

The story behind the shirt is pretty eazy to tell. We did one West Coast TWS show, in March of 2006 at Chain Reaction in Anaheim. Since it was a Cali show, we made 100 or so N.W.A. “efiL4saggiN/Real Niggas Don’t Die” rip off tees (the Real Niggas rip is on the back, check the auction for the pic), along with a handful of crewnecks. The show was with L.I.O.N. and More to Pride (I think it may have been their first last show), and maybe Piece by Piece as well. There were multiple angles filmed of all the sets, but all I’ve ever seen of ours was a 30 second snippet of War of Words that used to be on youtube. It’s gone now, but the user who had it up still has the L.I.O.N. Crew intro up…

TWS line up for the show was me, DFJ, Martin on guitar, and Foster on bass. We intro’d with the beginning of Life of Agony’s This Time. If any one has any pictures from that gig, or even one angle of the video, holler at me in the comments.

Morgado Art Collection.

By morgado | Published 04/28/2011

Since I’ve been spending more of my week on art then posts, I figured it might be appropriate to post up these three auctions (with BINs. High ones) from ragingbull20. Why? Because I did the design/artwork for all three.

This was based off a doodle I made while we were recording the lp with Jamie Locke. Obviously it was playing off the Feeding Time at the Zoo title for the intro. I think I may have even literally given Greg a drawing no bigger than a napkin.

I actually didn’t even know this version of the first War Hungry design I did made it on a tee. The original drawing had the band name under the tank/goblins, with a smiley face nuke cloud in the background, and they had all been drawn separately. So on a whim, or maybe in case they didn’t like the nuke cloud, I pasted up the sideways version used above.

Pretty sure I’ve explained this one before, so in short: Alferd Packer. Google him. Hatchet in your head.

We Interrupt The Metal Monday Night Shift With BINs!

By morgado | Published 02/28/2011

Quick break from the Metal to bring you a large batch of mostly low BIN’s from seller xbackontrack, tho he makes up for some of those low prices with a $7 shipping charge… still, even with the shipping, it’s still a bunch of reasonable BIN’s. The only high one posted here is this Step Forward tee, but the BIN price makes sense given what SF gear has been selling for…

(You might still be able to get that TWS ringer from Six Feet Under Records, not sure tho. I AM sure that most of this stuff can be found for full price elsewhere just in general tho.)

More BIN’s can be found in his other auctions…

Wrong Side Tees.

By morgado | Published 02/15/2011

Seller setitoff101 brings us a couple Wrong Side tees today, both of which you can acquire in differing color schemes than these (and for the Cornerstone rip, sans As One Fest specific back print) from the fine folks at Shop Shogun.

The above design was debuted at United Blood, and then sold through Mission Merch as crew necks, tanks and tees, in both this blue and a gray colorway (there was also an XL white crew neck with purple and I think yellow ink that was auctioned off to the highest bidder at UB), and as mentioned the Cornerstone rip off was sold at As One Fest, in Red Sox and Mets colorways. And yes, I know the font is wrong. Reason did the layout for me because I couldn’t find a good scan of the Cornerstone guy, and then he in turn couldn’t find the matching font. But I think he came pretty damn close.

Where Is This Dude Getting His Information?

By morgado | Published 09/01/2010

Seller iowncds has a lot of explaining to do, because I can state for a fact that all of the following auctions are full of false information.

Let’s start with the Taz tanktop. He claims:

These were made and sold at two separate shows. The first was the Six Feet Under Showcase in Philadelphia, PA on June 26, 2010 they sold out before the band even got a chance to play. They were also made and sold at Sound and Fury 2010 they also sold out there before the band got a chance to play. In total there is probably about 70 of these tank tops in existence.

Well, it’s partially true, in that they were sold at those two shows. Buttttt also a bunch of other shows. From the mouth of the Mob:

Who says there are only 75 of these?

These were sold at about 5 different shows. There’s definitely over
100 of these out there.

…they definitely did not sell out (at Sound and Fury).
I took a pretty good amount of these home with me on
an airplane. It cost me, like $25 in extra baggage.

Hey, mistakes happen. 70, 100… I can chalk that up to a guesstimate. But then he makes the same claim for this version:

Yeah, it’s not true for that either.

That blue one was only sold at the FP show and a local Boston show
afterwards. It did not sell out at the FP show, and we didn’t have
them at S&F because I didn’t like the way the design looked on the
blue shirt. Total imaginary information.

I can also attest to the blue versions not selling out at FP, as I had a bunch shoved in my hands with the request that I “take these so I’ll have less leftover merch sitting in my room”. But hey, the shirts are just two different colors, again, maybe it’s just a mistake. Maybe he just saw they had the same artwork, cut and pasted his description, and changed the word “tank tops” to “t-shirts”. It happens. So now let’s travel back to the Rival Mob merch table at United Blood 2010…

This design was made and sold at United Blood Fest 2010 which took place this past March. Only about 40 were printed and they sold out fast never to be reprinted.

Did these sell out at UB? Yes (fast is arguable, though Doug and I WERE kept pretty busy for awhile there). Were they never reprinted? Yes, and that’s a shame. Were there only 40? No.

We made at least 2x that many.

So at this point, I have to ask the question, who is giving him his information? I’d hate to think he’s just pulling the numbers out of his ass. So I figured I’d skim through his other auctions, see what else he is saying… and while most of the rest don’t make any claims to rarity, he isn’t helping my mind rest at ease any with these next two…

The band only made about two dozen of these all foam camo hats and they were mostly given out to friends only. Again the band never sold this hat.

So what happened to the rest of the “mostly” if this hat was never sold? I’ll tell you what happened to them, THEY WERE SOLD BY THE BAND. These hats were absolutely positively sold to the general public at least once I can think of: the Terror/Wrong Side/RJ show in Brockton. In fact, they weren’t the only RJ’s hat being sold that day: there was a sister version that was black with pink writing. I can’t speak to exactly how many were actually made, but at least a half dozen were accidentally left in the TWS merch box and sold haphazardly at later gigs.

Now look. Even though we’re 4 auctions of misinformation in, I still want to be fair and chalk this all up to a misunderstanding. I’m just that kind of guy. But this one. THIS ONE… ohhhh you pissed me off with this one buddy.

These were made and sold at the Great American Hardcore Fest which took place in Boston Fall of 2009. Only a few of this design were printed on ringer T’s and were given out to friends of the band.

False. Flat out false. You are straight up MAKING THAT UP. How do I know that? Because exactly ONE person would know the info on this, and that one person is me and nobody has asked me EVER. We made 100 of these, ALL on ringer tees, and exactly ONE was given away at the GAHC. The rest didn’t really sell; I got stuck with like half of what we made, and minus a couple stragglers I found in the car that I sold for cheap when we did that quickie set in Haverhill a couple months ago, they were all passed off to Dave Sausage to distro through Six Feet Under Records, where, oh weird, YOU CAN STILL BUY THEM!

So seriously dude, where are you getting your info from? Cuz while some of it’s close, you’re nowhere near getting a cigar, and I sure as shinola ain’t happy about the total fabrication that is that TWS description…

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