what’s the oldest band shirt you still own?

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WrekTheHead@reddit

Not that I can think of. There was a They Might Be Giants one, but that's long gone. Julian Cope from 2000 would be the next oldest. There was a very long fallow period in my gig-going!

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salmacis@reddit

Magnum, 1988. It's a bit faded these days.

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SeaworthinessHead613@reddit

Hawkwind - Chronicles of the Blacksword 1985.

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WrekTheHead@reddit

The The Versus The World, 1988 (?). Doesn't fit though...

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see that?

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

that’s a really nice one, i have one 1994. is that the only band shirt you have?

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WrekTheHead@reddit

No, I've got plenty but much more recent.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

any from the 90s?

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see what that looks like?

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FizzbuzzAvabanana@reddit

God Save The Queen Pistols T-Shirt. Got it for Xmas 77, still fits, a little faded but in remarkably good nick.

Doesn't leave the house, gets worn as a comfort hug & reminisce, whenever I feel the need. It is without doubt the most comfortable t-shirt I've ever owned, so soft.

When made I doubt anyone expected it to end up being used for that purpose.

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WingDingKing@reddit

Therapy? - Green long sleeve t shirt from approx 1992 - says wake Up.. (on front) and time to die therapy? (on back)

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see what that looks like? i’ll send you a message! should be under your requests

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WendyPortledge@reddit

1996, Barenaked Ladies, Born On A Pirate Ship tour. First concert I went to.

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Kitchen_Moose717@reddit

Nine Below Zero 1982. Suffice to say it doesn’t fit me anymore!

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Glozboy@reddit

I still have my Oasis t-shirt from my first ever gig at Finsbury Park in 2002. It's unwearable due to several holes so I'm going to get it framed.

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AirlineSevere7456@reddit

I have an Iron Maiden Piece of Mind t-shirt from 1990s

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll message you if you don’t mind

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AirlineSevere7456@reddit

I'll dig it out later when I have time

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Otherwise-Plane8282@reddit

I’ve still got one from when Simple Minds played the MK Bowl in ‘86 it doesn’t fit anymore though lol

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Significant_Return_2@reddit

Sonic Youth from 1992. They played at Kilburn National and were supported by Mudhoney.

Amazing gig, the support were better than the main band. I have both t shirts! It’s not often that a support act has a t shirt on sale.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

oh wow! can i see what shirts they are? i’ll send you a message! should be under requests

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More-Complaint@reddit

Echo and the Bunnymen from about '83. I bought it in HMV on sale.

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MarilynManson2003@reddit

Oldest bootleg I own is from Marilyn Manson’s Portrait of an American Family era, 1994.

Oldest original I own is from Marilyn Manson’s ‘Rape of the World’ tour, 2007.

And the oldest that I’ve had since its release is from Marilyn Manson’s WE ARE CHAOS era, 2020.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see the 1994 one?

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MarilynManson2003@reddit

I have bootlegs of these three from 1994:

https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/marilyn-manson-‘hate-you’-tshirt

https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/marilyn-manson-‘god-fuck’-tshirt

https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/marilyn-manson-god-fuck

And I have about ten from between 1995-2003.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

what do the bootlegs look like? is it just an exact copy of those? i own all of those except the last one!

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UnleashedLlama@reddit

I own a Pulp one from 1995. It hasn't fitted me since about 1997.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see that?

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UnleashedLlama@reddit

It's seen better days, even with holes under the arms, but I'll never bin it.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

is that the only band one you have?

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pattybutty@reddit

I've got other band tshirts (Stones roses, seahorses, blur, foo fighters etc), but the REM one is the oldest

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

are the others modern?

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Hyperion2023@reddit

Radiohead 1994 yellow and red abomination - awful colours but I still love it

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

id love to see how that looks if you don’t mind! i’ll send you a message!

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Hyperion2023@reddit

I’ll see if I can get a pic tomorrow, no worries!

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

sounds good! my message should be under the requests

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ADJB23@reddit

Got an original Mozart one somewhere in the wardrobe. From his second tour

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OldLondon@reddit

Iron maiden secret gig shirt from Donington warm up 1988 “Charlotte and the harlots”

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HauntingTheVoid@reddit

1992 obituary shirt, I bought it off a mate for a tenner in 2010

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hoganpaul@reddit

A Peter Gabriel sweatshirt 'Playtime 88' from the 1983 tour.

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imnotabotimafreeman@reddit

i saw them on that tour, leeds university

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

thanks for your response!

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A Green Day t-shirt from 2001 when they played Gig On The Green in Glasgow. It’s faded and has ripped a couple of times under the arm pits which I’ve had my mum sew up for me. These days it resides in a box and hasn’t been worn in a long time

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imtheorangeycenter@reddit

Ben Folds Five, '96.

Not old enough to have been (myself!) to anything earlier - unless you'd count the Wurzels. But I think their merch is drinkable-only.

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ThisLeeNoble@reddit

Faith No More Angel Dust long sleeve and GnR Use Your Illusion tie-dyed (yellow front, blue back)

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

nice! would love to see what the faith no more shirt looks like! i’ll send you a message

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ThisLeeNoble@reddit

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WillSquat4Money@reddit

The Darkness - Permission to Land Tour ‘03. Was oversized at the time but fit fine when I became an adult, nice little bit of forward thinking (rare for me).

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peppermint_aero@reddit

I saw that tour; it was fantastic

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No_Application_8698@reddit

I have a Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction t shirt from the late ‘80s (87, 88?) which was given to me in the late ’90s by an ex boyfriend. Sadly I never saw them live.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Saw them in 1992. They were great. Couldn't afford a T-shirt as well as the tickets, though. Now everyone has the T-shirts, I don't know how you could identify an original.

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No_Application_8698@reddit

It’s almost identical to the new ones, except for the ‘aged’ condition. It’s the classic design that you’re picturing. I only know or believe it’s genuine because my then-boyfriend gave it to me in 1997 and said that he’d bought it at the gig back in the day. He said he’d ’grown out of’ rock and metal and was heavily into dance and trance, so he didn’t want it any longer!

I’m trying to remember when the craze for re-issued/fake tour t shirts became popular. I think it was the early ’00s?

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stupre1972@reddit

Faith no More from about 1989 - bought it at the Hummingbird in Birmingham (now the O2 Academy is think)

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see how that looks!

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TheKingMonkey@reddit

I’ve got a Mogwai Blur: are shite T-shirt from the late 90s. Wore it to a Blur gig the same year because I’m cool and everything.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

epic

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Mother_Ad7869@reddit

Depeche Mode from 1993, worn only once, still fits lol 🥰🌹

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dr_tch0ck@reddit

I have a Mozart one from 1772

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Wonderpants_uk@reddit

I kept a Madonna Truth or Dare t-shirt for years. Sold it fairly recently on eBay.

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BlackJackKetchum@reddit

Alabama 3 from the late 90s. I flogged all my old Goth band ones a while back and made a killing on eBay.

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Meat2480@reddit

Iron Maiden and the Almighty,Powertrippin t shirts from the 90'tour,(real dead/ live tour,

I had loads from MOR in the 90's, wish I had the guns n roses one with the back cover of the album on the back, from 88

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gregd303@reddit

The charlatans - Jesus hairdo '94 . I owned a Blur red long sleeve that preceded that, it got lent to my mates Gf and she kept it :-s I may have earlier than those, probably a Happy Mondays or Stone Roses T, but they got updated along the way.

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Bez666@reddit

James from around 91 or so.still fits if I wear it as a tank top.

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Randster78@reddit

My first gig - Kiss, Revenge Tour 1992. Knowing nothing about them other then "God Gave Rock and Roll II you" after Bill & Ted, my 13 yo arse was in for a surprise!

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Benreh@reddit

A long sleeve, Prodigy breathe single release shirt from the late 90s I think.

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brewer01902@reddit

Iron Maiden from Leeds festival 2005. Iron Maiden from Twickenham 2008.

According to the print on it Rush’s Moving Pictures tour from 1981, but thats a repro and 5 years before I was born.

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Practical_Drink8676@reddit

Therapy? Punk Floyd from monsters of rock 95

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like!

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Practical_Drink8676@reddit

Old and knackered like myself 🤪

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

i sent you a message

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Practical_Drink8676@reddit

I can't see it

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

should be under requests

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TheDawiWhisperer@reddit

Less than Jake Lego t-shirt from the borders and boundaries your in 2001.

Can't wear it anymore or it'll fall apart

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yoloswaggins92@reddit

I have a Slipknot one from 2002 somewhere

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iktw@reddit

The Cure 1990

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll message you if you don’t mind?

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iktw@reddit

It's in storage today but here it was in 2014 the last time I assembled all my Disintegration stuff in one place!

It's very faded and very thin, I wear it maybe once every 2 years for fear of, well, disintegration...

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iktw@reddit

I last got it out in 2023, just found it

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

love that! really nice one

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brokenlandmine@reddit

Ooooh this is a cool one

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oblongunreal@reddit

Swans and Big Black from the late 80s, in a drawer somewhere.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll send you a message!

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ExultentPisces@reddit

Despite absolutely loving music and everything about it, I’ve only ever owned one band shirt. I wore it once. And on that day, my girlfriend dumped me.

Never again.

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brokenlandmine@reddit

I don't think the t-shirt was the cause. Unless it was a Glittermen t-shirt, that would make sense 😘

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ExultentPisces@reddit

Tbh, I’ve always refused to wear band shirts. I’m not sure why. I got that one as a gift and on that morning I had nothing else clean to put on.

The reality is she figured out that I wasn’t actually all that interested in her. I was just going along with things because no one else was getting into bed with me, haha.

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Fit-Obligation4962@reddit

Theyre pretty wron and wouldn’t fit me now

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

very cool ones! are they the only ones you have?

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Fit-Obligation4962@reddit

Yes all I have left from my punk days.

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GroomingTips96@reddit

Probably a neds long sleeve shirt from 91 holes in the elbow now.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

can i see that?

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mdmnl@reddit

Queens of the Stone Age (2003)

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

thanks for your response!

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mdmnl@reddit

No worries. The real question is would I admit to still having my Bad tour Michael Jackson t-shirt if it were still around...

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aff_it@reddit

I seen MJ during the Dangerous Tour around 92/93. Bought the T Shirt

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

which one would that be?

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mdmnl@reddit

I remember the "programme" costing £10, a princely sum in the late '80s.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

hahaha MJ is the greatest

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Springsteen Born in the USA from a tour in 1991.

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creepyg81@reddit

Björk Homogenic tour t shirt, so 1997.

It's actually in perfect condition. I've just 'outgrown' it as I was a skinny teenager when I bought it!

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll send a message if you don’t mind?

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flyingfresian@reddit

A NIN hoodie that was passed around our friend group for years. We've been circulating it since the mid-90s.

Personally, a Rage Against the Machine shirt from when they played T in the Park in 2008.

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TomsRealFace@reddit

Sepultura chaos AD long sleeve T-shirt. I wear it decorating now

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Northwindlowlander@reddit

Refuse Repaint

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll send you a message

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Mammoth-Constant3005@reddit

Gary Moore out in the fields tour 1989

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Northwindlowlander@reddit

Donington Monsters Of Rock 94. It started out black, now it's sort of pale grey.

Incidentally my brother found out a while back that old tour shirts can be worth a ton of money, he sold a Nirvana shirt he bought in HMV for £6 and got something like £400 for it. I sold a poor condition U2 shirt for £90. It's bananas.

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Coylee_91@reddit

Pink Floyd, Division Bell tour 1994. Commandeered from my dad, I would have only been 3 at the time of the gig.

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SavageRabbitX@reddit

Fear Factory Obsolete long sleeve crew T-shirt

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marstoncutler@reddit

Suede - Head Music - bought at V99, my first festival when I was 16. Still fits. Armpits are a bit crispy though. Still my favourite band.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

incredible band

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marstoncutler@reddit

And just as good now as they were 30 years ago. Amazing energy live and new albums are bangers

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Scared-Room-9962@reddit

That's a pretty cool t shirt.

My dad has a T shirt from the Killers tour by Iron Maiden.

I say T shirt, it's actually a duster now.

Well, it was a duster in about 1988

It's now just a rag he keeps so my mam never forgets what she did to it.

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mdmnl@reddit

Like a flag captured by the enemy.

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Accurate_Till_4474@reddit

Lene Lovich. Stateless Tour 1979.

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living2late@reddit

Big Black - Songs about Fucking, from the 1980s. I'm a dad now though so never wear it.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like! i’ll send you a message

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jeanclaudecardboarde@reddit

Big Black from their final UK tour in 1987.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like!

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jeanclaudecardboarde@reddit

It's packed away in a vacuum bag at the moment but the logo is faded and stretched. I'd post a photo but I don't know how to in a post reply.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

i’ll send you a message

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heliskinki@reddit

Senseless Things t shirt circa 1990, signed by Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz artist) who did the illustration on the tee.

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Mr_XIII_@reddit

Acquired at a gig would be Wednesday 13 circa 2005 Acquired in 2000 is the infamous Cradle of Filth Jesus T-shirt

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Chelz91@reddit

Aswad from I don’t know when

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bangkokali@reddit

Judas Priest the Angel of Retribution so its 2005 but I bought from some bloke in at the back of Hammersmith Apollo for something like a fiver

I also have a Kiss farewell tour t shirt from 2000 but I bought that in a market in Bangkok hahaha

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zorba-9@reddit

Totally thrashed Nazareth 1972

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Psycho_Splodge@reddit

I've got a download 2007 shirt somewhere, actual band shirt I can still fit into would probably be slipknot 2009 or alestorm 2010

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Made_Up_Name_1@reddit

Tangerine Dream, purchased from the merch table, Birmingham Odeon, 7th Nov 1980.

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HorseyBot3000@reddit

My dad’s monsters of rock shirt from 1987

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Fit-Obligation4962@reddit

A Clash and Siouxsie one from late 70’s

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like!

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

A Download 2014 t shirt. It's now 3 sizes too big, but it was the first festival and first 'proper' music event I went to. I have a McLaren t shirt that's a couple of years older that I bought at the British Grand Prix, that's also now 3 sizes too big.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

thanks for your response!

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quarky_uk@reddit

Def Leppard - Hysteria, around '88.

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bigsillygiant@reddit

An oasis heathen chemistry one from 2001/2

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like!

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Single-Position-4194@reddit

Pantera tour T-shirt from 1992 (don't know where it is now though).

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

is that the only one?

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Single-Position-4194@reddit

That I know of, yes. T-shirts tend to shrink (I don't grow bigger, obviously:) ), and I then get rid of them.

I was never really a big one for buying band shirts anyway. I had a long sleeved Alice In Chains shirt that looked like someone had puked down the front of it - don't miss that one at all - and one of Transvision Vamp from the late 80s (nice picture of Wendy James on the front).

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

would love to see what that looks like!

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OrganizationFun2140@reddit

Got a few from mid-late 90s. Most are only good for gardening/cleaning these days.

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

nice, which bands?

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gardenfella@reddit

Eskimos & Egypt

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NeedleworkerEntire74@reddit (OP)

thanks for your response!

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Natural_Bet6685@reddit

KISS - Sheffield arena 18/05/1992

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