Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The New T-Shirt Revolution

Most music fans have shelled out hard earned cash for a band T-shirt at some point. Sometimes, a simple band logo will suffice. At others, a tour T-shirt with a great list of dates on the back can work as a great souvenir. The recent(ish) trend for retro designs proves that the lowly band T-shirt is far from dead, and has even sparked a bizarre trend for people sporting clothing bearing the name of artists whose work isn’t familiar to them. How else to explain the abundance of Motorhead T-shirts draped over the skeletal frames of catwalk models a few years back? Lemmy must have had a good laugh about that one (a laugh that took him all the way to the bank).

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