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Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 12:32 ---Is there a motivating factor behind this or is it more a Logan's Run-type scenario?
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Unless the t-shirt is exceptional in some way, wearing band t-shirts reeks of letting your artistic taste define you. It's just kind of tacky.
That said, I'm wearing a Smiths t-shirt right now. In my defense, I didn't pay for it. Girls give me enough shirts that I think I've literally only bought one or two shirts in the past, I don't know, decade.
Tom:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 13:01 ---I'm happy because as a musician I've learned how to avoid some of the traps that make records into absolute crap. The last Alexisonfire record, for example, showed me that making a "return-to-roots" record isn't always a great idea because it sometimes means putting aside clear growth that you've demonstrated in favour of selling more records.
I mean, I was initially pissed because I'd spent money on it, but at least I got something out of it.
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Now I'm kind of worried about what The Dears are working on.
yossarian07:
I'd say I but 1/4 of my cd's. One of my favorite stores is Vintage Vynil, which is a great Independant Record store in St Louis. I'll buy an album or two whenever I'm in the area, but its a bit of a drive. They block torrents where I go to college, so when I'm at school I buy cd's more often.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 29 Dec 2007, 13:38 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 12:32 ---Is there a motivating factor behind this or is it more a Logan's Run-type scenario?
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Unless the t-shirt is exceptional in some way, wearing band t-shirts reeks of letting your artistic taste define you. It's just kind of tacky.
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I'm sorry, endorsing a band you like is now tacky? What the fuck? Where has this come from?
Jackie Blue:
I see it as tacky because it's branding. I highly doubt that wearing a band's t-shirt has any effect other than alllowing other people to recognise you as part of a certain subgroup. Just wearing a shirt that says BAND is not "endorsing" them. It's not like people are going to pass by you on the street, see your shirt and think "Wow, I should buy that album!"
If the band t-shirt is artistically pleasing, that's cool. But, at least everywhere I've been, there is a certain very prevalent kind of person who meticulously chooses which BAND t-shirt to wear for maximum Style Points, especially when going to a show. Speaking for myself and most people I know, it's better to dissociate oneself from that demographic.
And that is not even getting into "ironic" t-shirt wearing.
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