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I hate to sound like a cranky middle aged man, but that's exactly what I am so... Why does everyone now buy shirts for bands they've never heard and probably wouldn't even like if they did hear them?
I agree it's kind of shitty to interrogate someone about their T-shirt, so I never say anything about it but it just doesn't make sense to me...
I don't walk around wearing shirts for Taylor Swift or Jason Aldean because I don't listen to their music and I don't want people to assume that I do because then they might want to talk to me about it lol
Turn your brain down a little.
The shirts look cool. I see a cool shirt, maybe I don't care about the band and it just looks cool. So what.
So... Expect people who are interested in that band to start a conversation? Some will be shitty about it (name 3 songs), some will be better (hey I love that band, saw them back in '98).
If you have no idea about the band, it may seem like a challenge. Like some middle aged guy chasing you. Really I think it's just people reaching out trying to connect with fellow humans. Some do it shittily, sure. But the impulse in its purist is to make a friend.
Cause they look cool, bands sell the rights to big clothing companies so it's available, labeled as fashion and often cheap. If you walk into a Walmart and see a cool looking Metallica shirt for 10 bucks, why do you have to know the band or songs of it?
I myself also only buy band merch from bands I really like. But I buy it on festivals, concerts or on the internet after I looked for a specific shirt. So my ways of buying this stuff is completely different from fashion oriented people.
Once saw someone wearing a Friends T shirt. They never heard of the show. So not just bands now either. Today's kids just do this and I don't know why. Fuck we are old.
Did they think it was a shirt about friendship? Like "Oh, here's a shirt about having friends! I enjoy having friends, so I will wear it!"
Maybe all those young people wearing Nirvana shirts are Buddhists lol
Yes, you're cranky. Rethink this ethos. Never mind whether you can tell that someone hasn't heard a band, you absolutely do not have the psychic ability to tell what someone likes from how old they are.
Band shirts are usually a good ice breaker for me. Met a lot of cool people and close friends by them talking to me about a shirt I wore. I only buy band shirts of people I really like so it leads to good conversations usually.
I learned to not ask people about band shirts though unless they are obscure-ish. It was fun a few years ago talking to people about Misfits who thought it was just a brand. I personally don't understand why people would wear a band shirt because the pattern is cool, but it doesn't really upset me anymore.
Edit: except shirts that use the Unknown Pleasures design. I saw one awhile that used the design, but the lines made a bird and said "Love" at the bottom. My wife had to escort me out of the store before I made a fool of myself.
Just before your edit, i wanted to write about Unknown Pleasures. I didn't see the bird love version, but lots of other versions and i don't think, they all got the idea from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy.
It doesn't really bother me, i just somehow feel bamboozled by the sight of it.
I thought about that, but it was in the band shirt section next to a tie dyed Slayer crew neck so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only shirts to bands I wear are ones that I like and listen too. Same with shirts I have of tv shows and movies.
Because many of these bands’ symbols and logos are culturally iconic. It’s not my style but still
Also idk I just assume people listen to the band if they wear the shirt. I don’t bother them about it either. Like if you see me in a hemispheres shirt no I don’t want do discuss Cygnus pt2 with a stranger on the street, especially not one who likes rush enough to stop a lady on the street to discuss their music.
Licencing, its cheap to print and for consumers easy to find