I appreciate the anti-gatekeeping sentiment here, but I can’t reconcile that with the judgment I think we’d have for someone wearing a Che Guevara shirt without knowing who he was.
I work a lot of college events, and I see a lot of vintage band shirts, with Dark Side of the Moon the most common. I always ask if they heard the album, and they say Yes only about 20% of the time, so I tell them that their homework assignment is to go home and listen to it tonight, and that it will change their life.
One girl was wearing a Metallica shirt, and she very enthusiastically said she LOVED them, because her Dad always plays them in the car. I could tell it was a genuine loving connection she had with her Dad over Metallica. Truly beautiful.
from my friend who’s a stand-up
men will criticize women for not knowing the bands on their t-shirts but will wear floral patterns without being able to identify any of the flowers
Men will wear floral patterns?
Never heard of a Hawaiian shirt?
The ones with hibiscus all over them? I don’t wear them.
But you have heard of them <Jack_sparrow.jif>
It’s also ok to like a bands visual art even if you are not a fan of their musical art. Or I suppose the other way round too
There’s some truth to the joke through - a while ago one of the fast fashion brands, I think it was H&M, created a line of fake bands just to put on t-shirts and other things. It’s pretty sad.
“Nirvana is just a state I’d like to achieve someday”
Oh I think you have some typos there.
Alternatively: I’m building my own state
And he’s mumblin’
And he’s screamin’
Cause he can’t name
What they’re singing!
Let him wear shirts,
They don’t wanna.
Even cool bands
Like Nirvana!
I can’t even name the bands or titles of songs I regularly listen to. Some of us just listen to music to enjoy it, not to score fact points with music nerds.
Why is it always band shirts tho?
Surely there is at least one person out there wearing a Pikachu shirt that doesn’t know what Pokemon is.
Name 5 of those girls on your ahegao hoodie
Fuckin fake fans everywhere
Name 5 of those girls on your ahegao hoodie
I grew up wearing T-shirts covered in stuff I had no idea about because we would regularly shop at Frenchie’s which is a chain that sells used and B-stock clothing.
Nah, everyone autistic enough to wear a Pokémon shirt in public knows who Pikachu is.
Yeah, BUT… thrift stores, and also charities with donated clothes.
There was a homeless guy wandering around street where I live who was wearing Minecraft creeper cap, so I’d say there’s non-zero chance of him getting Pikachu shirt at some point. 🗿
fair
Concert print too much t shirt and can’t sell it, thriff shop bought a lot of them for cheap and sell for cheap, thrifter saw nice print and bought it without knowing who the band is.
As someone who grew up on Nirvana I’m in no place to gatekeep fashion. My clothes back then were so fucking big that gusts of wind picked me up like a kite. I had an empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
I just carried around the chain, waving it around for fun. In hindsight it may have been menacing neurodivergence. I got really good at chain tricks!
empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
That’s functional. The chain weighed you down so you didn’t drift away.
The wallet chain prevents you from getting robbed because it signals to everyone you have no money
You throw the wallet out like an anchor.
I NEED a single panel news paper comic of this visual.
Okay but the wallet chains (thicker the better, sagging little over knee) were cool
I’m not going to gatekeep this but I will be sad when the conversation goes “cool {band} shirt! You ever listen to their live stuff?” and they go “what? It’s a band?”
So uh, is it just me who saw their logo as a butt plug at first glance?
Oh my god it’s a jewish thing, ugh
You really went OMG because of this elementary school’s twitter logo lol.
Jewish schools are evil - I know this from experience 😭
No, but I did get a sudden urge to play Knights of the Old Republic.
And now I’m pissed again that the fan remaster was Cease & Desist’d.
My favorite band is Old Navy. They were pretty popular in the early 2000s.
Remember Maxell? They were like 98% of my collection.
Name three sea shanties!
I could only get Drunken Sailor and Blow the Man Down, off the top of my head.
To the brig with you!
Well…alright then. I won’t pretend like last time wasn’t entirely unenjoyable. The blowing down is fine. I could do without the rusty razor. We don’t need another nipple incident.
Completely unrelated and just because sea shanties is a theme that seldom comes up anywhere, I will post htis video of a performance of Roll the Old Chariot which I have always been very preferential to:
I liked them back when they were New Navy
One other problem with naming Nirvana songs is that their titles are often not words from the chorus like most mainstream songs.
I think most people who know Nirvana could name Smells like teen spirit even though it’s not in the lyrics. I suspect people could name Come as you are, since it’s the first lyric of the song.
But after that, I guess it might be Heart shaped box?
With Nirvana, when you really want to hear that one song and you go look it up, you always think, okay, what’s the song name? “Yeah!”? That can’t be right. And then you have to go through some process to pry it out of your memory until you remember it’s Lithium.
I recently learned that The Man Who Sold the World was actually a David Bowie song. Naturally, since it’s in the lyrics.
My favorite song of theirs is actually a cover: “Lake of Fire” by the Meat Puppets
It’s just so short!
That was my thought too. Nirvana pops up on my playlists fairly regularly, but I doubt I could have listed 3 of their songs and I grew up with that shit. Reading your post was a few iterations of “Oh yeah, that’s what that song is called!”
Gimme the hum test any day though!
ok, but you cannot disallow a legit band name then.
