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looking at cool t shirt designs bike and non bike related.
What tickles your pickle?
Photos please...
you win.
My fave..
Red Molotov do some smart ones, this being a favourite:
https://www.redmolotov.com/catalogue/tshirts/all/shipping-forecast-areas-tshirt.html
Surely a cool t shirt is a vest....
I like that Rust components tee.
Is it ok to wear a branded t-shirt when you don't use the product?
Er, do you know the history around that slogan, bikebuoy? Decidedly not cool.
Superdry do some great t shirts.
I especially like the ones with random Japanese characters and words like "Property of Athletic Div. Inc." on them.
I do know the history yes.
Started by some agreived DJ who hated Disco because it was being played over his beloved Rock, he then started a campaign proclaiming Disco has both racist and homophobic overtones and blurting out racism and homophobia himself. The campaign gathered pace with Rock fans trashing a BeeGees gig and then the hard right political movement got involved and started to use the political power they had to lay over the top of Disco that only Blacks and Gays listened to it.
Thankfully the irony is too obvious and Disco Sucks t-shirt became a moniker, ne’ a brand, for hatred against racism, homophobia, bigots and misogyny.
I wear mine with pride.
HTHs.
I must have missed the memo about it becoming a pro-equality message. Got any links to help lift me out of 1979?
I made some shirts a while ago....is shameless self promotion acceptable?
Other t-shirt manufacturers are avaliable
Rapanui are based down on the IOW and make organic t-shirts which are pretty cool (I have 4 so far). They have good environmental values and t-shirts are really comfortable!
I must have missed the memo about it becoming a pro-equality message. Got any links to help lift me out of 1979?
I reckon you should get yourself to a proper good disco (usually in a tent in a field these days) grab yourself a bit of whatever everyone is having, get into the music
You'll soon realise that the power of love is stronger than the power of hate, even if you're wearing an ironic t-shirt
They might have been " cool " just prior to you posting them on here ...but the moment you did they went from " cool" to "naff"....
If you are trying that hard to be cool ..youre missing the point ..
I reckon you should get yourself to a proper good disco (usually in a tent in a field these days) grab yourself a bit of whatever everyone is having, get into the music
You’ll soon realise that the power of love is stronger than the power of hate, even if you’re wearing an ironic t-shirt.
Yeah, I get that, don't worry. (Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, badum-tischh…)
It's just that if I saw someone walking down the road wearing a "disco sucks" T-shirt I'd assume they were either overtly anti-gay or had no idea what they were wearing. I'm asking, entirely genuinely, whether that assumption would be wrong, and if so when and how the meaning changed and it "became a brand for hatred against racism, homophobia, bigots and misogyny."
If it did, great, I just missed out on that bit of its history and I'd like to know about it.
(And yes, I do get irony too, but if it's just one person doing it with no context whatsoever it's a bit of a dry hump to make it work when irony isn't most people's first assumption of explanation. And when you do end up trying to explain it, it all goes a bit Schrödinger's Douchebag.)
I have to admit that I would never have thought that a ‘disco sucks’ tee was homophobic, but then, I’m not American, and I’ve never been interested enough in the music or any political issues that may have arisen around it.
That’s not to say I hate disco, there’s some I really like, same as some dance, EDM, and such.
One of my current faves is this:
and this one:
I wouldn’t worry about the Disco Sucks T, it is just a t-shirt after all.
And let’s face it, who hasn’t used the object to proclaim an allegiance to a movement..
Reason I remember it was because I was in the US back then and it became a moniker of our youth, you either liked Disco or didn’t, if you liked it you wore the T, if you hated it you wore the T..
Anyway..
I vote this as another option..
Or..
Who didn't own one of these babies back then..
Popular with some back in the 90’s..
Could be coming back into fashion in say.. 10 years so best get in before the rush..
Thursdayshirts do some pretty cool ones...
Good shout disben I like the sharks, andeh yours is good too and given I'm a 29ing mincer I don't usually go for DH style stuff 🙂
I have a JMC one of Binners' design , its a good quality and fits well and not too bikey
Trouble with wearing an "ironic" or meaningful t-shirt 'with pride' is that the majority of people who see will just think "He doesn't like disco music." pretty pointless really, I'm sure you'll agree.
I've got a JMC t as well. I like it, but I'm not sure if it's cool. My son doesn't think it is. I think my Clipping t-shirt is cool, but my And Yet it Moves t-shirt has had the most comments. Although a big bouncer geezer nodded and smiled at my "Allo Gov'ner" (JJ Doom) t at a gig once. I was pleased with that.
Anything from a band or artist that split up or died before you were born
Planks, Graham?
Admitting that skiing is cooler. Finally!
Some good people at Planks!
Anything from a band or artist that split up or died before you were born
I know. Bloody Johnny-come-lately's with their Ramones tshirts from Topshop.
I've been wearing my Schrödinger’s Douchebag tshirt since they released 'Difficult Second Album' on limited edition splatter vinyl in 1973.
Does the new forum have a Like button yet?
Trouble with wearing an “ironic” or meaningful t-shirt ‘with pride’ is that the majority of people who see will just think “He doesn’t like disco music.” pretty pointless really, I’m sure you’ll agree
depends where you're wearing though..
If you're wearing it at a disco then folks will get it..
If you're wearing a 'cool' ironic T-shirt with pride just on a daily basis as you go about your business, you might have to question whether you may in fact be a complete Colin Hunt
what about this one?
Always wanted an original R Crumb Keep on Trucking tee.
Crumb lost control of his copyright hence my reference to 'original'.
If the link works you will see the image.
A true classic.
Anything from a band or artist that split up or died before you were born
I’m often quietly amused when I see teens wearing Led Zeppelin US Tour tees, as well as Ramones tees.
Never did see the Ramones, sadly, and the Zeppelin tee I had from Earle’s Court was an iron-on design, and faded after six months.
Wouldn’t fit me now, anyway, and my Buzzcocks tee is too tight to wear in polite company.
I’ve got three Curve tees from two different tours back in the 90’s that are still wearable, mind.
Planks, Graham?
Admitting that skiing is cooler. Finally!
Some good people at Planks!
Nah #Boarder4life 😁 but Planks sponsor Woodsy so yeah, good people, and I thought their t-shirts looked decent.
Love the reaction this T shirt gets when ,almost everyone miss reads it.
I quite fancy a Disco Sucks tee shirt now. But only people on this thread would understand the complex frisson of its meaning though.
Loving the Crims Countzero! Saw both those tours.
I’m often quietly amused when I see teens wearing Led Zeppelin US Tour tees, as well as Ramones tees.
You realise they only wear them because they sell them in Top Shop? Or because they've seen some useless celeb wearing one. Most of them probably don't even know it's a band.
I saw shorty's skateboards t shirt with an arty logo print. If you took a pinch either side and pulled it up a couple of inches up to hide a fold of the logo, it said "**** off" instead.
Edit. I remembered it being artier and funnier. I might have been about 15 when I saw it last though!
Don't Don't know what's happened to image posting. Comes up fine just with the image address on its own in preview. then doesn't show in the thread. tried with the img tags and that doesn't work either.
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[i]Don’t know what’s happened to image posting.[/i]
It's become easier, just copy the image and paste it.
If you have permission to link it, it'll appear. That t-shirt shop has blocked direct linking by the look of it.
So you have to do this
If you need really cool t-shirts with obscure references to popular culture this site is you:
https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/category/t-shirts_3/
A good plain white tee takes some beating
"lastexittonowhere.com" - one man's cool is another man's massively nerdy!
I have one of these t-shirts somewhere - https://tinyurl.com/y8taynzu <b> </b>not the same as the one Nile Rodgers is wearing, but he's pretty cool, so I'm in good company. Plus you can't get them anymore 😉
I like this one.
You’ll soon realise that the power of love is stronger than the power of hate,
Which version? Charley Pride, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Huey Lewis & the News or Jennifer Rush?
You missed Gabrielle Aplin, Uni'verss
and Englebert Humperdinck amongst others..
I was actually thinking more along the lines of
Stick this on a t-shirt
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Edlong wins.
agree 🙂
I live in Tee's when not in work, and am always on the look put for some thing different, tend to get stuff from things like local Roller Derby Teams, (Rioy City Ravens, Tiger Bay Brawlers) and independent bike clubs such as NLTCBMBC whio do limited runs of stuff, (Pizzagram being a personal fave) currently awaiting delivery from Bad Monday Apparel.
one small note, must remember not to wear the "F--- Chain Store Skate Shops" Tee from CSC on casual Friday if customers are coming in.
I'll check back later for more recommendations.
RJ
ofcourse when talking about cool shirt the "Three Wolf Moon" will always be on top! it has Awesome review on Amazon.
Funny thing happened to me when wearing a home made t-shirt many years ago. Mate of mine taught himself to screen print tees and I got him to do me one of the infamous Big Black album sleeve. No words, just the pic and the back cover on the back.
I was wearing the t-shirt in Greece on holiday and we went into a little shop. As I was paying for something the young fella on the till spies my tee and shouts "SONGS ABOUT ****ING!!" in a broad Greek accent! I was quite embarrassed! 😆
Am I the only one looking at Rocketdog and thinking of this guy?
If in doubt, Flump out.
OP: what are you trying to achieve with this t shirt? Make a statement? Be 'cool' (however you define this)? Or purely keep your nips warm?
What the OP needs is a Global Hypercolor t-shirt.
Then it would be immediately evident how cool or otherwise they were
Funny thing happened to me when wearing a home made t-shirt many years ago.
I'll be the judge of that.
I think it was a "you had to be there" moment. 😛
I love that one, metalheart.
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You realise they only wear them because they sell them in Top Shop? Or because they’ve seen some useless celeb wearing one. Most of them probably don’t even know it’s a band.
And not just Top Shop, I believe Foster Bros sold similar at one time, and also No Fear, instantly removing any semblance of street cool the brand may have previously had.
Girls seem fond of the Ramones tees, possibly because models seem to have picked up on them.
The tees I wish I could still fit into are my old Stiff Records ones, although I loaned my ‘If It Ain’t Stiff It Ain’t Worth A ****’ to my then g/f and never got it back. 🤬
Never did see the Ramones, sadly
Count yourself lucky - easily the worst band I ever saw live, they were so stoned they could barely play...
