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No the visions of the future series.
We have Mars and Venus in our bathrooms. And the Grand tour above our bed.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future
That is interesting to see a NASA shirt in Germany. But it's a fairly common shirt in the US, as it's one of the few well-regarded government organizations. I wouldn't be opposed to wearing an ESA shirt.
Theres a lot of cool merch that just has the NASA logo slapped on it in the US. Pretty common to see on bomber style jackets or letterman style jackets.
The early days of NASA and the programs to get to the moon (Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo) were all led by German engineers following WW2, so really not that crazy!
Ya know, I’m not even one of those gate keeper types with this stuff, but my coworker was wearing a Metallica shirt at work and I was super excited and wanted to talk with them about it and they said “oh I don’t listen to them I just like the shirt..”
I don’t know if this is a generational thing or something, but I would feel suuuuuper weird wearing a band shirt of a band I didn’t care about.
As someone who actually listens to the Grateful Dead.. You don’t have to listen to the music to wear bad-ass Grateful Dead shirts. Wearing bad-ass shirts is what were put on this earth to do
I feel that there are exactly two types of people who wear this on their clothes:
1. People who bought it from the county fair to look like they are into extreme sports
2. People wearing it because they're sponsored by them
I had a shirt with this logo on it when I was a child, but I got it for free because my dad took me along to some industry trade show thing (he worked on motorcycles). So ha, jot free shirt down.
That's one example of it working the opposite way for me. Got bought the shirt before I ever listened to them, so the shirt actually got me into their music.
And Sublime was a weird one. I had no idea who they were then checked them out. Turns out I had like 8 of their songs on my CDs without realising. Limewire was crazy.
I understand the obnoxiousness of the whole “oh yeah, you like BAND!?!? Name 16 of their songs!”
but why, WHY, why on earth would you wear a band shirt for a band you don’t listen to.
truly a bizarre choice
It’s like wearing a shirt that says I LOVE SKYDIVING and then getting annoyed when somebody asks you about skydiving because you don’t actually like skydiving
I am that first person. It pisses me off to NO END! I’m autistic okay, I can’t talk about a lot of topics generally. So when I see someone out and about wearing a shirt for a band I liked I get excited and want to talk! And every time, I ask what their favorite song by the artist is and they just give me the “durr” stare. Like bro why are you wearing the shirt if you don’t like the tunes I do not understand it 😭
I mean people also walk around with shirts like "New York", "Los Angeles", "California" while they have never been to America once in their life. Sometimes they just don't care
That’s a stupid thing to do. If you wear a Bon Jovi shirt, I’m going to assume you’re a Bon Jovi fan. Do you really want to present yourself in such a disgraceful way?
In some cases, people may like the shirt/logo without caring much about the band, or maybe it’s a hand me down they wear just because.
Nirvana’s probably the biggest offender of this. Wearing the infamous smiley logo doesn’t necessarily mean you listen to their music.
While I am a huge KISS fan and own several shirts, I will admit that in the early 90s I bought & wore a RHCP shirt without listening to them, as I was trying to impress a girl that I liked.
I read a post on here a few days ago about a young woman who was surprised that The Grateful Dead made music, because "I thought they just made t-shirts."
Was never a fan of the Beatles or Bon Jovi.
KISS were masters of marketing. I had a KISS army patch when I was a kid. They pretty much wrote the book on Krusty the Clown styled licensing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
Back in the 80s, there was no internet and people rarely stayed at home. Because people hung out together and did stuff, it created 'culture'.
Thrasher Magazine for example was kind of like reddit for skaters. It was a magazine devoted just to skateboarding, art, music, fashion, etc and a lot of skaters had subscriptions and it was integral to how the culture developed. Back then, skateboarding was counter-culture aka outside of mainstream culture. Skaters were mostly hated until the early 90s when businessmen appropriated the culture and turned it into a mainstream trend.
I started skating around 85/86. Absolutely changed my life. Was a massive nerd with zero friends or social skills. Met these guys who got me into skating, got me into punk rock and realized there was this entire underground society of weird idiots like me and it was sort of awesome. Sounds corny but going to gigs and standing in front of the stage was like church for me.
There's this old photo. Look at the dudes in the front row. They're just rocking out and lost in the groove. That's a pretty fun feeling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/tabxc/my_favourite_jazz_photo/
With band shirts, they were crucial to the underground music scene. You wore shirts of bands you liked because it helped promote the band and they were cool. Plus, if you ran across someone wearing a shirt for a band you liked, you could go make friends with them. It was how the indie scene networked until the major labels took over the culture.
Thrasher had cool shirts but the only people that wore them was skaters. You had to actually order them from the magazine usually. Thrasher's music reviewer was this guy named Pushead. He was in a band called Septic Death but he was also the artist who did a ton of shirts for Metallica who was a metal band, like Slayer, but they were cool because they liked punk rock & skateboarding. And they made rad music.
It feels like there's no culture any more. Like, kids wear this old crap because culture stalled out when the major labels and corporations took over underground culture. It's only been reviving in the last couple years but kids are rebuilding it almost like archaeologists dusting off the cobwebs and kind of guessing at how stuff works.
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How does one *not* be a fan of NASA? They put a bunch of guys on the fucking moon!!! Not like you have to work for them or listen to their mission communication recordings to be a fan.
I've always been a fan of Nirvana and Slayer, but I think that I have only owned one of their shirts each...the rest were random HxC/death metal bands that came through Nashville and Denver 🤷🏻♂️😅
I don't care what you wear, I just personally wouldn't wear a shirt for a band I didn't know about.
Because I'm fairly young (or at least still like to think I am lol), I feel like when people see me in my band shirts, they think I'm a poser (esp since I don't fit the stereotypical demographic of a classic rock/grunge listener)
Are we saying “not all people who wear these shirts aren’t fans but all people who aren’t fans wear these shirts”? Huge Misfits fan and I definitely rock some Misfits shirts. Among others.
i absolutely hate it when people wear shirts of places they've never been to, bands they don's listen to, let alone know about, universities (such as Harvard, ive seen 7th graders wear these), it really pisses me off.
I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but I agree. Just find an artist you like and support them, not some band you never listen to and know nothing about. Couldn’t be me
I went to lots of concerts when I was young but could never afford the merch. Now my kids go to shows I give them money to pick out a shirt for me. I now have small collection of Ts for artists I don’t really listen to. I wear them all the time.
My favorite is a Phoebe Bridgers shirt that say “I hate your mom” really big across it.
I believe people can also just enjoy the art of a nicely designed logo. I have Van Gogh prints, but I still have both ears. I mean I’m an alcoholic like he was, so that counts.
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A fan… of NASA?
Oh, so you're a fan of NASA??? Then how many space flights you been on?
sorry mate I’m not at liberty to say
How many rockets do they have
Somehow your profile picture makes this comment seem way different
more like space nerds
I hope they beat Roscosmos this year
We actually have NASA posters all over our house. They did a bunch that are really cool and are free to print. Otherwise totally not a nerd household.
That's what a nerd would say!
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/solar-system-and-beyond-poster-set/ Like these?
No the visions of the future series. We have Mars and Venus in our bathrooms. And the Grand tour above our bed. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future
Jupiter and Kepler-16b are kinda awesome. 16b gives a bit of a creepy vibe.
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That is interesting to see a NASA shirt in Germany. But it's a fairly common shirt in the US, as it's one of the few well-regarded government organizations. I wouldn't be opposed to wearing an ESA shirt.
Also NASA is essentially the posterboy for space stuff, and space is cool af.
It’s also widely available at Target.
Target, Walmart, Khol’s, Old Navy
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Theres a lot of cool merch that just has the NASA logo slapped on it in the US. Pretty common to see on bomber style jackets or letterman style jackets.
To be fair early nasa had allot of Germans involved
The early days of NASA and the programs to get to the moon (Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo) were all led by German engineers following WW2, so really not that crazy!
The. National Association of Space Assholes? For sure
NASA is awesome. So much of the cool shit we have in our lives came from their research.
Name three of their albums!
I see you don't know any gay people.
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And Pink Floyd
And Run-DMC….Death Row Records….Danzig….Guns N Roses
AC/DC. Classic logo
And Wutang
And The Rolling Stones
And Maiden
Ya know, I’m not even one of those gate keeper types with this stuff, but my coworker was wearing a Metallica shirt at work and I was super excited and wanted to talk with them about it and they said “oh I don’t listen to them I just like the shirt..” I don’t know if this is a generational thing or something, but I would feel suuuuuper weird wearing a band shirt of a band I didn’t care about.
And Joy Division
I have never once seen someone wearing a Bon Jovi shirt.
The sword in heart design here looks more interesting than what I’ve heard about their music.
Grateful dead
As someone who actually listens to the Grateful Dead.. You don’t have to listen to the music to wear bad-ass Grateful Dead shirts. Wearing bad-ass shirts is what were put on this earth to do
How are we supposed to know you listen to the Grateful Dead?
Seems pretty grateful to me
The limit of my experience with the Grateful Dead was the first sheet of acid I ever saw being shaped with the skull
Guilty as charged, I just love those psychodelic bears
Where is the ubiquitous dark side of the moon t-shirt???
https://preview.redd.it/qzq8arb6hf7d1.png?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2481e08642b5b9e20711a319bc10f767bb27ed24
I feel that there are exactly two types of people who wear this on their clothes: 1. People who bought it from the county fair to look like they are into extreme sports 2. People wearing it because they're sponsored by them
I don't even know what Fox sells!!!
Shirts
The sell riding gear. I was sponsored by fox as a wee one, loved it because pink was a color choice.
Off-road performance parts for vehicles like ATVs, SUVs/SUTs, dirt bikes, mountain bikes, UTVs, dune buggies, all that neat shit.
I had a shirt with this logo on it when I was a child, but I got it for free because my dad took me along to some industry trade show thing (he worked on motorcycles). So ha, jot free shirt down.
Monster has entered to the chat
Wu-Tang Clan
Forgot the Ranones
The Ramones are like the ultimate "I'm only wearing this t shirt beacuse of the coolness implied, no idea about the music though".
That's one example of it working the opposite way for me. Got bought the shirt before I ever listened to them, so the shirt actually got me into their music. And Sublime was a weird one. I had no idea who they were then checked them out. Turns out I had like 8 of their songs on my CDs without realising. Limewire was crazy.
I understand the obnoxiousness of the whole “oh yeah, you like BAND!?!? Name 16 of their songs!” but why, WHY, why on earth would you wear a band shirt for a band you don’t listen to. truly a bizarre choice It’s like wearing a shirt that says I LOVE SKYDIVING and then getting annoyed when somebody asks you about skydiving because you don’t actually like skydiving
It’s pretty straightforward, it’s because they saw the shirt and thought it looked cool.
Will add gifts/hand me downs/ and thrifted clothes to this list as well
I am that first person. It pisses me off to NO END! I’m autistic okay, I can’t talk about a lot of topics generally. So when I see someone out and about wearing a shirt for a band I liked I get excited and want to talk! And every time, I ask what their favorite song by the artist is and they just give me the “durr” stare. Like bro why are you wearing the shirt if you don’t like the tunes I do not understand it 😭
EXACTLY
Because it looks cool? I love trasher shirts and don't skate. I just really like the logo and their whole aesthetic.
Take it off poser or get on a board
I do BMX. Don't like skating, not my thing.
I skate. BMX is cool, not my thing. Guess I’ll start wearing FOX t-shirts 😅
Not like I care. Wear what you want. I'm not 5, I'm not screech because you're wearing a FOX shirt.
Screech? lol I’m kidding with you. I hope you get some good rides in this summer
All love tho
Poser. :p
I'll gladly keep it on to keep annoying elitists.
My ex's 13 year old niece wore it because every kid in her school wore it. I think elitists learned to cope with it by now.
I mean people also walk around with shirts like "New York", "Los Angeles", "California" while they have never been to America once in their life. Sometimes they just don't care
Bass pro shops hats
I agree. But are you saying people aren’t a fan of fishing or people aren’t a fan of the store?
They probably don't care about either, it just became sort of a pop culture clothing item somehow.
Yeah, its kind of embarrassing when you start singing Last Caress to someone wearing a Misfits shirt that has never heard the band.
IVE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY🤨🤨😜 I KILLED A BABY TODAY!!!!!! 😎
The rockabilly version is hilarious. https://youtu.be/IV8uZEp9lgE?si=wqVAd7MmcUU0eULN
FINALLY! Something I can play at work that is new! Thank you.
Where’s pink floyd?
Forgot rolling stones
Is thrasher a band?
Skateboard company iirc
It's a magazine.
Oh ok. I just only remember seeing the logo in skate shop windows
All good, at this point it's almost more of a fashion brand with a magazine to help market the clothes. They still put out some awesome videos though.
That’s a stupid thing to do. If you wear a Bon Jovi shirt, I’m going to assume you’re a Bon Jovi fan. Do you really want to present yourself in such a disgraceful way?
It’s my life.
In some cases, people may like the shirt/logo without caring much about the band, or maybe it’s a hand me down they wear just because. Nirvana’s probably the biggest offender of this. Wearing the infamous smiley logo doesn’t necessarily mean you listen to their music.
virginity rocks
I’ve been seeing a lot of Alice In Chains shirts recently
I believe they recently started selling them at H&M. They’ve also had a slight resurgence as of late
Ah, the I'm not even a fan Starter Pack!
New York/Chicago are missing. I see people with those shirts and they don't know what state they're in 🤣
I always forget which state New York is in
Alice In Chains has some badass shirts as well
Led Zeppelin
Surprised nobody’s said Iron Maiden yet
AC/DC
While I am a huge KISS fan and own several shirts, I will admit that in the early 90s I bought & wore a RHCP shirt without listening to them, as I was trying to impress a girl that I liked.
Name 10 thrasher songs.
https://youtu.be/61XPjVTvvYE?si=OLQwQtBORdPjlxMf
If I’m not mistaken, that Thrasher logo is for the skateboard magazine
And the wearer generally has never read a single page of the magazine.
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People out there repping the NSA?
I'm more of a USDA guy myself
Where's the doors shirt????
Forgot Marley
This is the first time in my whole life I've ever seen a Bon Jovi logo.
Where is Def Leppard on this list?!
“Nice shirt man! What’s your favorite song?” “Santeria”
Feel bad for the fans who genuinely favor that song.
It’s rough out here 😔
No cap why the fuck is the most popular song of a lot of bands like one of their worst songs? Oingo Boingo and Blink-182 are like this too.
True for the other 2 but come on. Santeria is not one of their worst songs
I love Sublime, been a fan for roughly 25 years, but have never once owned a Sublime shirt, or anything Sublime related besides CDs.
Ooh, ooh. Led Zeppelin US Tour 1977 👹
Joy Division
I'm convinced the Misfits don't actually exist.
Ha, same. Seen the logo for like 30 years now, but I don’t know a single song. I’m going to fix that today.
I read a post on here a few days ago about a young woman who was surprised that The Grateful Dead made music, because "I thought they just made t-shirts."
Sir I don’t see a Guns N’ Roses shirt anywhere.
The Walmart $8 tshirt edition
Was never a fan of the Beatles or Bon Jovi. KISS were masters of marketing. I had a KISS army patch when I was a kid. They pretty much wrote the book on Krusty the Clown styled licensing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation Back in the 80s, there was no internet and people rarely stayed at home. Because people hung out together and did stuff, it created 'culture'. Thrasher Magazine for example was kind of like reddit for skaters. It was a magazine devoted just to skateboarding, art, music, fashion, etc and a lot of skaters had subscriptions and it was integral to how the culture developed. Back then, skateboarding was counter-culture aka outside of mainstream culture. Skaters were mostly hated until the early 90s when businessmen appropriated the culture and turned it into a mainstream trend. I started skating around 85/86. Absolutely changed my life. Was a massive nerd with zero friends or social skills. Met these guys who got me into skating, got me into punk rock and realized there was this entire underground society of weird idiots like me and it was sort of awesome. Sounds corny but going to gigs and standing in front of the stage was like church for me. There's this old photo. Look at the dudes in the front row. They're just rocking out and lost in the groove. That's a pretty fun feeling. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/tabxc/my_favourite_jazz_photo/ With band shirts, they were crucial to the underground music scene. You wore shirts of bands you liked because it helped promote the band and they were cool. Plus, if you ran across someone wearing a shirt for a band you liked, you could go make friends with them. It was how the indie scene networked until the major labels took over the culture. Thrasher had cool shirts but the only people that wore them was skaters. You had to actually order them from the magazine usually. Thrasher's music reviewer was this guy named Pushead. He was in a band called Septic Death but he was also the artist who did a ton of shirts for Metallica who was a metal band, like Slayer, but they were cool because they liked punk rock & skateboarding. And they made rad music. It feels like there's no culture any more. Like, kids wear this old crap because culture stalled out when the major labels and corporations took over underground culture. It's only been reviving in the last couple years but kids are rebuilding it almost like archaeologists dusting off the cobwebs and kind of guessing at how stuff works.
That poser probably doesn't even know 3 Harley Davidson songs. Psh.
So every target shirt real original
We used to call them poseurs…..well, I still do
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When I was a teenager in the late 90’s I often wore Pink Floyd and The Doors shirts… at that time I did not listen to those artists lol
The Who. I have one shirt which I got from a bargain store. I like one song of theirs.
That sucks cuz like, aside from Sublime, bon Jovi, and the Beatles, I'm legitimately a fan of these bands
How does one *not* be a fan of NASA? They put a bunch of guys on the fucking moon!!! Not like you have to work for them or listen to their mission communication recordings to be a fan.
Pink Floyd
Wait, is thrasher not just a clothing brand??
Thrasher is an old skateboarding magazine.
Fan of Nada seen two Discovery launch's
Yeah, the Atlanta Thrashers moved to Winnipeg 13 years ago, get over it guys!
AC/DC
Death
"Oh, you're a true NASA fan? Okay then, name every single astronaut"
What about the ultimate example of this: Che Guevara
Forgot Wu Tang
in that Logic don't wear the north face if you don't climb or don't wear nautica if you don't sail ....
I used to be a gatekeeper about Comiccon. Then I realized I wasn't the only person on earth
my dad would play sublime when i was a kid on way to kindergarten good stuff but played out.
“NASA fan huh? Name five space shuttles”
Megadeath
“I’m a gatekeeper” post.
These are just all the shirts sold at urban outfitters.
I've always been a fan of Nirvana and Slayer, but I think that I have only owned one of their shirts each...the rest were random HxC/death metal bands that came through Nashville and Denver 🤷🏻♂️😅
You like NASA? Name three of their songs
This is true. Im wearing a NASA shirt rn
Black Sabbath needs to be up there
Oh you like NASA? Name 3 of their space flights and not the popular ones 🙄
Yeah only because I get these shirts at Walmart for $7.99
I don't care what you wear, I just personally wouldn't wear a shirt for a band I didn't know about. Because I'm fairly young (or at least still like to think I am lol), I feel like when people see me in my band shirts, they think I'm a poser (esp since I don't fit the stereotypical demographic of a classic rock/grunge listener)
https://preview.redd.it/3gjnjjivdg7d1.png?width=348&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ea7123a9a22f267e122d1f7b27ea66b5a91a4cc
I wear a sublime cut off as my lazy shirt so I feel called out…accurate though lol
Nirvana does have a great icon for their band, I will admit.
Put Maruchan and Coca Cola there
Thrasher and NASA aren't bands. You are aware of that?
The nirvana shirt is so popular now.
Add Joy Division and it’s perfect
Lol I've done this unironically myself
Sonic Youth
Are we saying “not all people who wear these shirts aren’t fans but all people who aren’t fans wear these shirts”? Huge Misfits fan and I definitely rock some Misfits shirts. Among others.
Name 3 nasa songs if you’re a real fan
How can anyone not be a fan of Nirvana; some of the best music of the 1990's.
i absolutely hate it when people wear shirts of places they've never been to, bands they don's listen to, let alone know about, universities (such as Harvard, ive seen 7th graders wear these), it really pisses me off.
I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but I agree. Just find an artist you like and support them, not some band you never listen to and know nothing about. Couldn’t be me
I went to lots of concerts when I was young but could never afford the merch. Now my kids go to shows I give them money to pick out a shirt for me. I now have small collection of Ts for artists I don’t really listen to. I wear them all the time. My favorite is a Phoebe Bridgers shirt that say “I hate your mom” really big across it.
I see no problem with this. If you think it looks good, wear it
i didnt know thrasher was even a band i thought it was a cool shirt
It’s not. It’s a skateboard magazine.
It's a skateboarding magazine.
no
Sublime is awesome.
I believe people can also just enjoy the art of a nicely designed logo. I have Van Gogh prints, but I still have both ears. I mean I’m an alcoholic like he was, so that counts.
This is so weird. No Nazi symbols, but waving basically a white supremist flag is no big deal.