I’ll wear a tee shirt the day I get it- I usually don’t bring purses or backpacks to shows and I’ve got to put the shirt somewhere.
As for buying tee-shirts, I’ll sometimes pick one up to give a local band I like some extra income. Some of the bands I listen to put lot of effort in to their tee shirts and have pretty cool products.
No. I don’t want to be “that guy.” (Although, I couldn’t really be “that guy” as I have boobs… but my point still stands!).
I went to a Toby Keith concert a few weeks ago (…yeah, yeah. Shoosh. I like that one song… shoosh) and I sat next to “that guy.” Oh lord was he THAT guy. He had on the concert shirt for this tour, but not from this show. See, he had gone to 8 other nights of the “Big Throw Down 2 Tour.” … Yeah.
Now, I could MAYBE see wearing the shirt from the last tour (you’d still be “that guy,” but hey- you gotta get that mileage outta the shirt). But seriously, wearing the shirt for THIS tour but a different show because you’ve been stalking Toby Keith for two months?
I’ve been to a lot of concerts and never bought the artist’s paraphernalia.
It’s nice to have something to remember the concert by. I only go to one concert a year if that, so twenty bucks for a shirt isn’t going to break me. I don’t pay any more than that, though, and if all the shirts are hideous I won’t get them either. I hate shirts that have a big honkin’ picture of the band on them, for instance (esp since the heads of the band members will always lie right where my boobs are, which looks a little gross to me). But I have a shirt from the Pixies tour that just has a radiator on it, all minimalist, and it’s one of the best shirts in my collection.
Yeah I was gonna say that too.
Gets in line behind Dignan, while wearing an SDMB '04 T-shirt
…What?
Especially when it’s cold, I bet.
Every year in September there’s a big outdoor concert in Times Square called “Broadway on Broadway.” I always buy the $10 T-shirt and wear last year’s at this year’s concert. And everyone thinks it’s cool.
I think the T-shirt I have from the September 9, 2001 concert is the coolest thing I own.
Yes. In all my concert-going years, I don’t think I bought more than 4 or 5 shirts, and I think I only have two left. Still have both my '80’s Warren Zevon Smoking Skull shirt, and my Springsteen from the '78 Red Rocks concert.
What really kills me is seeing these 20-somethings in their retro/fake Urban Outfitters concert t-shirts. A young coworker strolled by with a Rolling Stones 1972 shirt; she wasn’t even a twinkle in her daddy’s eye when I went to that particular concert. 
Shirts are definitely over-priced these days.
My bigger pet-peeve is when people insist on sitting in their cars before the concert, blasting music of the band they (and I) am about to see. Hell, even if it’s my favorite band, I can get worn out by hearing the music repetitively, and I don’t want to hear one note of them for days before a show.
Maybe I’m the odd-one out?
I only wear the shirt because I’m forgetful. I will set it down somewhere and lose it. I’m also forgetful enough that I will leave the venue and be halfway home before I remember that I wanted to buy a shirt.
Yeah, that used to be my brother outside the Spectrum in the mid to late 1970’s, selling bootleg shirts. Dicey work. Eventually, the L&I ( Licensing and Inspection ) men caught up with him and his nefarious pals. They didn’t arrest him, but they confiscated hundreds of J. Geils Band shirts. That night, Love did indeed Stink. The bootleg shirts were typically very crappy quality, silkscreen-wise. I’m glad your has endured many washings.
That was it for him, he got his warning. Besides, it was usually a net zero endeavor. They’d all score like $ 50-100 in profits and buy pot with it. Fools.
Man I miss the Spectrum. I saw The Commodores with Earth, Winde & Fire there once. Incredible…
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I listened to Garbage on the way to a recent Garbage concert. But then, it was one of their newer albums, and I thought I might like the concert better if I actually recognized more of the music. (Evidently, I’m not much of a fan or I’d know all their songs already) But I didn’t sit in the parking lot blasting their music or anything.
I saw folks there wearing the shirts. I assumed they were wearing them to avoid having to carry them; I avoided getting the opening band’s CDs until after the show because I didn’t want to hold on to them. Besides, I’d have put someone’s eye out with a jewel case.
I don’t really see a problem with wearing a band’s t-shirt to that band’s concert. But I’m more of a mind to wear something else. If I’m seeing a band, everyone can pretty much assume that I’m into that band, so I’ll wear something pointing to some other area of interest. But then, that’s so calculated that it’s hard to imagine that being considered cool either.
Slightly off-topic, but anyone who’s been to a KISS concert in recent years has seen hundreds of fans dressed in full costume and makeup.
Damn you. I came into this thread to post that. 
Robin, who never wore her Styx shirt at the Styx concert.
I think we can all agree that this is an exception.
How many indie bands have you seen selling t-shirts for $60? And even if they did, at least THEY need the money…I highly doubt Eric Clapton needs the extra $60.
I have a nice collection of souviners from the concerts I’ve been to. They’re called TICKET STUBS. You know, those things you PAID for to see the band?
As long as we’re talking concert peeves, lets bring up people who go to concerts and boo the band because they’re trying to promote their new album. At that same Clapton concert, I sat in front of some guys who kept screaming for COCAINE!! the entire show (don’t know if they meant the song or the drug) and after his third new song off of Reptile, they started talking very loudly about how they didn’t come to the show to hear his new crap, and they were ready to leave and demand their money back. So artists aren’t ever allowed to write and perform new songs? They’re just expected to play the same songs over and over again, year after year?
I did too, but would also like to thank Dewey for reminding me where that quote came from. Who knew there were so many PCU fans out there? 
I remembered the quote, but not the movie, so I had to search the IMDB to remind myself.
Oh yeah… those 8.5" x 11" pages with the barcode you print out at home with the ad for mortgage rates in the corner! I know those!
Well serves you right for using ticketmaster!