I’ve always heard that it isn’t cool to wear a band’s t shirt to a concert put on by that band is not cool, but I’ve never really heard the explaination of why. Is it seen as an attempt to be “a bigger fan than thou?” Is it just considered too obvious?
Also, last night I went to a Led Zepagain concert, a Led Zeppelin tribute band(great show BTW), and I noticed a lot of people in Led Zeppelin t-shirts. Would this violate the rule? I mean, whatever explanation there is for not wearng a band’s shirt to their concert surely applies to wearing a bands shirt to a tribute band. I saw a few Led Zeppagain t-shirtsm which I thought waas pretty cool, because it’s just kind of out there to have a t-shirt of a cover band.
It would be cool to wear a a Led Zepagain Tshirt to a Led Zeppelin concert (talkin theory here); it would NOT be cool to wear a Led Zeppelin Tshirt to a Led Zepagain concert. That would be gay.
I’ve never heard that, nor would I care. If a person is going to think less of me because of what I’m wearing, there opinion ceases to be important to me.
If you’re going to wear the band’s T-shirt to the concert, it should be one that you bought 10 years ago when the band was a little-known opening act. It shows you were a fan way back when.
No gay person would ever wear a Led Zepplin t-shirt to a Led Zepplin concert. Undoubtedly you meant “stupid” or “uncool” and your fat little fingers accidentally typed out “gay” instead.
Enthusiasm is lame. To be cool, you must always look like you would rather be somewhere else. Wearing a White Stripes Tshirt to a White Stripes concert is barely a step away from going to a Tori Amos concert with a Tori Amos Tshirt, buttons, hat, tote bag, and travel mug in tow. Ultimately, what’s the difference between someone wearing a Death Cab for Cutie Tshirt to a Death Cab for Cutie show, and a football fan painting his naked torso blue? It’s only a matter of degree. MUCH cooler to paint your torso blue for a Death Cab for Cutie concert.
Probably should’ve footnoted that I was adopting the tone and vocabulary of someone to whom such issues would be important. Maybe, should’ve put it in quotes and bylined it “Hipster Boy” or something
Shouldn’t you have included a smiley? I mean, you can’t be serious?
For the record, I almost never use smileys. Except, well, sometimes ironically. Do you need smileys when you’re reading the newspaper, or a book?
Seriously, sorry for the hijack, but the overdependence on smileys have created some kind of bizarro world where things are assumed to be serious unless accompanied by a smiley.
If I can’t a funny across on its own merits, then I’ve failed in my attempt. (Which is clearly a given in this thread; I’m just sayin, in general.)
[I’m gonna back out of this hijack now; sorry Taber. I may, however, pop into a “Smileys mandatory?” thread if such a thing pops up in GD or something.]
No gay person would ever spell Led Zeppelin correctly. Undoubtedly your elegant, sensual, finely chiselled digits knew this independent of your conscious mind.
