Vintage Concert/Tour T-Shirts!

[megoat]

I recently bought an awesome collection of vintage concert t-shirts from a dude that bought them at shows from the late 70s thru the late 80s--45 shirts total. They are quite collectible these days and, IMO, are just awesome pop culture/rock history artifacts with fantastic artwork and design. Anybody else collect these? Or better yet, anybody have any of these back in the day?

[toysrus]

Nice! Awesome buy! I had that Maiden shirt. I had a different Dio shirt. But those are cool. Somewhere I may still have a few of my Metal concert shirts. You should frame those. I miss the classic 80's Metal days!!

I recently bought an awesome collection of vintage concert t-shirts from a dude that bought them at shows from the late 70s thru the late 80s--45 shirts total. They are quite collectible these days and, IMO, are just awesome pop culture/rock history artifacts with fantastic artwork and design. Anybody else collect these? Or better yet, anybody have any of these back in the day?

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[rche]

looks like my t-shirt drawer circa 1983 or so.
I've still got a bunch of them in a box, tho the blacks are mostly greyish now.

My favorite of all is my Peter Criss shirt from 1979 that my pop got for me in a mall store. I think it was Dillard's. black shirt with red accents on the sleeves and collar with a heat transfer pic of Pete from the solo record. I think it is a size M for boys and would probably fit in a record sized picture frame.

Awesome

[david_b]

Love the Stones ones..!

[Meule]

I see a lot of those every year at the Graspop Metal Meeting here in Belgium

[nvmbrsdoom5]

LOL That's true, Graspop is literally a sea of thousands of new and vintage rock/metal tees!! The merch tent there was dangerous for me, as I wound up spending about 200 euro in a couple of hours there on shirts and cds.

I don't really collect tees, though I have a ton of them, but only a handful of my vintage ones are left. I went through a period of selling the vintage ones on eBay a while back, to pay bills (and, um, buy toys!) There's a few I won't part with because of sentimental reasons, and there's quite a few that are just m.i.a that I have no idea where they disappeared to!

Those Maiden shirts pictured above are definitely worth a few bucks, Maiden collectors are pretty fanatical!

[Rallygirl]

I have a tote tucked away in my basement filled with items from my high school years, including a number of concert tees. I wish all those tees still fit.

[Sideshow Spock]

What, no Culture Club shirt?

I distinctly recall lots of those shirts on the back of many a middle school burnout

Love the Stones dome/dragon one. That was big around here, since I'm near the Carrier Dome and the Stones played two shows there in Nov of '81. Remember lots of kids with it.

[4NDR01D]

Chris, that's one of the best pick up's I've seen you grab. I sold a crappyish condition Van Halen (the one on top) for about $50 3 years ago, I would imagine that one would be closer to $100. The Dio one might go for good money with his recent passing.

I still check the thrift racks all the time for good tee's but have come up empty in recent memory. If I find one that actually fits I'll wear it a bit before selling it, if it doesn't fit at all I prefer to just sell to fans that are going to appriciate it (although I miss my Cramps tee's).

I actually just bought a 1991 Swervedriver tour tee off e-bay the other day. $65 but I had to have it. It was my fave during high school

[Mikey]

I like that Stones American flag tongue one.

Can we get a better picture of it ?

[toys2cool]

very nice, I had a Maiden shirt in my Cobra when it was stolen....I remember when the cop wanna B that they sent over was asking me what else was in the car I yelled out ****!!! he's like what ??what?? I said my Iron Maiden shirt and my Nike sun glasses

[thomasjo_2093]

I had a bunch of them from the early 80's to early 90's. My wife threw them out because she said they did not fit me anymore and some looked faded. Now I am ****ed off all over again. I loved that Maiden shirt, got mine at the Lansing Civic Center, I got the Ozzy shirt at the same place when I saw the Diary tour right before Randy died. Man waht great memories. Really cool buy, and I agree that you get some of them framed.

John

[supes]

Those are great! I had the Stones dragon one.

[BlackKnight]

I've got an Arse load of them from the 90's .
Neat stuff.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I remember everyone wearing many of those back in the day. I still have quite a few of them but they all seam to have shrunk as I have gotten older
i was wearing a Rush t from around 91 the other day and my daughter was asking about it because of the cool artwork and it was tiedie. I still have a bunch but most of them became work shirts and have paint stains all over them.