Category: Celebrities
Ride Like Lightning
In, A Place Beyond the Pines, Ryan Gosling sports a sleeve-trimmed Metallica Ride The Lightning shirt. The shirt even has subtle story significance with the quote, “If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder” spoken to Gosling’s character by his partner in crime. See it. The film is awesome and the tee is just a little extra eye candy in an otherwise beautifully shot epic. But is the shirt vintage? And is it even a t-shirt? In some scenes, it looks as though it could be a sweatshirt. Whatever the case may be we can rule out it ... Read more
Hey Tosh! You Call That an Overpriced Concert Tee!?
I just caught the season premiere of Tosh.0 where he announced his wardrobe theme for the entire season: Overpriced Concert Tees. Yes! But the Japandroids t-shirt he wore in the episode can be found for $15; so either Tosh is really cheap or he got ripped off at a concert by a bootlegger. Tosh’s torso needs a vintage tee. Our uber-rare $13,000 vintage RUN DMC Adidas tee (below) and the other exorbitantly priced relics for sale in our marketplace definitely fit the bill. If $15 was too rich for his blood – $13k is likely out of the question. So ... Read more
Don’t Talk About Fight Club
Every few weeks we scour through vintage t-shirt sales across the web and report which relics are fetching top dollar. More reasons to raid your grandpa’s closet. 80s vintage Indy 500 seen in Fight Club tee sold for $1750.75 by vintage-rain 80s vintage The Clash Take the 5th t-shirt sold for $461.99 by rsinclai 60s vintage 1967 Nationals Indiana t-shirt sold for $338.33 by clydedudlee 80s vintage Sex Pistols Mosquito Head t-shirt sold for $300.00 PuNKrEviVal 80s vintage TAD t-shirt sold for $300.00 silverruins 80s vintage Nick Cave Bad Seeds t-shirt sold for $296.01 Stormcrow-Vintage View a previous edition where ... Read more
Shit Happens
Guns N Roses‘ Axl Rose in D.I.Y Shit Happens Tee. Slogan courtesy Forrest Gump.
Babes in Vintage Band Tees
Big props to all the ladies above for saying no to repro by teecycling. They’re all sporting genuine vintage band t-shirts – not modern day unnecessarily reproduced tees by trendy brands featured in shopping malls. How do we know? Cuz we’re vintage t-shirt geeks. So tell us, who’s the girl and who’s the group?