Category: Shirts

Vintage 1979 Led Zeppelin T-Shirt Fetches $10,000

A few days ago the crew over at Stormcrow-Vintage was delighted to find their flagship t-shirt sold via eBay for [Begin Robin Leach Accent] a cool $10k. Arguably the rarest Zeppelin t-shirt in the world given it was used as a backstage pass for one of two concerts Zeppelin played at Knebworth House. It was printed in very limited quantities and only those privileged enough to be backstage and in the company of the band were given one of these relics. Stormcrow acquired the t-shirt directly from the family who screen printed the t-shirts for the event back in 1979. ... Read more

Don’t You Want Me: 20+ Rare Vintage New Wave T-Shirts From the 1980s

Electronic sounds. Synthesizers. Avant-garde fashion. Bizarre hairstyles. And music videos that made absolutely no sense. New Wave in the 1980s was the best. Here are 20+ vintage t-shirts to celebrate this unique sound. Vintage Soft Cell Memorabilia T-Shirt Fact: Despite being a nightclub anthem Soft Cell’s Memorabilia 12″ release was a commercial flop. Phonogram Records opted to give the band a final chance to score a hit with a second single. The synth-duo decided to re-work an obscure track titled Tainted Love released by Gloria Jones in 1964. Jones would later become known as a member of T-Rex, Marc Bolan’s girlfriend, and ... Read more

skippy haha

Remember this Vintage Vantage My Adidas RUN DMC t-shirt? Outrageously priced at $13,000 it made headlines as the world’s most expensive t-shirt. I started salivating over it just before Defunkd launched in 2004 and always wondered if someone would ever be crazy enough to buy it. I also subconscious thought “if these guys are selling shirts for $13k, I’m going to be a very wealthy man!” Ha. I kept an eye on it over the years and it never sold – so when VV dissolved I wondered what became of it and the rest of their true vintage goodies. After ... Read more

Going Once, Going Twice, Going Broke

Every few weeks we scour through eBay’s vintage t-shirt auctions and report which relics are fetching top dollar. More reasons to raid your grandpa’s closet. Click the links below to view the full eBay listing or the seller’s current inventory. 70s vintage Bad Company Co tour t-shirt sold for $300.00 by wyco_vintage 80s vintage SAMHAIN Scarecrow t-shirt sold for $299.00 by blackrebelvintage 70s vintage David Bowie world tour tee sold for $224.00 by stormcrow-vintage 80s vintage John Lennon memorial t-shirt sold for $200.00 by wyco_vintage 70s vintage The Who t-shirt sold for $199.00 by concertwear 80s vintage Subhumans Rats t-shirt ... Read more

An Open Letter to Stitcht.com

Remember a couple of years ago we reported on the senseless butchering of vintage tees so their parts could be being transformed in to bed quilts? If you check out the comments section I mentioned contacting the company with a proposal, an email I completely forgot I even wrote until just now. Well, patience is a virtue and my work is done here. If only saving dolphins in Japan was this easy. On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Jimmy J Wrote Hello there. My name is Jimmy J and I speak on behalf of a small portion of the ... Read more