Category: Tees

Tim Burtons blockbuster hit “Batman” turns 35 years old this month so we are celebrating by taking a look at the highest selling vintage Batman tees over the last 3 years on eBay! Some ground rules before we get into the list: I don’t personally authenticate these t-shirts, nor does Defunkd. I do my best to confirm the transaction is real, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t shill bid or returned. If a sale looks too fishy, I leave it off the list. These are eBay sales only since we have tools to verify the sale price. Private sales ... Read more

We rounded up all of the tag date guides created by Defunkd writer Brad S. aka spelloutdye, and put them all in one convenient place. We also recently added in a handful that were created by Nostalgiasaurus, that are welcome additions! If you have one to contribute, please get in touch with us. Click on any of these links to jump to your desired tag: Alstyle – Anvil – Ched – Delta – Fruit of the Loom – Giant – Gildan – Hanes – Jerzees – Oneita – Screen Stars – Signal – Sportswear – Stedman and Hi Cru – ... Read more

In fourth grade I had a babysitter named Kelly who would pick me up from school in her maroon cargo van without any back seats. She was probably nineteen or twenty then. She took me and my brother to Baker’s Square once but mainly brought me home from school and waited around until one of my parents got home from work. Kelly had a boyfriend named Jeff, who was six or seven years older than her, by my estimate. He liked the band Danzig but otherwise seemed like a loser. Jeff accompanied Kelly to pick me up more than once, ... Read more

If memory serves correct, the first concert I went to without parental supervision was a Suicide Machines show at the Metro in Chicago in 1997. Some friends and I took the Green Line from Harlem/Lake in Oak Park down to the Loop, transferred to the Red Line, rode it up to the Addison stop, walked past Wrigley Field, and found ourselves at the doors of adolescence. Thirteen years old with a pack of Newports that a homeless fellow purchased for me, a long chain wallet hanging off a pair of gaberdine slacks, and my brother’s brown Chuck Taylors, I was ... Read more

If sexy teen vampire films are a genre, then The Lost Boys might be the grandfather of all of them. Joel Schumacher combined 80s surf culture, sexy vampires, Jim Morrison, and a fictitious costal town based on Santa Cruz to create an 80s classic. Enlisting the help of Wardrobe director Susan Becker they made iconic looks for the central vampires and created an 80s Neverland-like costal town full of skateboards and tight spandex. Susan had this to say about the film: “My view of this film and story from the very start was that these kids were like homeless kids… ... Read more