The Black Flag shirt that rockawayrecordsis selling might be my favorite design from them…
The blue shirt, the orange trim, the AOQ predating bomb blast (drawn by Pettibon of course)… everything about this really clicks for me. Pretty much every other shirt they ever did was either a record cover slapped on a shirt or just the bars logo, but since the 1986 tour shirts draw from the In My Head cover, which was multiple small Pettibon drawings, the shirts from that tour feel fresh. Maybe it’s just me. Plus there’s the fact that they’ve never been reprinted and booted ad nauseum, so whenever one pops up, it’s like seeing it again for the first time.
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