Not A Raw Deal

You know what I like? I like when sellers give great descriptions on their tees. Already today, we’ve seen some TERRIBLE tshirt descriptions. Seller pushinfatweight makes up for all of them. Dude is legit when it comes to describing tees. Best part? His descriptions center around when and where the shirt came. That’s what I like. You know we all go on and on about provenance. This guy gets us.

For instance, this Blacklisted tshirt. Great tshirt. Lots of good details for this one.

Blacklisted is an absolutely fantastic hardcore band from Philadelphia, PA. I bought this shirt from the lead singer of War Hungry, who was selling his shirts to help fund touring, when that band played the Tiger’s Den in Brockton, MA with Cold World and Shere Khan. This was in 2007. This shirt, for anyone who is familiar with the NYHC band RAW DEAL, is a clear rip-off (or, perhaps more fittingly, “tribute”) of that band. It features the same pencil-sketch drawing as the original RAW DEAL shirt, which depicts an action-packed scene of a woolly mammoth (or mastodon, whatever) fighting off an attacking pack of sabretooth tigers. The shirt is gray. Above the illustration are the words “BLACK LISTED” (notice the space between…) in the same font as on the original RAW DEAL shirt. Bid hard.

That’s just great details. Granted, this was never a REAL Raw Deal shirt design, but we’ll let that part slide. The show he is talking about is

March 25, 2006 @ Romans Brockton Mass: LOJ, Cold World, Shere Khan, Meltdown, Downhill Fast

We’ll let his date slide too …

This may have been the first (or one of the first) shows that both Downhill Fast and Meltdown played. Was this the last Shere Khan show? Could have been. Cold World and LOJ killed it. And when I say LOJ killed it, they played great and had kids completely stone faced. No one knew what the fuck to think. So good. The only tidbit this dude failed to mention was how bitterly cold it was. So friggin cold that night. I picked up the Lil Kim “No Tricks in 06” CW tee and the Hoya Bulldog CW tee. Great show.

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