My favorite Craig Mack story is about shirts, of course. This is either hearsay or something I may have read in a zine somewhere. It could also be a rumor that was passed down from one shirt nerd to the next … At some point, his older brother was getting out of the core, and some of his friends were headed out too. So they gave Craig a FEW trash bags full of tshirts. And not just some crap. Nah, these kids had been attending Anthrax shows during the peak. So he ended up getting this bag full of GEMS. Wishingwell, Schism, Chain Of Strength, Bold, … some real mind blowing stuff. Just crazy stuff. Maybe even a GB Better Than You tee … Can you imagine? I can’t. I wasn’t around during that time. I just found a shirt I wore the hell out of and it was a Bon Jovi autographed tour 89 tee. Yeah, and back then, it was real big on me. Sigh. One look that’ll never go out of style? The Smorgasbord Straight Edge look. Peep this great Follow Through hood from icegrillz05. Serious gem.
CTxHC. #SWAG!
Knowing Craig’s brother I don’t think that happened as his brother wasn’t really an anthrax/core dude (afaik )
It def could have been a friend of a friend or some other new milford area core dude maybe crucial (aka Craig Callarusso who put out wide awake live ‘7) or Ted Nelson or something….
I think this was mine… I sold a bunch of shirts out of the boot of my car outside a STICK TOGETHER show in Philadelphia this past summer. Hoodrack had been texting me non-stop to bring my old shirts to this gig so he could buy them. Word spread like wild fire and I soon had 20 kids foaming at the mouth, waiting to get their hands on my wares.
If this hood wasn’t so small I wouldn’t have sold it. I also sold 2 other Follow Through shirts that day. The T-shirt version of this, and another one that said DRUG FREE YOUTH on the back or something.
Da 90’s.