Jim C is a long time friend of ours who also plays guitar in soul control. rihc_auctions sells his own stuff and the stuff from fellow RI core dudes with no time on their hands.

1. How did you get started in the punk/ hardcore scene?

took the wrong bus on a high school field trip and sat with some dudes I didn’t know. we hit it off and continued to hang after that trip and they were into bands like pantera and rollins and stuff. couple of them were into some hardcore bands and they’d go to shows here and there. eventually i went with them to a sam black church/black train jack show and I thought it was the best thing ever. the next week we went and saw madball at club babyhead and that got me totally hooked. after that i went to as many shows as i could get to.

2. How did you amass all these amazing tees?

bought em all at gigs. i’ve never been much of an online purchaser of shirts. i’m also selling a lot of shirts for tom z and eric from verse, who knows where they got theirs.

3. What’s the strongest memory attached to one of these shirts (like a great show, or a funny merch table discussion)?

i actually told this story in one of the AF auctions I have up now, i’ll cut and paste: agnostic front jersey from 1996. this was bought on the reunion tour in 96 at the mid east in boston. also on the bill were 454 big block and 25 ta life. this was one of the scariest shows I ever attended. the pit during AF that day was ruled by Minus, former singer of merauder. no lie, he was moshing in nothing but a pair of tighty whiteys. he was murdering people. life WAS pain for a lot of dudes that night. also during the set, boston mike (rip) was perched on a railing just staring at the pit with a look on his face that words cannot describe. he then started jumping up and down on the railing in anticipation of a mosh part, bending the railing, and proceeded to leap from the railing and clear out at least 45 dudes from the pit. the rest of the set was him and minus just controlling the pit while AF ripped through an awesome set. after the set I bought this jersey from AF and a hatebreed under the knife demo from rick ta life.