I know someone is going to have a boner for this shirt. I actually used to have this shirt. i bought it at studio 158 in Willimantic, CT. I think probably at an Earth Crisis gig. I didnt really get what the shirt meant then and I still dont now. But at the time it said straight edge on it and it had a sub machine gun so I was sold. Im guessing Guav had a hand in this one. Can you give a run down on the making of this shirt? I eventually traded mine a year or two later for a Madball shirt that I still have to this day. veganpowerufi says this shirt came out in 1998 but there is no way 1998 me would buy it. I think 94/95 me might have though.
Yeah, what gives with this idea? Joke, correct?
Well Earth Crisis is all on the 2nd Amendment tip, unfortunately… dumb shirt.
never understood this shirt either, but there was a whole series of “straight edge means this, is all about that”-shirts in the 90s, some of them where somewhat amusing, most were weird like this one.
on a completely unrelated side note (at least to this post), i figured this needed to be brought to the attention of the ttd personnel as soon as possible: http://joeydabox.weebly.com/metallica-shirts.html
that’s all.
take care.
I made these shirts, it was a joke … I think my motivation was as a backlash against a lot of the ridiculous rumors we’d hear about Syracuse, like anyone nor vegan sXe at a show would get beaten up, or that we brought guns to shows, had shotguns in the pit … Things that simply never happened. It was meant as sarcasm.
And yeah, the seller has his dates set a little too late on both the shirts he’s selling–pretty much everything Cabal printed came out prior to 1997, because I left Syracuse in August 1996, moving to NYC, and that was pretty much the end of the whole shirt printing thing. DJ and McKaig might have continues for a short time afterwards, but not long.
This wasn’t actually a Cabal shirt though, it might even pre-date Cabal … These were just something I printed up a few dozen of for fun and sold at local shows.
Some how Mullet wound up with the screens to this shirt in like 99 and screened up 2-3 which is how I got mine. I wonder if he still has them…
i think the reason i never understood some of the shirtdesigns is, that i always connected the weird ass rumors with the vegan hardline movement, never with the straight edge. the scary people were the hardline mafia with the oily hair no matter if they were straight edge or not.
Except Earth Crisis and the majority of the Syracuse scene were not Hardline … Hardine was a set philosophy which we did not subscribe to. We were just straight edge hardcore kids who were also vegan (although quite vocal about it). Perhaps I’m splitting hairs, since it’s clear that whatever you called us, we’re probably who you’re talking about, but I just want to be clear that we were not Hardline.
What about Dave and the Destroy Babylon crew? They were straight edge AND vocally hardline. Also weren’t the Holocaust kids edge and hardline at the time? Even though Indiana was like the birthplace of U.S. hardline, Syracuse def. became the epicenter due to Conviction Records and Earth Crisis. I miss the early 90’s.