My friend Daniel Woods (a.k.a. Dantronix) is a Portland-based DJ, archivist, videographer and aspiring filmmaker. Obsessed with all things music, he’s a compulsive networker-cum-collector-type with the knack for plucking gems from the accumulated detritus of mass culture.

Aside from an impressive library of vinyl LPs and DVDs, Woods has also compiled a closet full of vintage band t-shirts, some of which date to the late 70’s and early 80’s. You may have even seen some of them yourself in informative books such as this. Old shirts such as these are often highly coveted and known to fetch princely sums on eBay; from whence Dantronix found them, he won’t say exactly…

We’ll just chalk it up to hard work and good luck digging through the bins at dusty thrift stores.

In any case, two of his better tops have been embedded below:

This tour tee was produced circa 1981-2. The design on front, borrowed from the album’s cover, is obviously faded somewhat, but still visible and soft to the touch.
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…from the FIC crew.

The sound quality here is a little rough, but this is a classic song from a classic artist.

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Still a tad early, I know, but this vid is a cold classic:

Peep out this vintage-lite tee I discovered on eBay:

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By now, most of you have heard about the release of downloaded “Chinese Democracy,” Guns N’ Roses’ (err, Axl Rose’s) long-awaited, much-delayed magnum opus, an event 13 million dollars, 14 studios, 17 years and 30-some backing musicians in the making. Take that, Kevin Shields!

The cool kid critics haven’t been particularly impressed, but John Pareles’ hit-piece-cum-review in the NYT was a funny and amusing cut-up of an admittedly easy and bloated target: 

“[This album] is the Titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie, although like the film it’s a monumental studio production. It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era. It’s also a shipwreck, capsized by pretensions and top-heavy production. In its 14 songs there are glimpses of heartfelt ferocity and despair, along with bursts of remarkable musicianship. But they are overwhelmed by countless layers of studio diddling and a tone of curdled self-pity…”

The CD has been selling well, apparently, but not at an astronomical clip. What actually surprises me the most is the lack of any related merch. The GN’R site is almost completely bare in this regard; the webstore is still listed as “coming soon.” What, like 2025? I figured a tentpole release such as this one would be accompanied by a crush of ancillary products, but one of the few images of a “Chinese Democracy” tee I could find online is embedded below.

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As a celeb, you know you’ve crossed into the cultural elite when… you find yourself swapping recipes — and prefab street slang — with the high priestess of American crafting and party planning.

Remember when Snoop actually rapped (at a highly proficient level)? I don’t either. With any luck, this tee on eBay will jog our respective memories…

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