Vintage 80s T Shirts Comic super heroes, Concerts, WWF etc. selling for thousands of dollars. 2 2

[Robot Man]

Back in the late ‘70’s, I got a Stiff Records T -Shirt. It said “If it ain”t STIFF” on the front and “It ain’t worth a F” on the back. My wife hated it and tried unsuccessfully to get rid of it several times. My rocker, younger daughter found it, wore it to school and got sent home. It disappeared again for good after that…

[FlyingDonut]

When my father moved we found boxes of stuff - in one of them was a box of mine and my brother's concert t-shirts from high school in Illinois, roughly 1980-1988. Maybe 200 of them. My daughter has them and slowly sells them on dePop and other places. I kept a couple but they're only display pieces.

[Dick Pontoon]

The shirts might be gone but the photos live on.

[Dick Pontoon]

[Shazbot]

My sister and her husband have an attic full of unworn concert shirts from every band you can think of and a couple hundred you probably can’t, I’ve always worn mine all the way into the trash.

I did however hold onto my 8th grade denim, still has a few patches and a small handful of surviving pins. The Metal Up Your A@@ patch spent a while thumbtacked to the bedroom wall.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Shazbot

[Shazbot]

On 9/19/2023 at 8:32 AM, Jayman said:

I probably shouldn’t have drank this…

Comes in glass as well.

[troydivision1]

High ended original vintage t-shirts are truly in fashion right now.
Sold some Tank Girl shirts I've had since 1994/95 that were imported from the UK for some good money earlier this year.
(I still have two classics on hand)
I don't sell internationally, but both shirts went to two different customers (both based out of Japan) that used a drop shipment company that I sent to a west coast address that then shipped to them.
Both left positive feedback shortly thereafter.

[El Toro Rojo]

Are there any type of price guides for this or are people just winging it?

 

....not that I have a ton of 80s/90s tour shirts in storage or anything....!!!! ahem

Edited September 20, 2023 by El Toro Rojo

[Jayman]

On 9/20/2023 at 5:09 PM, Shazbot said:

Comes in glass as well.

Ha! I got the Ozzy bobble too!

ROCK ‘N ROLLL!” 

[Jayman]

And so to keep on topic, one I had handy that I still wear…

[TupennyConan]

Purchased from a comic shop on St Mark's NYC summer '90. 

It has yellowed, more so in the armpits. I'll wear it every couple years when drinking with my friends from that era, who recognize the shirt. I haven't washed it in a decade or more.

 

[troydivision1]

These are the only shirts I have kept with me from high school through middle age.
Approximately 10 moves / purges.

1993 Deadline Teenage Fanclub and 1994 Classic Baseball Tee

My next oldest t-shirt is from 2001.
Which I guess qualifies as Vintage as well now...

[Jayman]

Sometime in the mid to late 80’s a bunch of friends and I went to the Fangoria’s Weekend of Horror show at the Jacob Javits Center. I remember I bought some Star Trek Poster books, some Betamax horror videos and this t-shirt. I just looked on eBay and someone is asking this! 

Here’s mine.