by nick » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:49 pm
Band merch is interesting to me not only because my daily outfit was a band tee + American Apparel hoodie, but because it also follows trends in a way fashion does. The kids who are wearing merch with serif font and black and white photographs, would have been wearing those ooze-and-monsters t-shirts of 2008. I'm mostly talking about -core/'scene' type bands, which of course need to follow the trends of the teens to get that merch $$$ so they can stay afloat.
Out of all of the band merch I've ever owned, this The Mars Volta track jacket (purchased during their tour in support of "The Bedlam in Goliath') is definitely the item closest to me: