Favourite Metal T-Shirts

[Jack the Stripper]

Just came across this and it got me thinking about what are some of your favourite metal/music T-Shirts you owned? https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-13-best-heavy-metal-t-shirts-of-all-time-ranked/

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I don't really collect T-Shirts but I do like the stripped back simplicity of the Never Say Die T-Short as worn by Tony Stark in one o the Iron Man/Avengers films. That's one I do own. And Motorhead always had good Ts!

[Jack the Stripper]

I have an absolute ton of shirts, at least over 50. Most of them don’t fit me at the moment or don’t fit me well. And a lot I’ve never worn either. I’d say about 15 of them are 80’s vintage, I use to have more 80’s ones but some have gone missing over the years. Hoping some of them are at my folks house somewhere.

I’m with you though Kilo, I do prefer the simpler vintage style designs over the loud designs these days.

Can’t go wrong with Motörhead or a vintage style Sabbath design. Some of the favourite old ones I had was the Metallica Damage Inc and Metal Up Your Ass. A really cool Last In Line vintage shirt, Judas Priest Painkiller, and a Megadeth Vic Berlin Wall shirt. I also had this really cool Ozzy one that had all his tattoos printed on it, which I never wore because it was to loud. I noticed the Ozzy online store has recently reissued that for a limited time. I also had The Trooper shirt and back patch on my battle jacket.

The original vintage shirts are worth an absolute stack these day’s, especially if they're tour shirts.

[Vyn]

I would always buy a shirt at a concert if I could. I don't have any of them anymore. I either wore them to pieces, used them as rags because they were stupid (a lot of bar-bands had shirts that looked like someone drew them with crayons) or they just vanished.

I know at least a couple of them were snagged by a gal, one being an AC/DC shirt from when they toured for Back in Black. I liked that one.

I had one from Blue Oyster Cult's Agents of Fortune tour that I wore for years.

Motorhead though, hands down awesome shirts.

[Charger]

I have a gazillion shirts!

But nothing vintage sadly for obvious reasons...

I wear them a lot too.

My biggest shirt collection belongs to Blaze Bayley shirts. I've gotten them with albums and ofcourse always bought one (or two) from shows and I've been to a near dozen of them so obviously there's a few.

I think I bought almost all Heaven & Hell shirts too...part from the album covers.

Then I got some from Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Benedictum, Ripper/Beyond Fear, ofcourse Sabbath including the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath cover which is cool as well as the Reunion cover which also works really well as a t-shirt. Rob Zombie, Anthrax and probably some others I forgot.

The one thing that I regret was that I did not get a DIO shirt from my first DIO show in 2004...it was a big festival and the lines at the merch stand were insane so I didn't bother...and that's my biggest regret.

Also I never got to see Motörhead live so I don't have their shirt either...

I think My absolute favourite is either from Blaze or Heaven & Hell.

[Jack the Stripper]

My regret is not buying enough tour shirts from the 80’s. If they had a tour book I always preferred to buy the tour book as it seemed like a better memento to keep from the show. I’d only buy a tour shirt when there wasn’t a tour book on offer. Wish I had’ve just bought both.

I always buy a tour shirt these days though.

[Zzzptm]

All my old shirts have disintegrated... I did enjoy most Metallica's "Damage, Inc." shirt.