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A feeble attempt to document the endless array of brilliant vintage Iron Maiden t-shirts.
Shirt #10: Iron Maiden World Piece Tour Quebec 1983
Availability: Explore Vintage Maiden Tees on eBay
Tour Dates:
06/09/1983 Flag of Canada Montréal, Quebec, Canada Verdun Auditorium
07/09/1983 Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada Georges Vizina Centre
08/09/1983 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Colisée Pepsi
Approximate value: $150-$300
View the entire series of vintage Iron Maiden t-shirts.
Each week we feature an interesting vintage tee that’s currently on the eBay auction block. Please feel free to link us if you create or discover an auction we might like.
Description: Vintage SUICIDAL TENDENCIES 1989 T-Shirt tour concert
Sold by: stormcrow-vintage
Measurements: 20.5″ pit-to-pit by 25″ in length
What the Seller Says: Vintage S.T. join the army tee from 1989. Broken in perfectly! Soft and thin, faded with distressed prints from years of washings.
What I Say: Suicidal Tendencies management monitors eBay listings for any merchandise listed with their intellectual property rights. If they see something they don’t like, i.e. a bootleg, they have a direct line to eBay and have the listing removed. This is the reason that their vintage tee selection is always so scarce on eBay. The bad news: some vintage bootleg tees are actually pretty cool. The good news: the ones that don’t get the hook have been mulled over by ST upper brass and basically approved by the band as official merchandise.
To view the full auction click here.
Final Price: $36.01
Every two weeks we scour through eBay’s past auctions and report which relics are fetching the big bucks. Even more reasons to raid your granny’s closet.
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I finally managed to get my hands on all the vintage t-shirt books published in the last few years. Truth be told, I would recommend any book that contains photos of vintage tees, even if it was scribed in crayon by a two-year-old child.
Title: Vintage Rock T-Shirts
Meet the author: Johan Kugelberg makes records and cooks dinner; and when he’s not doing that he’s writing books inspired by music. For this book he delves deep into the t-shirt collection of New York’s legendary vintage clothiers, “What Goes Around Comes Around.”
Number of shirts inside: 300+
Rating: 5/5
Meet the holy grail of vintage t-shirt books; and the only one that truly embodies the spirit of rock ‘n roll.
The writing is a lot like lyrics from your favorite tune: sometimes it doesn’t make sense, yet you fully comprehend its meaning, mostly because you’re making up your own.
Just like all the legendary bands featured within, the designers of the book didn’t care about breaking a few rules. At times you’ll be squinting to read text irresponsibly placed over non-contrasting backgrounds or blinded by other busy layouts. It’s no coincidence that reading it will make you feel like you’ve just left a concert: your senses have been jolted, you’ll probably have a slight headache, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Enough about the creativity of the renegade design, what about the t-shirts?” asks you. It’s the best collection of vintage t-shirts I have ever seen. Like me, if you have obsessed about all things vintage t-shirts over the years, you probably think you have seen it all. Think again, Mr. Magoo. This book features shirts that you will likely never see for sale on eBay. There’s only a handful of tees in the book that I have had my hands on. And for the most part, the rest I didn’t even know existed. Before my time? Yeah, that’s my excuse, since all the tees featured are from the ’60s and ’70s. These shirts were born to the pre-mass-produced merchandising era that ran wild in the ’80s.
The sizes of the featured garments are a true indication of their age. Most of the shirts pictured could only be modeled by skinny men, petite women, and even a classroom of children. It was a time when our kids had yet to consume steroid-filled steaks, and we weren’t filling our bellies with too many burgers. A time when our rock stars and their fans were still skinny, which is also made evident by these subjects in the book’s great vintage photography.
Don’t worry, the book itself is very fat – more than 250 pages jam-packed with vintage t-shirt goodness.
I recommend adding this book to your collection, or else stop calling yourself a vintage aficionado.
Additional Vintage T-Shirt Book Reviews.
Wyco Vintage is having a 15% sale on all their merchandise priced over $100. Translation: all their best stuff, over 200 items, are reduced. We featured Wyco on our list of the 20 Best Spots to Buy a Real Vintage T-Shirt, in the band tee category; so if you’re looking for a last minute gift, why not rock somebody’s socks off?
To view all the items on sale, click here.
A feeble attempt to document the endless array of brilliant vintage Iron Maiden t-shirts.
Shirt #9: Iron Maiden Somewhere on Tour 1987 Pyro Crew
Availability: Explore Vintage Maiden Tees on eBay
Pyro Pete: Peter “Pyro Pete” Cappadociaone is a pyrotechnics experts who has set up stage with Gun & Roses, Metallica, KISS, Ozzy Osborne and The Rolling Stones.
Approximate value: $100-$500
Photo courtesy of: stormcrow-vintage
View the entire series of vintage Iron Maiden t-shirts.
