A brand spanking new vintage t-shirt book was released today and it looks pretty promising. The author was inspired by the all-too-common nightmare of having his beloved t-shirt collection discarded by his mother. For the last 20+ years he’s been on a mission to relive his youth via poly-cotton, which the better part of was spent growing up too fast all over Sunset Strip. The book offers a visual history told through the rarest of the rare one-off t-shirts.

We’re in the process of acquiring a review copy from the publishers for the fifth installment in our series of vintage t-shirt book reviews. If you’re too excited to wait until the verdict is out, copies are available now through Amazon.

Every few weeks we scour through eBay’s vintage t-shirt auctions and report which relics are fetching top dollar. More reasons to raid your grandpa’s closet.

Click the links below to view the full eBay listing or the seller’s current inventory.

1. 80s vintage Suicidal Tendencies Possessed sold for $500.00 by stormcrow-vintage
2. 80s vintage Black Sabbath/BOC Jersey sold for $300.00 by wyco_vintage
3. 80s vintage Death Scream Bloody Gore t-shirt sold for $250.00 by silverruins
4. 80s vintage Corrosion of Conformity Animosity t sold for $250.00 by wyco_vintage
5. 70s vintage Yardbirds t-shirt sold for $204.02 by koshercollectibles
6. 80s vintage Mercyful Fate Melissa t-shirt sold for $204.00 by christrikk

Can you identify all six frontmen (AND their band) from these close-ups of vintage t-shirt screen prints? Post your guesses in the comments section!

• See if you can name the Heavy Metal Mascots in our last Screen Test.
  

What’s it Worth?

• vendetta discusses a candidate for the holy grail of vintage tees.

For Sale & Trade

• mkkdcck shows off a rare stanley mouse sweatshirt.

Show & Tell

• jimmyj starts a list of vintage t-shirt cameos in movies.

Brands

• hermosavtg shows the darker days of the Screen Stars brand.

…and check out the previous hot forum threads.

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Pssssssssst…that blessed day is fast approaching, so it’s time to get on the case! Nothing honors St. Patrick more than throwing back copious amounts of green beer while your torso topper does a little throwback of its own.

First stop: VintagePimps – especially given they’ve loaded their store with 14 vintage gems (which in beer terms is a 12 pack, plus 2.) Next up is VINTAGE RETRO WEAR who is carrying a smaller selection (one of which is our favorite this year, featured above.)

The bonus with true vintage during this celebration is that you’ll avoid that embarrassing puke-on-your-shirt-and-then-notice-some-other-guy-at-the-bar-is-wearing-the-same-t-shirt…feeling. We’ve all been there.

Remember to search around because sellers are using different keywords to describe their goodies. “St. Patricks” (no apostrophe fetches the best results) to “St. Patrick’s” (where you’re likely to score a better deal in auction format), to “Irish“(which is the broadest search but includes bonus sport related results).

Which ever method you use to track this green gold, avoid those jerks who abuse the “vintage” keyword to describe cheap t-shirts that were printed a week ago.