Defunkd

[lord ched]

Mozart was so lazy, he forgot to finish a symphony. Buddy Cooper has more stick-to-it-ive-ness, and is thus the greater genius.

[Frank]

those Buddy Cooper shirts are INNNNNNCREDIBLE!

I love those movie shirts that time forgot, keep them coming!

[lord ched]

On a completely different end of the cinematic scale... a 1988 Soviet Cinema retrospective, from back when the Toronto fest was still called the Festival of Festivals. Pretty slammin' design, if I may say so.

So many of my fave obscure T's were from my fat period and were ditched when I dropped 40 pounds. I had the Virginia Madsen vehicle Fire with Fire, the b-horror Black Roses (which was shot at my high school), Laws of Gravity with a pre-Sopranos Edie Falco, and, in a one-two punch of arthouse cult cool, Caro Diario and Hard Core Logo. Wish I still had all those to share.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

My contribution for today is 2 shirts, partially because one is for E.T. Branded vitamins

Check it out:

The first is a league of their own, a movie about someone (tony danza?) coaching a women's softball team with alot of famous people on it (Madonna, rosie o'donnell, and I forget the rest).

[hermosavtg]

If only it had been Tony Danza and not Tom Hanks intoning "There's no crying in baseball!!"

[hermosavtg]

Here's a David Lynch branded ERASERHEAD t-shirt, copyrighted 2001. So did Lynch ever have his own official clothing label??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0235203015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[lord ched]

I see your Lynch and raise you this video promo for Clan of the Cave Bear... an amazing image of Daryl Hannah. If the movie had lived up to the picture, it would have been a masterpiece. It did not live up to the picture...

[hermosavtg]

Oh my very nice. A little Siouxsie and the Banshees vibe. Is it for sale?

Reminds me of a Quest for Fire t-shirt I had:


Perhaps as if like Rae Dawn Chong in QFF, Daryl Hanna had been totally nude most of the film, it would have been a more entertaining movie!

[lord ched]

Hmm... I just got it, and it's impossibly rare and really cool (deadstock condition, too), so you'd have to make it worth my while. What were you thinking of bidding?

[lord ched]

Warning: really, really thin no-name brand. Still, sooooo buttery soft. 18.5x25.5

[hermosavtg]

Hard to gauge the desirability of bad (not good bad either!) movies with awesome shirts. you gonna post it on auction? I can offer you my Killer Klowns t-shirt in trade. Maybe you could name one in the inventory...

[lord ched]

Hmmm... was sort of dithering on putting it up at all until you asked. Thing is, the movie was a flop, but the book it's based on is a worldwide cult bestseller, and I was wondering if some Jean M. Auel uber-fans would fight over it just to complete their collections. Was going to use it as the first shirt in a new pop-culture-time-forgot feature for the Defunkd blog... hmm hmm hmm.

What does that Killer Klowns shirt look like?

[hermosavtg]

eh, nothing special, just like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/KILLER-KLOWNS-From- ... 0161240466" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BTW, that Quest for Fire t-shirt took about 6 months to sell for, finally going for $14! I thought it would have brought some big fight from some Jean Jacques Annaud fans but...

[lord ched]

How about I just monitor your inventory and see what I like? Though William Shatner surrounded by testicles is a compelling image...

Always on the lookout for Berlin's Pleasure Victim... if you come across it, let me know and we can deal.

[hermosavtg]

He's looking a little cross-eyed there too. So many fuzzy balls!
There's a Love Life t-shirt here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-1984-BERLI ... 0404095152" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[lord ched]

It's just a hair too large for me (I like 'em 19-20" p2p, 20.5 if I'm feeling lucky), and at $75 is a bit out of reach for someone on a disability cheque. Also, I'm kind of attached to that particular album. What can I say? I'm a little girl. When we talk shirts together.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

Here's my (un)obscure nomination for today:

A 1988 Die Hard Tee. FOTL label.

Unfortunately obscure tees are too obscure for me to recognize.

[jimmyj]

whoa sweet...you selling that badboy?

[CRAZYBUBBA]

Nope that's going to Manhattan as well.

I've decided against selling piece by piece myself. I'm consigning the goods one month and then selling my bales in alternate "months" (a "month" is basically whenever my next container ships). It'll help keep the quality of the bales consistent but also let me test the waters of vintage resale. Since I've just shipped a container this tee won't be in stores for another 2 months.

[jimmyj]

what about selling it to your ol' pal jimmy j?

[CRAZYBUBBA]

It's yours. I'll send you a PM.

[jimmyj]

Action Jackson....one from my collection.

[StivTaters]

Yes! I love this category! Pre Alligator incident Carl Weathers. Great shirt and unfortunately for one guy from my high school who got caught doing his best Pee-Wee Herman impersonation in the bathroom stall, a great nickname.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

My contribution for today:

It's a non-obscure TV show but let's just pretend that it's for one of Hasslehoff's many "forgotten" movie cameos.

It's got an 80s Hanes tag.

[hermosavtg]

Should there be a separate thread for "Forgotten TV-Show Shirts"?