Category: Tees

As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I was born into an analog world ruled by cassette tapes, CDs, VCRs, the TV Guide channel, 30-minutes-or-less delivery pizza, road maps and a healthy dose of secondhand smoke. Concert tickets had to be purchased over the phone, at a venue’s box office, by mail order, through a band’s fan club or in person from an authorized Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets were sold on a first come, first serve basis and you showed up as early as you could to get in line and wait until 9 a.m. when the ticket booth opened ... Read more

Welcome to MID Check 2026. We are mixing it up with some “lower” end t-shirt sales from $200-$999 range. Let’s take a look at some of the “mids” that are honorable mentions we miss if we are only watching the biggest sales. These are the ten T-shirts I thought were cool out of thousands that sold out in the last month.  After covering all of 2025, and summarizing the entire year in a top 10, we’re starting from scratch and showcasing the t-shirts that don’t seem to make the $1000 cut, yet are definitely honorable mentions. Some ground rules before we ... Read more

When people imagine Woodstock, they often picture more than just mud, music, and myth. In the collective imagination, the 1969 festival also exists as a merch moment — a milestone in the history of the concert T-shirt. It seems obvious, almost inevitable: an event that iconic must have had T-shirts for sale. There must have been attendees wearing the Woodstock dove. There must have been stacks of them in cardboard boxes behind a makeshift booth. That assumption has muddied the waters regariding which vintage t-shirts with Woodstock logos on them actually came from the event. Like many things about Woodstock, ... Read more

2025 is in the books, and these are the highest t-shirt sales on eBay of all of 2025. It was the year of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Butthole Surfers tees, as we saw more of their designs in the bi-weekly top 10 than any other. Vintage Sonic Youth tees also had a huge bounce-back year, along with Smashing Pumpkins – and it’s no surprise the highest-selling t-shirt in 2025 goes to the always top-selling Mosquitohead tees. Then we saw a late-year surge from Eminem tees, so maybe 2026 will be the year of Slim Shady, but until then, ... Read more

Whether it’s an iconic black-and-white portrait, an official release, or a bootleg collage in rap tee style, wearing a vintage Tupac shirt is repping a legend. For fans of hip-hop, streetwear, and vintage fashion, these shirts are gold. Authentic ’90s Tupac merch goes for hundreds, even thousands of dollars in collector circles. But while a vintage Tupac T-shirt might mean style and status on the streets in the U.S.A., it’s had a very different meaning in parts of Africa, especially during some of the continent’s darker chapters. YouTube/JourneymanPictures Back in the late 1990s, during the peak of Sierra Leone’s brutal ... Read more