Category: Tees

Heat Check: Highest-Selling Vintage T-Shirts On eBay: December 2-14

Welcome to Heat Check! We are nearing the end of 2025, and Rap and Hip-Hop tees show off this week. A flurry of Eminem tees sold for shocking amounts of money. Maybe this will become a longer-term trend like Red Hot Chili Pepper tees have been this year. These are the top 10 best-selling vintage t-shirts on eBay over the past two weeks. After covering all of 2024, and summarizing the entire year in a top 10, we’re starting from scratch and showcasing the highest-selling vintage t-shirts on eBay in 2025. Some ground rules before we get into the list: ... Read more

The Most Expensive Vintage Nine Inch Nails T-Shirts Sold on eBay

Welcome to Heat Check! These are the top ten highest-selling vintage Nine Inch Nails T-shirts from the last three years on eBay. Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor’s industrial rock project founded in 1988, rose from Cleveland’s underground with the abrasive Pretty Hate Machine (1989). The band peaked in the ’90s with the landmark albums The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), survived Reznor’s addiction struggles, and later earned Oscars for film scores with Atticus Ross. Still active today, NIN was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. From the start, Nine Inch Nails T-shirts were ... Read more

Artistique Et Sentimental T-Shirt

Defunkd’s exclusive collection of new, vintage-inspired t-shirts for sale. Item #49: Artistique Et Sentimental T-Shirt Year: 2026 Price: $24.99 USD (Tracked shipping included) White base, 100% cotton, monochrome ink. Brand: Artistique Et Sentimental Modern Sizes: L (21″ pit to pit x 29″ collar to base.) XL (23.5″ pit to pit x 31.5″ collar to base.) Material: 100% Cotton Stitching: Double Needle Arms, hem Condition: New

Hoop Dreams Deferred

My brother and I at The White House 1991. Where is Michael Jordan? That’s all I could think about while out on the South Lawn of the White House awaiting the arrival of the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls championship team to meet with President George H.W. Bush. Wearing an official championship shirt and a MJ baseball cap, I clutched a Wilson basketball emblazoned with an authentic replica of MJ’s autograph, hopeful to get the real thing. My brother wore a matching shirt and a Bulls World Champion hat. Looking like we were from Chicago, but at the time we still lived ... Read more

Ding-Dong: The Wizard of Oz T-Shirt Myths Are Dead

You’ve probably heard the claim by now: MGM handed out “Wizard of Oz” promotional T-shirts at the 1939 premiere. It’s a delightful image: moviegoers in Hollywood walking out of the theater in matching tees, long before the T-shirt conquered the world. There’s just one problem. There’s no evidence that it happened. And the most critical piece of evidence doesn’t exist. No documented surviving example of a 1939 premiere giveaway shirt has surfaced. “But it was 86 years ago, and there were probably only 500 made!” Given the cultural impact of Oz, how groundbreaking the film was at the time, how ... Read more