IceEiji 0 Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 When I see soccer game, I see so many people wearing replica team shirt. And I see many foreigner wearing the rock band t-shirt. Is it really common for this? In Japan, soccer shirt is common for Japan team especially, but I almost never see rock band t-shirt. Link to post Share on other sites
cakehead 0 Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Perhaps I shouldn't be admitting this, but I used to be very fond of my Iron Maiden t-shirt. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 band shirts are pretty popular here. for the younger ppl anyway. older ppl are more likely to wear football shirts, and not in canada. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Football shirts are huge huge business in the UK (and other places I suspect). Teams now have maybe 3 shirts, all of which the kiddies want. Over summer there was some fuss over price fixing for them (they're not cheap). Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 As with CDs, price fixing and gauging is a huge incentive to piracy. When I went back to England, I looked everywhere for football shirts for my son. With the addition of a number and name, each shirt would have cost the same as two full sets of the clothes he normally wears (no exaggeration). So instead of throwing away money, my wife found an auction site that deals in imitation strips and we buy those. The prices reflect normal clothing prices rather than 'intellectual property/brand equity' prices. Link to post Share on other sites
Goemon 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 IceEiji: Please feel free to wear rock band t-shirts as long as you do not wear the band's t-shirt when you go see the band (ie Wear an Iron Maiden t-shirt when you go to see an Iron Maiden concert). That is a serious no-no and you will be pummeled by the fashion police if you do so. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 The "brand loyalty" of the football fans in the UK is a mighty thing indeed. Fans get a really bad deal across the board but keep coming back for more. In terms of treating their fans like dirt, my team Newcastle are as bad as any. The problem you have with buying kids imitation shirts is that any kid over five or six in the UK will get stress off their mates for having fake gear. By that age they know what the real ones look like. I used to sell Thai-made fake shirts in Japan for a mate during the initial J-League boom. We sold thousands of them. It was magic. Apparently, some tour t-shirts from the 1970s and 1980s are now "worth" (i.e., are bought and sold for) a lot of money. Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Anyone here admit to wearing a soccer shirt (which one?) or band shirt? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 I used to have a full Liverpool kit when I was at school - I loved that kit. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 I would dearly love to be able to buy band T-shirts. It's really hard to find either a plain T-shirt, or one with something evenly vaguely significant printed on it, so a band T-shirt would represent a statement of sorts. Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 Cakehead, I too will admit to having several Iron Maiden t-shirts, along with a metallica one and a fine collection of Iron Maiden posters. This was early /mid eighties though and that stuff was the sh%t...... in northern Tasmania anyway! Still rock the odd band tee. Have a Chemical Brothers tee with has seen a lot of action. Goemon, one exception to your rule is if the band released a seminal first album, and subsequent releases were not up to par, or the band was underground then quickly rose to mainstream acceptance. Then you can attend the concert wearing the "I was into them from the beginning and you are all bangwagon-jumping newbies" early days t-shirt with justifiable pride. If you get into that sort of thing anyway. I'll buy and band tee if the live experience was magic as it brings back very good memories for me. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 When I went to see Radio Birdman at the Coogee Bay Hotel a few years back I bought their T at the concert and ended up wearing it that night at the end of the show.... but that was because I turned up to the concert only wearing a pair of board shorts in the first place. If anyone has any Birdman mp3's please let me know, I can only find one song on the net. I have every vinal they put out but have no player. Being the best band that blessed the best surfing beaches of the best surfing country in the world, I really miss their music. Birdman Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 I've got a fair few band t-shirts. Most of the ones i currently have are from more recent bands. My older ones all had more than enough use. I've got a couple of Slipknot ones, Mudvayne, Hed (pe), Tool and a couple of others that escape my mind at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites
kumie 0 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 If you look at Japanese soccer game, maybe 80% of peopel wearing the shirt of team! Link to post Share on other sites
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