I think the people who wear band shirts purchased at concerts at the concert are the same people who take vacations to Myrtle Beach in their seventies and within fifteen minutes of arriving have a “Beach Bum, Myrtle Beach, SC” t-shirt stacked over the t-shirt they were wearing when they arrived, along with a matching Tilly hat.
It’s endearing in your seventies.
It’s just plain wrong at a concert. Especially when it’s not 1998, you’re not a thirteen year old girl with braces and teeny butterfly clips in your hair, and N Sync doesn’t rock your world (not endearing either, but nothing looks right thinking back on the scene that was Teenybopperdom, the Boy Band/Girl Power years).
We know you love the band. That’s why you’re here, right? But the “punk” shirt you bought from Hot Topic looks ridiculous under there and it’s kind of scaring me that the amount of gel in your hair held that faux-hawk still when you squeezed your head through the neck hole.
Shudder…
But then again, maybe I’m just cynical and the guy with the opening bands sweatshirt, wristbands, tote bag and shopping bag holding what appears to be the red boy short undies with the band’s logo on the bum (for a girlfriend? maybe?)…is just a bigger fan than me.
I’ll wear my shirt with pride. Next week.
When I was in high school, the cool thing was to wear the shirt the next day to prove you went to the show. Last time I moved homes I found a garbage bag with concert tshirts and sweaters from Sting, Billy Joel, and Simon and Garfunkel shows from the early 80s.
So TRUE Rach!! I have had so many arguments with Kel(mostly AT concerts, or on the way to concerts) about this exact issue!! Hahaha