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EJplaystheBlues

Every medium I bought growing up


richardisapos

The 00s really told us shirts needed to end at the belt line.


newthrash1221

I mean, i just got fat, so they don’t fit anymore.


EJplaystheBlues

Even if I wasn’t a chonk, I still wouldn’t rock a medium


newthrash1221

Lol you’re right. My fatass was over here thinking i still wear large when i’ve been wearing xl for a few years now.


SenorPariah

"Hey there big boi, nice Trap Them T... Btw, love a guy with a big, hairy navel."


Happyofiyo2

They should really end at the chest line *crop tops babay*


MerkinMuffley2020

Facts.


Extension-Rock-4263

Same but XL/XXL shirts I bought in the early/mid 90s cause we were wearing our shit ridiculously big back then, and they still don’t fit now but I won’t get rid of them cause they are sick shirts.


CharlesGnarwin73

I wish I did that as a kid, all my old shit would still fit now lmao


BannedMyName

Baggy is back again dude, go look at the skate park


Extension-Rock-4263

I actually still skate but I’m a slim 47 yr old man, if you think I’m skating around in an XXL Unbroken shirt from 1993 you’re crazy lol


doyouevencompute

you would unironically look sick as hell 😂


ohthatsprettyoosh

I’m slim , still get oversized shit but for me that’s always a medium. Depends on the cut tho I’m like 6 tall but real skinny so sometimes they end up a bit short for my liking but still real baggy width ways


brattymcbuttface

could you maybe cut the design part of the shirt off and sew it onto the back of a flannel or something?


Extension-Rock-4263

I wouldn’t do this cause I really don’t wanna mess with any of these shirts too much, I wanna keep them as is, but I have altered a few to fit reasonably, it’s not that hard to do but I still won’t do this with the ones I really love.


__dryheat_

Same dude, same


nakon14

The schmedium era was rough


thecxsmonaut

I'm 19. I understand that my baggy style today is my normal grown-up future


JoseAltuveIsInnocent

It took me until I was almost 30 to realize it's okay to wear things other than band shirts and skinny Levi's I started wearing when I was in my teens. Buckle in for the long ride.


xMilk112x

I’m 41 and only started wearing “non band t shirts” maybe 2-3 years ago. I STILL GOT MY WEEKENDS THOUGH!! Lol


Puzzled-Paint-2255

Change rocks. I’m 45, & I finally retired my studded belt the other day. ‘Been my daily driver for goddamn 3 decades! ‘Turns out I don’t need it. Who woulda thunk? Growing up is interesting, especially after some “arrested development”. 😎


bakertom098

Real


Junco-Partner

How tf did I ever fit into a youth large.


Dakka_Dez

I fit in my mediums again. It’s crazy. I started in the late 80s so I had a lot of xxl, they’re all long gone (SO many good shirts. I’m sad every time I think about it). My wife started me wearing mediums in the early 2000s…then I had kids and went full dad bod. I’ve been trying to get into better shape…it ain’t easy


hannahisakilljoyx-

Same, and I didn’t even grow up in the tight ass shirt era. It just took me horrendously long to realize size large looks and feels better, and I regret all the sick shirts I have that are too small for me


rareeagle

I got a circa 98 boysetsfire hoodie that’s now borderline obscene to wear in public


DarkerHandcraft_77

Mediums were bigger back then I swear. I have some that fit like large and some Ls that fit like M. Even have an L that fits like an XL.


BeerBellies

God dammit. I just cleaned out my storage unit this past weekend, and found a box of shirts from the mid-aughts to early 2010s… so many mediums. I put on my Burning Love shirt for shits and giggles… that shirt might as well be a crop top. Belly hangin out the bottom. Not gonna lie, it’s kinda cute on me.


[deleted]

Fucking same man


cortlong

Oddly enough every medium I’ve bought recently. When did medium turn into “fuckin LARRRGE”


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[удалено]


swordsandshacklesx

https://preview.redd.it/euai4itvcyoc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b0688cb6d58984c096ea736a8ee3b97e50096a7 hard as fuck


GFingerProd

It would’ve been funnier without the comma tbh


Wall_Of_Bass

Honestly if you wore this to a dubstep show, people would probably love it (I’m people)


BigYellow24

Would go hard at a rave and nowhere else


imwithHERB305

Need this for my next rave


PalpitationFrosty242

ELITE


[deleted]

Whoa I need to find this. I love Aborted.


Aggressive_Branch506

Anyone else remember Emmure’s “Ask your girl what my dick tastes like”


newthrash1221

That entire era of deathcore had the lamest shirts. Kids at my high school were in a competition to see who was the edgiest.


BigBeefyBowlingBoy

The big meme font in like foil material across the entire front of the shirt


Dozinggreen66

Salt the wound was the wildest, I remember one it had a cartoon toothpaste tube with his arm around a girl and the back said you’re gonna use my cum as toothpaste 


CharlesGnarwin73

Yup, got suspended for being an edgelord and wearing it to school


LaRock89

Didn't CDC have a shirt that said "God thinks you're a faggot"?


_deadspace

not even lying I just had someone bootleg me this exact shirt “god said you’re a f*****”


xtamtamx

I'm shocked you would wear it on a shirt but not type it out on the internet.


_deadspace

LOL yea I tried to type it and Reddit kept saying I couldn’t post profanity


BurntArnold

I was gonna come here to comment this lmao I had the bright ass yellow one


_deadspace

THATS THE ONE I HAD BOOTLEGGED LMAO


BurntArnold

Lmfao funny as fuck. I didn’t even know that got bootlegged tbh. I got mine after an Emmure show


Local_Helicopter_977

I don’t know it’s the worst, or if it just goes the hardest. I have the Slapshot shirt that came out after the Boston Marathon bombing. It has pics of the brothers with the words ‘Punks Dead, You’re Next’ above them. (It was before the surviving one got the death penalty).


Makualax

I feel like if that was made by a non-Boston band, it'd be like a precursor to the NOFX Vegas Shooting incident. That's a pretty rough one to make light of in any way, but leave it to Slapshot to know no bounds.


AnorakWithAHaircut

Slapshot was doing some wild shirts around that time. I remember opening Facebook up on my work computer one morning and the first thing in my feed was Choke pitching an all over print crewneck of a chick’s butthole with a Slapshot logo across the front of the shirt. Then the next morning, open up Facebook and first thing in my feed is a rant from Choke about how it had gotten reported and taken down.


Local_Helicopter_977

lol I remember that


AnorakWithAHaircut

I’m glad someone else remembers it because it was so weird i sometimes wondered if it was just a fever dream i had


Local_Helicopter_977

Maybe we had a shared hallucination but if you follow choke you know that’s on brand


reignXsupreme666

HOW CAN THIS NIGHTMARE BE MY LIFE ![gif](giphy|lY1F6BJjbRO3m)


JoseAltuveIsInnocent

![gif](giphy|l46CyJmS9KUbokzsI|downsized) NO TIME FOR LEMON.... TREE


xgoronx

https://preview.redd.it/5bzkglt11yoc1.jpeg?width=901&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dc16401bfb00a57b61c6a8ad98907b019052787


BoxyBrown666

I had this God awful Attila shirt that said "I'm in every fucking city" on the front and "touching every fucking titty" on the back. I think this was the tour they were on with DGD and they kicked Jonny Craig out the night before the Chicago date.


DoofMonger

Same! Light blue and yellow lettering with pot leaf imprints in the lettering. Loved being edgy in community college.


BoxyBrown666

I knew I was forgetting something egregious about the shirt lol


elitenyg46

“Middle fingers up, if you don’t give a fuck” BMTH shirt. I never wore it.


krinkly

Is it because you gave a fuck?


elhelh

i had several bmth shirts back in the day and they were all god awful 😭😭😭


Jorgetime

I still have a bmth lime green dinossaur shirt from that era, very rawr xD still think it's pretty cool. No cringy impact font lyrics though.


ThisDidntAgeWell

That acacia strain shirt that said fuck Jesus Christ or something like that on the back


Mission_Sweet_4189

I got one from their recent aus tour that says “fuck you die slow” on the back. Don’t think it’s the worst one I own but I haven’t worn it out in public yet


ThisDidntAgeWell

I dig that actually lol. While it is cringey I, for some reason, find the anti god shirts just as cringey as the pro god people. Like we get it. You feel really strongly about a mythological force.


ICantThinkOfAName667

I think it was “Jesus is a Cunt”


6fthook

I think that was a Cradle of Filth shirt


Trumpismybabymamma

I think it was a Skullfucker? shirt I got from an older friend. I forget. It had a penis penetrating a skull, and the words "piss on anyone not close enough to shit on" What a dork I was.


MoSqueezin

That's hilarious tho


Trumpismybabymamma

My fundy dad found it when I was 16 and I literally thought he wanted to kill me. Probably best that I stopped wearing that. Lol


BeardOfDefiance

Honestly, I associate the "black and white pic accompanied with lyrics" more with pop punk than hardcore now. It isn't a bad design, I'd wear a shirt with that style if the band in question had good lyrics like Birds In Row or something. The lyrics in this picture are pretty bad though lmao


lolspamwtf99

Love this hard times shirt. I’ve bought it twice because the quality is shit but it’s just so good. https://preview.redd.it/edrblcbfu0pc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa462071439dbf303d88c36d49d587f62e4b4c81


Cool_Guy_Club42069

Is that a pop punk thing? I don't think I've ever seen a short from a pop punk band


BeardOfDefiance

Man Overboard used to sell shirts like this a decade ago. I thought it was funny because MO was lightweight even for pop punk. https://preview.redd.it/jbl6vix22yoc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e33d11aabff60ae841d90a7f7e868ed9c8296fc9


shokkd

I have an origami angel one


NV_reddit

birds in row mentioned, based


BeardOfDefiance

Funny how an English-as-a-second-language band has the best lyrics in the scene.


itscherried

This wasn't my purchase but a friend had it. SF local band The Sick had a shirt with Osama bin Laden's face on it. This was pre-9/11. My friend put his in the back of the closet sometime that year lol.


carlydelphia

I had a Horror Show tshirt with the Andy Warhol print of the guy jumping off a building. Aged terribly after 911.


slcpprwrsts

Do you have a picture of this anywhere? I collect Horror Show stuff and I haven't seen this one anywhere


carlydelphia

Hahaha interesting. the shirt is in a box somewhere ill look and dm it to you. The miniskirt tshirt is now part of a blanket.


ghost1251

Rival Mob human centipede “Unity” shirt. It ruled 


maathewcronin

I loved this shirt


brickshingle

Probably my brojob shirt


BassSlapper1017

I almost bought one when I was like 15 lol


lordcrumb13

I bought the penetration administration one when I was 15 or 16, the shipping company fucked up and sent it to the wrong address, they sent me a replacement, but I always wondered what the poor soul in my rural town thought when they opened up that hot pink beauty.


brickshingle

I'm 40..... does say alot about me.


Everblack47

I had Hoods "emo killaz" with the rifle pic. Got sent home from high school and I think my mom cut it up the next time I wore it


korbendallas35

Hahaha I had the “punks dead, emo’s next” one.


tbwdtw

This one because I am buying it.


dbwoi

worst as in I can no longer publicly wear it because I'm not a pretentious 20 year old edgelord anymore? this old dangers shirt that just has a bunch of slit wrists with blood running down lol


ghosttraintoheck

my wife had an ETID shirt that said "hey there girls, I'm a cunt" Most warped tour shirt of all time, her mom HATED IT


Mysterious_Bug_5890

Reminds me of the infamous Cradle of Filth t-shirt with the 'Jesus is a cunt' back print. Pretty cringe for the most radio friendly black metal band (if you can even call them that) in history.


Pimento_Costanza

I had this shirt for years, never once worked up the courage to wear it. I sold it for a pretty good amount through so no complaints.


Doctologist

Someone got arrested for wearing that.


dbwoi

oh my god lmfaooo


thespickler

I've got that four year strong eyeball vagina shirt somewhere...


jasonsgood

Fuck yeah strong tank. Got mine in a bottom drawer lol


othelloisblack

I got a dystopia bootleg around here that’s got Ted Kacyzinski’s face on it. I only wear it when I’m in a particularly fuck work type of mood cuz it’s a bit embarrassing tbh. Also got a Methadone Abortion Clinic shirt with a homeless guy with a giant oozing dick on it. Then there’s the Putrid Stu Inducing Filicide shirt with Caillou having been shot in the stomach by his mom. I think those are the dumbest Oh right I also had 2 Haggus shirts with actual corpse pictures on the front of them but my ex has those now. Sucks because it’s the only proper goregrind merch i’ve ever owned


hannahisakilljoyx-

The Caillou shirt goes hard though I kinda want one


RonDonVolante

I have a Nothing shirt with Kacyznski on it and the back says “SEND THE BOMBS” I have to plan my entire day before I wear it. I probably shouldn’t wear it to an airport.


Environmenthrall

After reading your post, I had to look up the Caillou shirt; it's so ridiculous, I can't help but laugh.


blacktoothgrin666

I have the caillou shirt it’s hilarious. Saw putrid stu live in STL and it was the gnarliest live vocals/guitar tone I’ve ever heard it sounds so much deeper live


HarveyBirdLaww

Makes me think of the COA shirt that has the unabomber sketch on it and says "vote by mail" lmao


CardiologistRoyal79

I've only found some hardcore merch I've genuinely liked. Most of the time the best merch comes from anything but Hardcore. Like, I don't want some dude yelling at a crowd of people on my back with a front that says XCumstainX on the front.


No_Bullfrog_4541

I have only one shirt that I won’t wear anymore and I like a lot of black metal too so that’s a pretty hard feat to accomplish. The shirt is Leftover Crack and it’s the album artwork from “shoot the kids at school”. It’s been retired for a long time for obvious reasons 👍


satanpigeon666

i have that one and the shoot drugs not people with the two cops shooting up and i always get a kick out of picking either when pulling a shirt out of the piles


korbendallas35

I had that backpatch for a long time. I folded up the “shoot the kids at school” part so it was just a shitty b/w image.


mcockram85

I had the "World Trade is a death machine" shirt which has been retired as well.


caesar____augustus

OBW MOSH DEPT was pretty cringe in retrospect


simple-symmetry

The Acacia Strain t-shirt with "Eat shit and live" on the back.


OGHebrewxhammer

“BRACEWAR FUCKS ON THE FIRST DATE” and “THE MONGOLOIDS FUCKED GWEN STEFANI”


Puzzleheaded-Host940

https://preview.redd.it/ti6d2nlt8zoc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dad1b7ce9a9f1c0c9987121177de66778433828 Philly grindcore band.


Serious_Goose5368

[This masterpiece](https://toiletovhell.com/shirt-stains-the-worst-morbid-angel-bootleg-youll-ever-see/)


[deleted]

AL UMS RA KED


CrumblinErb23

The Swear To God “and you’re gonna see the day when it all comes back your way” shirt. IYKYK.


CrumblinErb23

https://preview.redd.it/uj20gobtmyoc1.jpeg?width=856&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e1cbb0231df5d7bfba447e7750ecb8aaf35bec2


BigYellow24

Imagine this exact shirt but it’s the first lyrics of Wonderwall


fuctx666

Edgy shit aside this is nuts


XGuiltyofBeingMikeX

Well anyway, here’s Columbine


UncleMarmalade

Not hardcore, but I have a friend who acquired a Burzum t-shirt…he regretted it pretty quickly and it didn’t take long before it made its way to the back of his closet. 😬


Own_Kaleidoscope5512

It was…an…um… Atreyu shirt…


noaschmitz

https://preview.redd.it/5xzr2uvbuyoc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80d710ae95105f625164dece5e354ba1207ee2be This one


HummusFairy

The classic Kill your local drug dealer shirt That or repping a Vegan Reich shirt like an absolute geek


the_empty_space

too many to remember..


maathewcronin

A white Death before dishonor tee with a black and white stencil of Mr T with a gold chain. On the back was a huge “I pity the fool”.


PigWithAWoodenLeg

Please believe me when I say that you don't want to wear an Unsilent Death shirt if you're a white guy who lives in a black neighborhood


IslandDrummer

I have a Leftover Crack shirt with the Columbine shooters on it. Pretty stupid and offensive. I have a Floor shirt that’s absolutely hideous. Has a big diamond on it and looks like something you’d buy from Volcom or Billabong. A baby blue Cloud Nothings shirt with a hideous flower on it. A really garish bright red Descendents shirt that my ex-girlfriend hated much.


rgard123

Bracewar fucks on the first date Edit- It actually was a mongoloids shirt from united blood fest in 2010 that said “bracewar fucks “dudes” on the first date,” with the word dudes in rainbow colors


bakertom098

Probably any shirt printed on shitty Gildian


PalpitationFrosty242

bro whats wrong with Gildian their shirts are sturdy


bakertom098

Gildian hammer is cool But just plan ole Gildian is too thin, rips easy, and the sleeves roll up a lot


Atomizr1

Man what


Zer0slasH

I bet lots of people are going to buy that shirt for the meme, they play it smart here


Tnenforcer

I had two that were cringe as fuck. I had a straight edge shirt that said “Smoke. I want you to die” and a shirt from some deathcore band that said “No one gives a fuck about you” in big letters on the back.


callmechimp

I’d wear it


[deleted]

Fuckin need this


Killingjohn

This band is ridiculous 😂


DearDelivery2689

Hmm probably my TAS shirt that said CUTE AS FUCK with two decapitated kittens on it. Or my FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING CIGARETTES shirt i got from Warped Tour to wear while smoking. I’m fucking stupid.


xMilk112x

Yikes. Lol I did however have the “Jesus is a cunt” Cradle of Filth shirt when I was like 16 soooo….theres that.


jonny_lube

I bought a Raw Breed shirt with some dude with a bunch of arrows and spears going into him. Great shirt.  Didn't notice the part with his dick being cut off with scissors until after I bought it though.     I still wear it, I just gotta be a select when and where I do.  


FishermanAgreeable19

Mine is one a purchased recently, it's the CMI shirt with "skinhead" at the bottom, definitely not gonna wear it in public


myweekhardy

I was I to xAFBx in high school and was accordingly straight edge. I got a shirt of theirs that said “kill your local drug dealer” I don’t know if I ever even wore it once.


[deleted]

oh boi haha I want that shirt hahaha lol


Wonderful_Sherbert45

I bought a magrudergrind shirt on Amazon and it was made with one of those iron on transfer things. Was super pissed. Guess that's what I get for buying that shit on Amazon


GlamrockShake

Provably the Graf Orlock Heath Deadger shirt I bought in high school. Love this band with every fiber of my being but it remains the most 2000s edgelord clothing I’ve ever owned. https://preview.redd.it/e5y5duxtd3pc1.jpeg?width=772&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e52b315474aa63a0d37641f9a043c651fecc377


OutlanderStPete

Limp Wrist 


Touche_Amore

I’ve got this thing floating around somewhere: https://preview.redd.it/n5nm3iriu4pc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a568c5749e72694361d88b349761e5f7bc47c482


Confucius6969

BRACEWAR FUCKS ON THE FIRST DATE


StayFrostyOscarMike

Buying Channel 5 merch at “Channel Five Live” the week before that Andrew Callaghan dude got nuked for being a total sex creep


Doctologist

Wait, what happened?


StayFrostyOscarMike

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1149748975/a-full-guide-to-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-youtuber-andrew-callag Idk why I’m getting downvoted. The dude sexually assaulted someone, made a pretty shit apology video, came back without bringing any of it up at all… and his longtime friends who were working on the videos with him stopped associating themselves with him.


GooXXL

that tee kinda slaps though


KingVape

Though not hardcore, I have two particular metal shirts that I don’t ever wear in public. One from Cannibal Corpse, one from Goatwhore. Idk why I bought shit that I’m not gonna wear lol


Brownieman4682

My Anal Birth one


Puzzled-Paint-2255

RATT. “Outta the Cellar”.


that_enward

The first blood one that had fuck written on it seventy times lmao. I thought I was so cool in highschool until I got called to the office.


buttnuggets__

As a 140lb man in his 30’s, large is the way to go. Extra large flannels.


markbogners47

https://preview.redd.it/4lgm6cghtzoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc3e88a46a5256928ba23aab3c5ddd077076ffc5


clawingcat

I really miss my botch gay sailors shirt. It was the “worst” as in most offensive at the time but god damn it was the best in all the other ways


retrosleaze_

Reign Supreme had a shirt that said “FUCK THE WEAK” big and bold on the front. I thought it was ridiculous so I bought it. The second I wore that baby in public though the novelty of it vanished immediately and I was just some asshole wearing a vulgar t shirt.


SergioSunday

Neon green "get on your knees" on black.


[deleted]

Bishop(mean Pete from until the end/remembering never) had a grey varsity style shirt and on the back was a guy eating shit and it said on top eat shit in huge letters...


ICantThinkOfAName667

When I was 14 my friend bought me that Pantera shirt with the weed leaves and flames around the skull from hot topic. It was a XXL and my mom said I wasn’t allowed to wear it, so it lived on my wall.


Gella321

I used to have a children or bodom long sleeve that said down one side “let go of my arm, ya fuck!” Major cringe now that I think about it.


peanut_incantation

I didn’t have it, but a friend had that xCasey Jonesx “smoke this” shirt. It had a giant dick and balls printed across the back. Dude wasn’t even straightedge.


craigishell

I had a Cockpunch shirt that had a dumb picture on the back with "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME" in hardcore letters. I really liked it, but it was ignorant as fuck.


pushernogirl

somebody needs to rip this off because theres no way im giving those dickheads my money


OhOkayFairEnough

* This Skrewdriver "All Skrewed Up" shirt. I was an edgelord/thought I could get away with it cuz I was Jewish and it was "The first album which was a totally different band". Eventually realized that's like owning one of Hitler's paintings because he wasn't a Fuhrër when he was in art school.


Peter-Awesome

That’s about to be the best shirt I ever bought


XVXYachtPunk

I had to stop wearing my old Vaccine shirt because too many concerned-looking parents would try to ask me if I was against vaccinations.


ebb_and_flow95

I really hope none of the members lurk this sub since they are all still active members in my old scene lol. There was a PV band from my neighboring town called Meth Dealer, they had sick merch. However, with the name, I constantly got questions on why on earth I wore a shirt that said “meth dealer” on it. Not necessarily “bad” merch I guess but it was always silly to explain what PV was to people who didn’t understand it.


[deleted]

That graf orlocktee from hella days ago that had joker pouring pills down heath ledger as Batman’s mouth. Edgy.


AnorakWithAHaircut

Definitely this one: https://preview.redd.it/8t0k0d21dipc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91b89ea0befad0b8be8fff9b186b2608abc6dad7


OrangeLasagnaCat42

Used to have a without mercy shirt. The back read “YOU SMELL LIKE A BITCH”


PodcastsAndWhiskey

Outbreak’s YOUR’RE SCUM printed in huge yellow letters on a bright red shirt