While hanging out on Queen Street West back in the summer of 1985, I saw a T-shirt with the image below and bought it immediately. I wore it all summer that year:
Click the image to see the source.
Yesterday’s entry, “Thank You, Mask Man!”, got me thinking about that time and what was then my favourite t-shirt. A little Googling led to me to this entry in the blog We Saw a Chicken, whose author had scanned the image from the magazine Strange Things are Happening.
I’m going to invert the image and make it the desktop background on my computers.
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I got the same t-shirt from a store called STRANGE on Queen west and wore the hell out of it too.
They sold a lot of clothes that made their way onto the set of Degrassi.
I printed that T-shirt. For years I printed Punk T-shirts under the moniker The Razor’s Edge. That image spoke to many of us back then. The image was designed by two of the Weirdos, Cliff Roman and Dave Trout, for “the” Weirdos calendar 1978. Check out page 98 in “Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement”. Interesting note: Steven Spielberg had a short-lived TV show and on the first show the main character, a sorta nerdy, Ugly Betty kinda girl wore the Weirdos T throughout.
I had that shirt (down here in Albany), in what I seem to recall as 1982.
The best part of it was that a pal of mine was married to a woman named Ellen. It was worth it just to hear his reaction when he laid eyes on it:
“I *GOTTA* have that shirt!!!”
I bought that t-shirt during high school in the 80′s and wore it ragged well into my years at U of T.
i bought this shirt today at a thrift store in connecticut. i feel like i’m carrying on a legacy.
I “borrowed” that t-shirt back in 1986 from my brother. He got while going to LSU. As an art student at La. Tech, my color theory professor just about had a cow over the shirt! Many a good memories. Would like to get another one to give back to my brother.