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This is an absolutely brilliant [not to mention pitch perfect] piss take on Experimental Jetset's Beatles, Ramones and Rolling Stones tees. Of course, if you have no familiarity with the original designs this is just another t-shirt with some in joke that you don't understand. But those of you who are familiar with the source material are probably losing your shit and scrambling for your credit card like I am right now...

Even if the shirt does clock in at well over thirty dollars after shipping, an in joke that you actually get and can lord over unsuspecting people is worth its weight in gold.

P.S. If someone [anyone, really] doesn't eventually follow up with Public Enemy and Run DMC riffs on the same design, I'll be a bit sad.

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• Threadless Submissions Of The Week: The recently submitted feed that Justin hacked together for us is proving to be really helpful. Our submission surfing has gone from leisurely and half assed to organized, concentrated and streamlined. Basically, browsing subscribing to the feed is like trying to get a swig of water from a fire hose, but we sort of like it that way...

  Now, despite being overwhelmed, we've managed to dig up six solid submissions that we think could use some love. You'll give Reluctant, The Trap Is Set, I [heart] Hearts, Haunted House Of Love, Got One and Bolt! at least a passing glance, won't you?

• Revolution Is Just A T-Shirt Away: Guy Trebay over at The New York Times has done up a nice piece on the current t-shirt boom. He even managed to slip a few companies into his article that weren't even on our radar. Bonus points to Guy for pulling that off...

Why the hell wouldn't Zach Morris have a posse? I mean, the cat was rocking a huge ass brick phone [In 1989, no less!] and he could land all the fly honeys without trying. Also, he always managed to pull one over on Mr. Belding - the coyote to his roadrunner - or any other adult for that matter.

Of course, some may argue that since the show primarily focused on Zach, all this shit came to him pretty easy and he never had to work to hard. While that might be true in some instances, I still think he's a hustler. And if just being a straight up hustler isn't enough to get you a posse, what is?

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• Hey Kids, It's Design Time! David from Dadawan was nice enough to send a little note along tipping us off to a little summer design contest that both they and I Love Your T-Shirt are throwing. With both a themed 2D category and a free form 3D category, this ought to be an interesting one to keep tabs on.
• Speaking Of Design Contests... There's a lovely King Kong submission that's really worth voting for over at La Fraise. To be honest, we'd really like to be able to buy it. And the only way that's going to happen is if you go vote on it. Pretty please, with sugar on top...
• Bad Puns, Ahoy! The venerable J.Ko was nice enough to send along a pointer to Typotheque's color of the day tees. You'd think we'd return the favor by not calling him J.Ko, but we're sort of jerks. You should know that by now.

  Anyhow, the concept behind these tees is a solid one... Seventy five folks who all work in creative fields were surveyed to find out what color they associated with a particular day. There must've been a lot of New Order fans surveyed though... How else could you explain the blue Monday shirt?

While sewing things onto t-shirts is nothing new, normally people use pretty standard fabrics like felt or corduroy. Yes Labs decided to take a different route with their Northcote tee. Sewn onto this tee is a 100,000 dinara note from Croatia, circa 1993 that has been dyed along with the organic cotton shirt. It's a novel idea that's got me wondering what else people will start sewing onto their garments in the name of fashion.

Now while it may be a bit odd to sport actual forigen currency on your tee, it's still a pretty unique idea. By the way, if the forty dollar price tag is too rich, nothing other than laziness is stopping you from making your own logo free knock off. All you'd need is a 100,000 dinara note, a blank American Apparel tee, a bottle of Rit, a sewing machine and a free afternoon.

Hell, I'd even go so far as to wager that you could do it for under a Jackson...

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• Threadless Submissions Of The Week: I swear that New Yorker and Sound Garden had 7 days worth of voting left when I picked them out on Friday, honest. Unfortunately, I've been battling an abysmal Summer cold since then and have just been too damn lazy to post them until now. *sigh* There's always an excuse with me, isn't there?
• Oh, Speaking Of Threadless: You know, combing thru submissions every week to find a favorite design can be a tad bit tedious at times. Fortunately, our pal Justin Mason was nice enough to rig up a killer scraped RSS feed of the most recent submissions at our request. Thanks for this, man. I totally owe you a pint!

Much love and props [not to mention a few prizes] to Spencer Katzman who came up with the new slogan for our header, "never mind the buttons".

No, really. That's our new slogan. Quit laughing, asshole.

Look, at least it was better than "fits you to a tee". We got like forty different variations on that one. And that sort of got tired about the fifth time it was suggested. We really, really hate repetition. *shrug* Maybe that's why we never were ones for Top 40 radio.

Anyhow, Spencer's submission made our inner punk slam dance with glee. Apparently that was enough to cinch the win. So hey, enjoy your loot Senor Katzman... You deserve it! And a big thanks to everyone else who sent something along.

Well, you know, thanks to everyone except those "fits you to a tee" assclowns. Seriously, what the hell were you thinking?

Look kids, a MySpace reference!

Were I actually the type to hang [or even have an account] on MySpace, I'd probably think this shirt was pretty clever. Otherwise, it just seems like a piss poor chat up line to me... *shrug*

P.S. Sorry if it seems like I'm sort of doing this one quick and loose. I'm trying to weed thru my favorite slogan submissions and pick a winner. Hopefully we'll have an announcement later tonight or tomorrow morning.

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Yes, this is a fifty eight dollar shirt. No, I don't have any problem running it. If you think it's too expensive for what you'd end up getting, don't buy it. That's simple, isn't it?

But I happen to think that the stuff Saltlick NYC turns out is worth it. Hell, every shirt is lovingly crafted and hand sewn. The folks at Saltlick also offer you complete control over the customization of your garment. They actually seem as if they want you to be happy with what you order, which is an admirable trait in my book. Y'know, not a lot of places offer that sort of service. To me, that makes their garments a little more worthwhile than a standard screenprinted tee...

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While Tian is busy running over Combo Clothing's kanji with a fine toothed comb, we're digging on their lovely console collage. Maybe it's because a lot of the gaming systems on this shirt bring back fond memories of spending too many Summer afternoons indoors building up severe cases of gamer's thumb.

Then again, it could just be that I'm a huge nerd who's more thrilled than he should be over the fact that they remebered to include a Dreamcast in the design. And while my inner Comic Book Guy is frantically looking for both the 3DO and TurboGrafix16, he's still nodding his head approvingly at what they managed to cram onto the shirt. Good job, new guys.

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