Vintage Journal

Silverchair Made Freak Show at 16 While the Industry Tried to Break Them

Silverchair's second album was made by teenagers being paraded around the world. The imagery told you exactly what was happening.

The Vintage Tee Spectrum: Bootlegs, Overprints, and Why It Matters

A guide to vintage tees: true vintage, bootlegs, overprints, and reproductions. How we source from thrift shops, estate sales, and overprint artists — plus Pemulis Originals designed in-house. All art is derivative.

Æon Flux Died at the End of Every Episode and Nobody Thought That Was Weird

The Mazda RX-7 Used a Type of Engine That Almost Nobody Else Would Touch

Rage Against the Machine, 1992, and the Shirts That Weren't Supposed to Exist

Miyazaki Didn't Attend the Oscars Because of the Iraq War. Then His Film Won.

The 90s Thriller Promo Tee: A Film Marketing Format That Died With the Decade

Terror Has Been the Same Band for Twenty Years and That's the Point

The Gulf War Lasted 42 Days and the T-Shirt Industry Was Ready on Day One

The 90s Military Graphic Tee: When Gun Show Merch Crossed Over

Albert Einstein's Face Is on More T-Shirts Than Any Scientist Who Ever Lived. Here's Why.

Kurt Cobain Memorial Tees and the Year Everyone Made One

In the Weeks After September 11, Everyone Made a T-Shirt

Natural Born Killers Was the Most Controversial Film of 1994 and Everybody Saw It Anyway

Nirvana Played Live for About Four Years. These Shirts Are What's Left.

Woody Harrelson Was a Sitcom Actor When He Got Cast as a Mass Murderer

Ozzy Osbourne Has Been a T-Shirt Longer Than He Was a Rock Star

The Word 'Rice' in Car Culture: Complicated, Contested, and All Over the T-Shirts

The Problem With Putting Rage Against the Machine on a T-Shirt

Sade Made Four Albums in Twenty Years and Every Single One Was Perfect

John Pasche Got Paid £50 for the Rolling Stones Tongue. Then What Happened.

Salvador Dali Designed His Own Face and Then the Bootleggers Printed It on Everything

Mike Kelley's Thrift-Store Animals and the Sonic Youth Shirt That Came From Them

Se7en Was David Fincher's Revenge on Hollywood and It Made $327 Million

A Cure T-Shirt Used to Be a Signal. Now It's Just a Shirt. Both Are Fine.

The Cramps Never Made Sense and That Was the Entire Point

The Smiths Lasted Five Years and Left Enough T-Shirts for Fifty

Walt Disney Has Been Dead Since 1966 and His Quotes Are on More Shirts Than Ever