Do you follow the "That Guy/Girl" rule at concerts and shows?

[ButterflyBlood]

you all know how it goes:

At every concert/show you go to, there will be a guy/girl wearing a shirt with the name of the band playing on it. Don't be that guy/girl.

I always do. When I went to Dispensing of False Halos I made sure my DoFH shirt was in the wash the morning of the show. Sure enough, someone violating the that guy rule. Last night I went to Circle Takes The Square/Mannequin/Spirit Lies Broken/Best Left Forgotten/Systems Victims and while I didn't see anyone wearing a CTTS shirt (the headlining band) there was a SLB. Luckily it wasn't me :)

[SuperZippy]

1. as long as you don't buy it at the concert

it isn't that bad of a deal.

especially if it is one from a concert/tour a few years ago.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Na man, even for an old tour it's still pretty bad.

edit: Don't be that guy.

[ButterflyBlood]

3. nope

I bought my DoFH shirt at one of their shows (a few months ago) and still made sure I didn't wear it. I actually once had a friend who borrowed a shirt as his only clean one at the time was of the band playing. But I guess punk people are more concerned about this.

[mitchum]

4. It is a faux pas. The only thing worse is wearing your own band's shirt..

ANYTIME

[ButterflyBlood]

5. ha ha, because one of my friends last night

WAS wearing his own band's shirt, even though they broke up about 3 years ago and not many people remember them.

[Bob3]

7. Tell that to Motorhead (if you dare)

N/T

[mitchum]

13. Yeah, but Lemmy also wears white shoes after Labor Day

he's hopeless

[PittPoliSci]

19. i'll tell him tomorrow.

when i see him play w/ iron maiden. :-)

[Heddi]

6. Fuck that rule

Wehn I was 8 years old, I went to my first REM concert. I bought a t-shirt (more like the person that took me bought me a t-shirt) and got it in adult-size XL. For many years of my life that was my sleeping t-shirt, but I always wore it to every REM concert I went to (Hey! What's a 12 year old know).

I'm seeing REM in Seattle on Labour Day, and just like I've done for the countless other concerts, I will be wearing "Fables of the Reconstruction" t-shirt with the bike and the monkey and the parrot.

Why would I wear another band's shirt to a show? That's like going to a Dallas Cowboy's football game and wearing a Seahawk's jersey.

I love my bands---If I see them in concert, it is because they have become WORTHY of my seeing them live. I don't see many concerts because frankly 99% of bands can't play outside a studio.

So when I go, I show my allegance and my appreciation for good music and often cool shirts

:)

[geniph]

9. Hey, Heddi, maybe I'll see you there

and I'll probably be wearing my UP t-shirt, the one with the double helix on the back! ;-)

[mitchum]

15. You can't wear THEIR shirts here in town (Athens)...

even if you know them and/or love them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I never heard of this rule...

I wear Cheap Trick T-shirts to Cheap Trick concerts, not that I get to go to any anymore. When did this rule come about??

[PittPoliSci]

20. its more of an underground type thing.

i think its a faux pas for those involved in indie music, and stuff you generally wouldn't hear on the radio.

my favorite: going to see pantera (i'd never go), EVERYONE will be sporting pantera shirts and mullets.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. Hey, shush

I do that. :D

[U2Shark]

11. That's a stupid rule

I went to the Iron Maiden concert last night in Detroit. Half the crowd was wearing Maiden gear, me included! It is fun to do, you can play 'spot the oldest tour shirt' game.

[arcane1]

12. and this is a rule why...?

:shrug:


seems like it's even worse to wear a shirt from some other band, no?

[disgruntella]

14. i go to concerts topless, then buy the band shirt

just kidding. :evilgrin:

Since I moved back to Montana I haven't seen a decent concert in years. Oh, but CHARLIE DANIELS is coming to the fair this year! :boring:

[Spintronic]

16. What about don't be that band...

A few of the They Might be Giants shows I've been one of the Johns and a Dan was wearing a TMBG shirt that they were selling in the back. Then I decided that if John can do it, so can I.

[DS1]

17. I was 'that one guy', and I admit it

but it goes further than that.

Not only did I wear an Overkill shirt to an Overkill benefit concert that was held outdoors, I wore white jeans shorts to it. Hey, this was mid-eigthies, and I didn't know better.

Needless to say, I was thoroughly ignored, but the concert rocked, and the benefit raised far more money for a young girl that needed some sort of surgery that was needed. So all was good.

[PittPoliSci]

18. i am never that guy.

i may buy a shirt at the concert, and for quick storage i'll put it on UNDERNEATH of the shirt i'm currently wearing. but i wouldn't be caught dead in a band's t-shirt at their concert.

my other thing is, i won't wear bands shirts that i know everyone else will be wearing. so i don't wear a ramones shirt at a queers show. i'll wear something like Unearth, that nobody will be wearing, or even a "CWA for GORE" shirt.

its just proper form.

[ButterflyBlood]

22. yeah I try to avoid that too

that's why I never wear my DoFH shirt to ANY ND shows, since there's always at least one person wearing one (DoFH are insanely popular in North Dakota, far more than in Minnesota). At that DoFH show I was at someone was wearing the Planes Mistaken for Stars shirt, so I've banned that one too. I wore a Converge shirt last night.

Any merchandise I buy, I throw in my car if I can get to it, or I wait until after the show to buy it otherwise.

[oustemnow]

21. Kee-rist, one more reason why I love indie rock, but hate indie rockers

why in Koresh's name is this considered some kind of fatal faux pas, worthy of derision by the Spock-haired, horn-rimmed, man-purse-carrying elite snobs? What, if you're at a band's show, it's some kind of secret that you're a fan of the band? I wouldn't go out of my way to wear a band's shirt to their show, but I'm certainly not going to look down on someone who does. What a bullshit rule, for those who proudly proclaim themselves to not follow rules.

See ya at the next pep rally, Muffy!

[Forkboy]

23. I could care less either way

I just grab the same shirt I'd wear all day anyways.If it happens to be the same band that's playing,oh well :shrug: