So, hey, remember that Goatse shirt over at Threadless that we encouraged you to vote on?
Well, it got printed. And we're ecstatic. Probably more than we should be for a shit brown Goatse shirt, but still... Let me just go on the record by saying [this is good].
I know a whole bunch of sick, disturbed and depraved people who are going to want to jump all over this, so I'm just going to get out of the way and let the frenzy begin.
Update: It would seem like the folks who use Threadless blogs aren't too hype over the design.
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That’s right. I need some cool new t-shirts, but I don’t think I’ll look too good in them without dropping a few pounds. So I’ve bookmarked some favorites that Preshrunk has pointed me to. Every time I drop five pounds and keep it off for two weeks, I get to buy a t-shirt. If I gain the fiver back, the shirt goes in the charity pile.Often times, all it takes is a little motivation... Good luck Brandon! + Derek and Heather have got the most awesome Neighborhoodies ever. + Several people gave us a heads up to T.S. Design's eco-friendly screen printing process - which nets some nice looking shirts. Thanks to Holly, Justin and Ollie for the pointer.|W|P|111472036574453713|W|P|Hang Tags - 04.28.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
The cranks at MetaFilter got sand in their vagina over the wristbands - but I think the gear is a brilliant piss take on the Lance Armstrong Foundation's LiveStrong campaign.
Besides, the tee is sort of punk. I'm sure it'd elicit stares and sneers from at least a few soccer moms sporting their ubiquitous yellow wristbands. And if you live for that sort of thing, maybe this shirt is for you after all...
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Holy fucking Jesus! Does that girl have antlers growing out of her head or am I having a flashback?
Oh, she really does have antlers growing out of her head. Good. Because I've never, ever, ever done acid. Which means that I'd have no idea why I'd be having a flashback.
Quit snickering. I'm serious.
Okay, so it may be white - which we rarely like to point to - but the design itself is cool enough for us to overlook that mild irritation. Besides, this tee is for the ladies - many of who can pull off white far better than most of the men I know. Why is that, anyway?
$17.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111455029971498009|W|P|Antler Girl|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Reader Nick was awesome enough to point us in the direction of an absolutley stunning octopus shirt from the dude who makes Dinosaur Comics. If you've been following us for a while you know we have a soft spot for tees featuring cephalopods. Well, this shirt just made that spot a bit softer. *sigh*
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While I like a lot of the t-shirts you post, you should focus on the actual products and their creators, rather than on you, your friends, or other bloggers. Your blog seems more about perpetuating your own idea of "cool" than showcasing quality products or artists. I'm sure everyone would appraciate it you refrained from your feeble attempts at humor. Sniffing glue? Yeah, that's a good one. Girls like to talk on the phone? Just shut up. If you are determined to shill for t-shirt creators, you might have the courtesy to get your snarky, self-effacing hipsterism out of your readers faces. No one wants to read about you -- but you already know that.Y'know what, you're absolutley right. One should make no attempt to run a weblog that has any personality whatsoever. Heaven forbid if we upset someone's delicate sensibilities by writing something silly instead of writing an in depth bio about the guy who silkscreens each shirt by hand. Besides, researching the people/companies that we feature would actually require, like, work. And since this barely brings in enough to pay our bandwidth bills and buy an occasional energy drink, we're not about to treat it like a day job. Why let things like research get in the way of a good time? The thing is, we're not shills. We write about shirts that we dig with the hopes that other people will enjoy them too. If they do, awesome. If they don't, c'est la vie. Anyhow, out of the countless emails we've received, you're the second person to ever really complain in such a manner. So while we'd like to take your words to heart, we realize when you say "No one wants to read about you", you basically mean you don't want to read about us. So don't. It's not as if anyone has a gun to your head. But hey, thanks for the email. We're totally printing it out and putting it up on our refrigerator. P.S. We were huffing paint, not sniffing glue. While both give similar buzzes, we find paint to be much more nuanced and easier to inhale. If you're going to fire off a pissy email, please check your facts. |W|P|111402649536510638|W|P|Mail Bag - 04.20.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
I'm not quite sure what it is about a guy being dragged thru the void by a balloon that I like. But there he is, holding on. And here I am, liking it.
Sometimes I shouldn't have to explain myself. So I won't.
$15.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111402295161945155|W|P|Balloon|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
While I would describe myself as liberal, I wouldn't go so far as to say that I'm a tree hugging, tofu eating hippie. Still, most of my fairly narrow minded conservative friends swear that some of my political beliefs make me fall into that category. Besides, tofu tastes good...
So as a piss take, I'm totally going to order this shirt so I can thumb my nose at them without saying a goddamn thing. That's just my style, though. *shrug*
$15.50 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111385877748797572|W|P|Tree Hugger|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Hot damn. This one from the folks at FitForUse is rather nice. It's as if I almost can smell the Testors and model glue by just looking at it.
Wait... I was huffing paint on my lunch break. *shrug* Nevermind.
What makes this shirt even nicer is the fact that it's made just for you. You choose the shirt and ink color and the gang at FitForUse will screen it just for you. We live in an on demand world, baby. Keeping a stockpile of premade merchandise is so Internet 1.0.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've gotta take care of a nosebleed. Goddamn Krylon. [Thanks Jeremy!]
$19.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111361113918127398|W|P|How To Take Apart A Plane|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Here at the Rhode Island School of Design Some friends of mine put together a show of t-shirts we designed and printed ourselves. It was primarly printmaking students, but not exclusively so. Sorry the photos are a tad blurry, but I thought you might find it interesting.There's some neat stuff to be found here. Thanks Adam! + These ultra christian shirts are the most frightening thing Preshrunk reader Stephen has ever seen. Obviously, Stepen's never done a Google Images search for "prolapse".|W|P|111359412505706408|W|P|Hang Tags - 04.15.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
I'm not much of a sweets person, but I loves me some cupcakes. My gal has a recipe for these awesome peanut butter ones that could convince a lesser man to give up Atkins for the wonderfully sinful world of carbs. With any luck, I can get her to share it.
Actually, cupcakes seem to be the big thing right now. I'm not sure why, but my tummy doesn't seem to mind all that much. Johnny Cupcakes seems to be at the forefront of cashing in on the trend by making poppy, fun apparel featuring cupcakes. The cupcake and crossbones tee to the left is a great take on the pirate gear still making the rounds. Maybe I'm a minimalist, but I like the black on black design. *shrug*
If the crossbones design isn't your thing, be sure to check out their Statue of Liberty, Wu-Tang and Say Anything tees. All of them are wonderful little pop culture riffs that are very closet worthy.
Update: My girlfriend's gone ahead and posted her cupcake recipe. Yay!
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Just like most video games based on a movie, Friday the 13th for the NES was a big, steaming pile of crap.
Well, maybe that's not very fair. It's not like the game took it against the back of the throat and gargled. To be perfectly honest, my hate springs from the fact that I wasn't very good at it. But the game didn't play fair... Often times, Jason ambushed me mere pixels away from a badly needed power up. Dick move, Voorhees.
Sadly, it was the closest my parents would let me near the Friday the 13th series of movies until I was 13. So needless to say, my opinion of the series was forever tarnished by the game.
If you couldn't tell by now, I'm sort of a masochist... It should probably go without saying that I love this tee from Nostromo Design. It's a pretty faithful recreation of one of the many banes of my childhood existance.
$15.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111343984001315614|W|P|8-Bit Jason|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Here's one for the ladies. The fellas are just going to have to sit this one out, I guess...
We'll admit that most of Coop's shirts fall firmly in the "Not Safe For Work" category. That's not a damnation of his work - it's more of a warning, really. We don't want you to get in trouble for browsing around the site at your 9 to 5 gig.
This jersey style tee is perfect for the budding roller derby queen. Since the number is already affixed to the back, all you'd need is a pair of skates, some protection and a pair of hot pants. Mmmm, hot pants... *drool*
$24.00 | Credit | URL|W|P|111334932593460411|W|P|Wrenches|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Nullsleep tipped us off to this tee that contains a wonderfully subtle nod to scrolling shooters. In fact, it's so subtle that if you have no idea what scrolling shooters are - or why a TV is on its side - this shirt is probably not for you.
Sorry... I'll try harder to be more inclusive next time.
$15.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111334715051423334|W|P|Vertical Monitor|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
I know this isn't really your problem, but I thought I'd pass on my experience. I'm a big fan of your site, right from the start, and have managed to pick up some really cool shirts. However, I placed an order with zeroboutique - the guys behind your very first post about the 'ape-o-naut' t-shirt - on the 1st of January, and am still waiting... I've managed to get through to them a couple of times via email, and have got some pretty lame excuses. It's now the middle of April and I'm nowhere closer to seeing a return on the significant amount of cash I laid out in good-faith to these guys. Like I said, not really your problem, but I did find them via you, and you might want to consider whether you want to recommend their service to your readers in future...Since we recommended them to our readers, I'm going to make it our problem. I feel horrible when a company that we send traffic and sales to turns out to be nothing more than a bunch of shady twats. By posting his letter, I'm hoping that we can shame ZeroBoutique into providing our boy Neil with some actual customer service. Who knows, maybe they'll even send him his order. While we won't hold our breath on either thing, it does feel refreshing to help a brother out. Keep your fingers crossed for him, okay? Update: Neil sent this across the wire...
Whether as a result of my nasty emails, or the astounding powers of the blogosphere, I have now heard from Jason at ZeroBoutique, and he's filled me in on the situation. Apparently my order was "royally shnazzled" - whatever that may mean - but shirts are apparently on their way. At the end of the day, I'd still rather give my hard earned cash to a slacker printing his own t-shirts than line the pockets of the corporate fuckwits hawking their tawdry sweat-shop wares at me whenever I venture onto the High Street. So here's hoping they fit after I've waited five months for them...Our ego would like to claim that it was all thanks to us, but who's to really know how everything went down. Still, four months is a long time to wait for anything you order off the internet. Because of that, we still remain reluctant to list anything from ZeroBoutique again. Hope you see your stuff soon, Neil. Update: And now in the interest of fairness, we're giving the chaps at ZeroBoutique a chance to respond...
This is Jason from ZeroBoutique and I thought I better write to put in my 2 cents worth on this issue. ZeroBoutique is a very small operation and up until 2 months ago I did everything myself. As a result, some orders do from time to time fall through the cracks and become late. The order in question was supposed to be shipped by the end of February. That means that technically the order is actually only about 6 weeks late, not 5 months. I know, late is late, and I don't like making a customer wait anymore than they like waiting. I did stay in contact with Neil several times and was aware of the problems with his order. This week he wrote me 2 or 3 times and I was too busy to get back to him right away - I guess he (justifiably) got pretty frustrated by the whole process, as would I. The only thing I can say in my defense is that I work very hard to ensure people get their orders complete and on time - I have filled over 600 orders successfully since Christmas alone - but occasionally things like this do happen. I hope you won't judge me or my line based on this one customer's experiences - though if you did I guess I couldn't really blame you. Anyway, I'm posting 13 new designs on the site today. Anyone who places an order and mentions the code "preshrunk" will get a 10% discount on their PayPal balance. Sorry again Neil!I know how hard things can be for small businesses that are taking off. I've worked at my fair share of startups, so I have an idea of what they're going thru. I feel sort of bad for raking Jason and the rest of the ZeroBoutique folks over the coals, especially since they were nice enough to give us a discount code for our readers. How's that for blog justice?|W|P|111325302874590907|W|P|Mail Bag - 04.11.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
My inner Star Wars geek is happy to finally happy to have a better option for the Episode 3 premiere than my airbrushed Darth Maul tee. Seriously, that thing is getting ratty. Besides, I have a stonewashed jean jacket with the same art on it...
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It's likely that I'm in love with this one because I spent a good portion of my arcade money on the Return of the Jedi game. I swear, that game and Tempest 0wn3d my childhood.
I'm also a real big sucker for vector art. So this shirt has that going for it too.
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Speaking of being a sucker for vector art... This light cycle tee makes me sorry that I used all of my erection talk up on yesterday's Monkey tee. *shrug* Oh well. I guess I only have myself to blame for that one.
But Tron, man... Damn, that's a dope shirt.
$22.00 | Credit | URL|W|P|111300489615227572|W|P|Geek Trifecta|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Andrew Bell is teh awesome. I don't know him personally, but his art gives me a porno class erection. As big as a baby's arm holding an apple, I says. Veiny, throbbing and slobbering at the mouth like a rabid dog...
Jesus. What the hell am I saying? I've turned something as innocent as a t-shirt about a monkey into something much much worse. I need to see a doctor and figure out what's wrong with my head.
I mean, seriously. What the fuck is wrong with me?
$17.00 | Credit | URL|W|P|111291936302365761|W|P|Monkey|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
There's something about a basic tee with a lone camouflage tree that tickles my fancy. And I feel that if I pontificate on it's beauty and simplicty any more than I have to, I'll have missed the point.
$24.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111282087116872740|W|P|Freshness|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Some of our female readers got all up on my nuts after I posted the Alice shirt yesterday. "Not every girl is into Disney and frilly pink shit," they said.
Keeping that in mind, I present you with Hold The Phone. It's a wonderful little something something for the gals who are into phreaking. New school VoIP h4x0rs and old school red/blue boxers are bound to love it. Of course, how many female phreakers are there? Twelve?
Well, uhm... I guess this shirt would be okay if you're one of those gals that talks on the phone a lot. Girls still do that, right? Most of the ones I know either IM or SMS me. *sigh* Whatever.
$32.00CAD | PayPal | URL|W|P|111274313791022744|W|P|Hold The Phone|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Our homey Drew from Toothpaste For Dinner has got a trio of shirts that he unveiled a few days ago. The one at left is probably my favorite one in the bunch, but they all reek of awesome. I mean, what's not to love about a shirtless guy in a sombrero, a short but sweet commentary on bad poetry and a cheeky piss take at clever t-shirts?
Nothing, that's what.
The only problem I've got with this run of shirts is that they're only being sold until April 10th. After that, they're gone forever. So if you like any of them, y'all best act fast.
$15.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111272758675475876|W|P|My Other T-Shirt...|W|P|boogah@gmail.com
Kitta was kind enough to drop us a mail and remind us that we've been sleeping on our female readership lately. It's not that we don't have any women's shirts to display, it's just that nobody on staff possesses a vagina, so we sort of forget.
Thankfully, Kitta was nice enough to send along this one that's sure to pander to our pal Cory. No, Cory's not a cross dresser - at least we don't think he is - but he does have a gal named Alice. Being the sweet guy that he is, Cory always seems more than happy to buy his gal "Alice in Wonderland" related stuff. It's cute to the point of being sickening, but he's our boy... What can we say? Oh, I think we did just say something. *shrug*
Anyhow, we're a sucker for the design on this tee. Very four color comic book art. The fade at the bottom also happens to be a really good touch that brings everything together nicely. We've seen stuff like this go for a lot more than $24.00. So yeah, we wouldn't call it a bargain. But we do feel safe in saying that you're not getting totally gouged.
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As sad as this is going to sound, I have a confession to make. My iPod is my life. Seriously, I don't know what I'd do without it. 20gb of reality altering tunes in my pocket.
So when Josh Spear pointed out this tee on Cool Hunting, I felt compelled to pick it up. Well, at least until I realized that my behemoth frame wasn't going to fit into a XL tee. Brown isn't really my color anyhow. C'est la vie.
$12.00 | PayPal | URL|W|P|111265164131403916|W|P|I [heart] My iPod|W|P|boogah@gmail.com