Nah, you need to step your metal shirt game up. It's all about the obsecure or offensive.

I don't really care though. I just wear a band shirt if I'm a huge fan of the band. Now I want to get a Carly shirt, if they exist.

Plus I know zero obscure bands/artists anyway.

**** you, if you don't have a Slayer shirt then you're a ****ing poseur. Either Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, or Judas Priest would be an acceptable substitute so long as the shirt wasn't from Hot Topic or Spencer's. That's just entry-level ****, bro.

How many people wearing Slayer shirts actually listen to Slayer though? I was at an H&M the other day with my friends and they had Slayer shirts there. I like wearing my Darkthrone/Pig Destroyer/etc shirts because whenever I go to a record store I end up having a 15 minute discussion about the band on my shirt with the cashier.

I got mine from Pulp, if you've heard of it. Oh ****, maybe I am a poseur.

Which is why I specified that they can't be from Hot Topic or Spencer's. Any other teeny bopper store should be assumed to be likewise illegitimate. Although that's kind of a fun trip that the world's foremost Satanic band has clothing in H&M... and Slayer probably signed off on that too... Well I can't be too mad. They probably aren't millionaires after all.

And mine came from a hole in the wall metal and punk record store run by a middle-aged OG with long, possibly unwashed hair who wears old, grungy band shirts with the sleeves crappily cut off. That was the first place I ever saw Songs About ****ing too. If I'd known that it was a legit record I would have picked it the **** up at 16, but you live and learn. The point is that I couldn't be more legit.
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But the issue is, with so many of the Hot Topic ones around, how do you know if they're legit into the band? If I saw someone in a Maiden shirt I wouldn't feel compelled to strike up a conversation with them because chances are they've heard 1 or 2 albums, but if they're wearing a Bathory shirt? You bet I am.