I've heard that wearing NIN shirts to a NIN concert makes you 69% more likely to contract ass cancer.

branchuchan posted:

To each their own I don't care what I appear as. I just love the music and wanna wear my kewl new NIN-stuff.

I agree totally

It's when you try to communicate to the possible perceptions of others that you lose your authenticity. Not wearing a band shirt because it says you're better is still pandering to the idea of an audience and that makes you just as controlled as someone who does. Implied peer pressure says you shouldn't wear a certain shirt at certain moments? If you hear that voice fine, but do you have to follow it? Do you have to react against it? Maybe dress how you would as if no one was there.
Further, isn't there some irony to this band in particular having those same high-school-esque judgements? "I'd rather die, than give you control..."

If I don't feel like wearing a NIN t-shirt to a concert, I don't. But if I feel like it, I do. Easy as that. Why would I not wear the stuff? It's official, so at least Trent doesn't seem to disapprove. I buy the stuff because I like NIN (or any other band, regarding this topic), I go to the concerts because I like NIN, I buy the shirts at the concert. It has a small sentimental value, reminding me of the concert I bought it at and had a great time at. It fits the setting, I like it, why should I not wear it?

If someone came to a concert, "enclosed" head to toe in NIN-merch I'd think "ok, this is a bit too much" but a shirt or whatever? Who cares?

skitzy posted:

I wear my shirt usually after the show when I'm at home going to sleep.

Then after the initiation of wearing it to bed, I wear it almost everyday for about a week.

awesome policy. kudos

I'll stick to what I believe in - clothes do not define anyone as a person. So I don't really care what you wear on the next NIN concert - I will still be happy to see you all there And I'm not going to spend long hours in front of the mirror just to dress specially for the concert. Who cares what I wear? It's the music and fun during the concert that matters, right?

i personally think its irrelevant whether u wear an NIN tee or not.

whats really uncool though is people who actually think about it enough to have an opinion / discussion thread about it.

Never, under any circumstances, wear a band's t-shirt to that band's concert.

Everyone should know this.

scarlettstevens posted:

Never, under any circumstances, wear a band's t-shirt to that band's concert.

Everyone should know this.

why though? - theres no right or wrong way to dress

DickPuke posted:

I've heard that wearing NIN shirts to a NIN concert makes you 69% more likely to contract ass cancer.

Yeah, but 84% of statistics are made up on the spot... so we may never know the true cost.

votiVe posted:

A related article from The Onion that I think completely applies to this thread:

"COLUMBUS, OH—According to attendees at a rally held in Columbus' Capitol Theatre Monday, a John McCain supporter in his early 30s was envied and admired by onlookers for wearing an original navy blue "McCain 2000" T-shirt with a peeling logo, frayed neckline, and several holes in the sleeves. "When I saw his shirt, I was like, 'No way! That's totally vintage!'" said 24-year-old David Bennett, noting that it was not a pre-distressed "McCain 2000" shirt like the ones available at Urban Outfitters. "This guy's been a McCain fan since the beginning. He said the campaign kickoff speech in Nashua in '99 was f*cking mind-blowing." Sources reported that the hip McCain backer knew all the words to the Arizona senator's speeches, and silently mouthed McCain's entire energy policy while waving a cigarette lighter."

HAHA! The Onion rocks.



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I think it's one of the dumbest things when someone says you can't wear the shirt of the band you're going to see to the show. For there to be any rules and regulations on what you can't wear to the one place that's suppose to be the relief of all of real life's rules is fuckin gay.

Really? I mean, really? Who the fuck cares. Dude, there are like thousands of people wearing NIN shirts to a NIN show. Where in the world would be a better place to wear your NIN gear than at a NIN show? I think its dumb when you go to a NIN show in another bands shirt. I find it funny.

I don't like the idea of wearing the same shirt as tons of other people, so I had a custom NIN shirt made and I had the arms taken off so I can show off all my NIN tats.

I don't see a problem with it at all, SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for the band you are going to see, not another band.

this thread has inspired me. next show, I'll wear a pink polo with my collar popped.

I always wear NIN to a concert. Any concert. Always.

Can't believe I read through four pages of this. I think, like most other things in life people seem to argue about, it's the reason you decide to wear said article of clothing, and not the article of clothing itself that's the problem.

After about your fifth NIN show you begin to recognize the same people at every show you go to: the chick with four NIN tattoos (even that Sin one no one else in the world has) in the NIN shirt with a black skirt on that says NIN in silver sharpie, the uber-goth guy wearing the floor length trench coat and sunglasses inside the building (who probably disses NIN at his local club goth night for not being omggoth enough but secretly likes them yet must remain more goth than Jesus per usual), his female counter part the goth slut in fishnets and a skirt so short you just know she's getting a pelvic at least two or three times during hurt and a warm place (yet still manages to scream "wtf!" and not understand why it happens at every show), the rednecks or college guys who would probably call the average NIN fan a freak but are wearing the NIN shirt they bought at the show around said show so they fit in, and as of Year Zero, the AIR guys with patches and military shit on talking into walkie-talkies who are still living in a game because their own life is just way too sad and this way they look much cooler.

All of the above people are idiots, not because of what they wear, but why they wear it. The same goes for the guy in the Self Destruct T-shirt trying to impress people because he liked NIN way before everyone else did and the guy wearing the Skinny Puppy Rabies shirt because he doesn't want to wear a NIN shirt to a NIN show but wants to show that he likes similar artists and again, was there way before you were.

Wear what you wear because you want to wear it. Not because it will impress people, not to be different, not because you think the band might notice how cool you are and ask you onstage to help them close with "The Perfect Drug", not to fit in, and even not to break some imaginary @#$%& code that was probably invented at a grateful dead show by some guy named "Biscuit Can" or some guy sitting on a Camaro at a Foghat show who is now the creepy janitor at your school.

There are way too many sheep in this world and it's the reason we're in this stinking sewer we currently call existence. Sweet tap dancing Christ people, be yourself because you respect yourself too much to be anybody else. If you do that, then it won't matter what someone else thinks of you and discussions like this will cease to exist.