t-shirt heroes

Katz & Goldt

2012-01-15T13:19:00.002+01:00

I’m currently studying quite a lot which means little time out of the house which means few t-shirt findings. But it also means lots of procrastination and stupid to funny findings on the internet; like this gem from Katz & Goldt.

Schrödinger’s cat

2012-01-06T17:45:00.003+01:00

Watch out, a quantum mechanics joke. Thanks Felix!

Tits or destiny?

2012-01-03T20:39:00.000+01:00

I must say I was impressed with your coolness.

Du hast Angst vorm Hermannplatz

2012-01-02T20:31:00.002+01:00

I spent the turn of the year (do you really say it like that? sounds weird/epic) in Berlin and ate a Döner Kebab at Mustafa’s. Very nice. We lived close to Hermannplatz but it wasn’t exactly scary...

Rülps*

2012-01-02T20:27:00.004+01:00

This was on New Year’s Eve. There is something disgusting on my lens from I don’t know where. Please do imagine everything a bit whiter and less blurry.

*sagte der Gockel und schwamm davon.

Disneyfication of the world

2012-01-02T20:26:00.001+01:00

You told me to remember you that it was a very good night!

Techno music

2012-01-02T20:12:00.004+01:00

Spent most of the New Year in a club called V.C.F. which I really liked. I want this t-shirt so bad but forgot where it’s from... Maybe New Year’s memory will come back some day?

Night of scary necks I

2011-12-24T21:55:00.006+01:00

Yesterday I felt like a bizarre kind of vampire photographer, everyone was offering their throats to me.

I usually prefer the non-violent type of shirts (except for this, maybe), but yours is just too good. Mona Lisa’s mystery finally revealed.

Night of scary necks II

2011-12-24T21:51:00.002+01:00

Some of you might know this guy (or rather the contents of his wardrobe) already; here’s something new.

Jesus recommends.

2011-12-10T19:34:00.001+01:00

I guess beer doesn’t give you the answers, either, but it makes you forget the questions.

Velo love

2011-12-10T19:31:00.003+01:00

This birthday party was crowded with biking people.

The blog exists. Q.E.D.

Aha! Let’s see who didn’t wash their shirts today!

2011-12-10T19:27:00.004+01:00

Also, there was black light which looks good with white shirts (good for him), but shows every piece of lint on black shirts (too bad for me).

Moose invader

2011-12-10T19:25:00.001+01:00

I don’t know what to write under a picture with a space invading elk.

It’s a bit moustachy outside.

2011-12-10T19:19:00.001+01:00

Basti in the sky with moustaches! Haha.

Heart is a beating drum

2011-11-30T23:00:00.002+01:00

The Kills yesterday. The shirt reminds me of this. And of course I have to show off my own Kills shirt again! Sorry for ego tripping.

So what!

2011-11-26T22:12:00.003+01:00

This was René Vaitl at seven in the morning, everyone looking fresh and healthy.

I have nothing to add to this message.

All hail Hufflepuff house

2011-11-26T22:03:00.002+01:00

Hufflepuff was never really the cool house ... until now!

Illustrated by a certain Mr Grunau. It’s perfect.

That was a horror that was a horror

2011-11-23T18:18:00.003+01:00

I don’t usually do label-promoting shirts, but this one’s so nice! That was at The Horrors concert which was very short and uninspired ... Shame, I love this band so much.

Lucasfilm

2011-11-23T18:17:00.001+01:00

Someone is obviously wishing to remain anonymous.

Peanut butter, motherfucker!

2011-11-16T23:04:00.003+01:00

I went to check out Munich’s annual book show. This one has to be good. Thumbs up, Vice!

Less Dr Pepper, more Slow Food.

2011-11-16T23:01:00.001+01:00

Slow Food has a youth organisation in Germany now. Cool idea, I hope they are a bit more political than the grown-ups who seem mainly epicurean.

Trainiere mit uns.

2011-11-09T08:54:00.001+01:00

Cool shirt ... this is a band I feel I’ve completely missed out on. Any hints which songs I should give a try?

Fo shizzle ma dizzle

2011-11-07T07:24:00.003+01:00

By the way, I found an online translator that will translate anything into Snoop Dogg language.

I’m running low, low, low, low, low

2011-11-01T22:25:00.003+01:00

Modeselektor yesterday. I’m not totally convinced of the new album, yet every song worked perfectly at the concert (except the boring Thom Yorke one, ha ha). Mr Bronsert, Mr Szary, I Love You!

Botanical Anakin

2011-11-01T22:18:00.003+01:00

It’s perfect!

I would have thought he’d use a lightsaber for the tedious work.

I don’t drink, I’m an athlete.

2011-11-01T21:47:00.006+01:00

I went past a strange store the other day (as strange as an offering of American sports equipment can get to a non-sporty non-American underequipped person like me) and saw this shirt.

Maybe there is more to American sports than I thought...?

Mario

2011-10-29T16:12:00.002+02:00

Pretty cool at first sight ...

pretty fucking brilliant at second sight!

In Rome, ages ago.

2011-10-15T21:29:00.002+02:00

Finally I get to upload this picture! I took a night train to Rome and didn’t carry my digital camera. Developing the film took a while ... Awesome bugs!

Day of movie-referential shirts pt. 1

2011-10-07T23:04:00.007+02:00

Chic Polly wearing a Polly shirt (indeed!), it refers to »Who are you, Polly Magoo?« from 1966. Glad to know there were movie fan shirts before Star Wars.

Day of movie-referential shirts pt. 2

2011-10-07T23:02:00.002+02:00

Dear God, I loved this film as a kid. Maybe I should see it again? Or will it turn out to be super-ridiculous in retrospect?

A Summer Wasting

2011-09-22T10:30:00.002+02:00

Shopping for epic trash yesterday at »Halle 2«. Yours is the first Belle and Sebastian shirt on this blog! It’s weird but I like it; especially the type. Did you find something? We bought glasses and vases.

Totally trippy

2011-09-20T20:58:00.001+02:00

I like this print very much. Friday at Südstadt.

Lahm

2011-09-11T12:29:00.002+02:00

Went to see a football match, so you can guess what the shirts were like ... ah, well. Bayern München won 7:0, man.

Detective Conan!

2011-09-11T12:19:00.008+02:00

Finally, a really cool subway photo again; it’s been a long time since the last.

Must admit I know little about Manga, but I adore Detective Conan. I’ve never been able to guess the ending of a case yet ...

Haha, cute!

Come here and show me

2011-09-11T12:16:00.004+02:00

In the evening, we went to see Cansei de Ser Sexy. The show was not bad, but I don’t quite buy their wannabe punk attitude ...

It’s not that red, it’s not that red

2011-09-11T12:14:00.001+02:00

I only got into Einstürzende Neubauten some weeks ago. Now I’m discovering them song by song. What a weird shirt!

As long as they don’t walk

2011-09-09T16:44:00.002+02:00

It’s Fantasy Film Festival in Munich! Well, it was. That was on Monday. I moved apartments and was without internet connection again ...

We watched the first episode of The Walking Dead (the comic was apparently turned into a television series in the US), it’s pretty damn good!

What I see

2011-09-04T19:47:00.004+02:00

Here (and on the next page too!) are t-shirt heroes I met all over Portugal. No heroines, though, because Portuguese Girls Don’t Wear T-Shirts. This sounds like a pretty good band name, actually - even though it might not be taken as seriously as Black Flag.

Introducing ... Les Jolies Filles

2011-09-04T19:44:00.003+02:00

He bought the shirt and named his band after it! Normally it’s the other way round ... you should tell this story to music magazine interviewers when you are famous. They will love it.

Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht

2011-09-04T19:38:00.005+02:00

A German car in Portugal! (Oh, I just noticed it is probably not that special an event, what with all those German car labels ... don’t ask me about it, I hate cars. Will tolerate old Volkswagen, though.)

Record dog

2011-09-04T19:34:00.004+02:00

Porto’s riverside ... I hope you found some hours of sleep later on!

I must admit I was tempted to quote this tacky song from ages ago that goes »Who let the dogs out«. Why the hell is it so catchy? I will probably remember it my whole miserable life!

Pink Floyd

2011-09-04T19:30:00.003+02:00

Trippy shirt! If you want to check out his photos from Portugal and everything else, go here.

Futbol, futbol

2011-09-04T19:26:00.004+02:00

Choose football without racism. I’d even go as far as saying: Choose everything without racism. Did you find your hostel in the end? We got lost ...

Presley in Porto

2011-09-04T19:22:00.005+02:00

Wow, look at the train station - blasting! This Elvis cover is indeed iconic, check out a collection of copycats over the years here.

The four Beatles from Liverpool ... world domination achieved.

2011-09-04T19:16:00.003+02:00

The Beatles are like these white plastic chairs and shitty Rihanna songs on the radio: No matter how far you travel, you cannot escape them.

Survived scary banana New York

2011-09-04T19:05:00.003+02:00

Together with the one, two others, this makes three good New York related shirts on this blog. Ever! I really am a critical judge.

Tintin

2011-09-04T19:01:00.002+02:00

At the hostel in Baleal, where I tried to surf (it is immense fun). The shirt is awesome, my compliments to your mother!

2011-08-03T15:38:00.003+02:00

Yesterday was The Day of the White T-Shirts? For me a white shirt is instant summer, like songs with handclaps or ice-cream or drinking beer on sidewalks or ...

Look it has got a monster comic on it! We couldn’t quite make out the sense but ... let’s call it art.

Bicycle, bicycle, you are my bicycle

2011-08-03T15:25:00.002+02:00

The newspapers wrote this was our »48 hour summer« and indeed, it’s starting to rain this very moment. The Be Your Own Pet shirt has autographs on it but sadly they’re too faded to see in the blazing sunlight.

Font’n’Roll lifestyle

2011-08-01T10:01:00.002+02:00

Yeah! Check this out as well.

Salvador, Santa, Charlie

2011-07-20T11:32:00.003+02:00

Here are the photos from Melt! festival – this was during Miss Kittin’s set, I think. Great beards over the centuries ... Yours is not bad, either!

We make up what we can’t hear, then we sing all night

2011-07-20T11:28:00.004+02:00

I love the Goo cover but this is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest t-shirt designs ever. Ever. Sometimes I’m not sure what I like better about Sonic Youth: their music or their band shirts?

Fuck off!

2011-07-20T11:27:00.002+02:00

Umm, not you. I meant Berlusconi. How sadistic is it to sell masks with his face?

New Order

2011-07-20T11:25:00.003+02:00

New Order! Why couldn’t New Order play instead of awkward Beady Eye? I am gradually getting to like these rather historic bands as festival headliners after seeing Kraftwerk, DAF and Pulp, all of whom have lost nothing of their greatness.

Alison and ... oh, no, wait.

2011-07-20T11:23:00.003+02:00

At first I thought it was The Kills on your shirt! It feels a bit tragic to be part of a generation who knows the people recycling styles rather than the originals. But I luckily have a cool friend who pays tribute to Siouxsie as well as Robert while I keep on the retro side.

The Streets lighter

2011-07-20T11:22:00.001+02:00

It was actually The Streets’ last concert in Germany before their final separation. I was rather unimpressed, though. Mike Skinner could’ve skipped the ballads and pondering whining songs and it would have been a great half an hour of concert.

I will not make a joke related to Weather Girls

2011-07-20T11:20:00.002+02:00

On Sunday, I would have preferred a shower of multicoloured men to the freaking weather we had. There was a small river flowing in my tent and a sea gushing in my shoes.

Drink responsibly

2011-07-20T11:17:00.001+02:00

After the well-known »Friends don’t let friends drive drunk« and »Friends don’t let friends blog drunk«, here comes more useful advice.

As seen on CCTV

2011-07-20T11:16:00.001+02:00

I once heard that in some places in Britain you get told via loudspeakers to take off your hoody or not to spit your chewing gum on the streets. I sincerely hope it was an Orwell story and is not actually happening. Yes, I have something to hide. My privacy.

Public disorder? I’ll give you public disorder!

2011-07-20T11:14:00.006+02:00

This is the shirt I’ve been working on.

I finished it last minute, neglecting my packing and I’m not very satisfied with it ... but hey, at least I have a The Streets shirt now, which is essential to every wardrobe.

Voller Gedanken

2011-07-20T11:10:00.004+02:00

Leaving after three days of excellent music and mad dancing.

I love this Katz & Goldt shirt! That is what it feels like with most people, most of the time, isn’t it? But luckily there’s some things you can always say.

Disorder...?

2011-07-14T19:40:00.003+02:00

I tried these letters on my test shirt but didn’t like the look. The finished shirt is a tribute to someone I’ll see at Melt! festival this weekend. I will upload a photo on Monday, you have until then to guess who it is... And let’s keep our fingers crossed for t-shirt friendly weather!

New York confuses me

2011-07-09T12:34:00.003+02:00

I asked a friend from Wales to bring me the special Jack White issue of the NME (it’s pretty expensive to buy imported magazines here). You may call me obsessed if you like. This obviously selfmade t-shirt should make up for it, though.

Jaws (aka Why are English film titles always better than the German version?)

2011-07-09T10:16:00.004+02:00

The shirt looks a bit orange in this photo, but it is alarmingly red in real life. You cannot look away from it because you’re afraid of being bitten any moment. Very distressing!

Desperate skatergirls

2011-07-09T10:08:00.004+02:00

How were the fries? I’m a bit scared of that restaurant you were in because they offer low-fat fries. What is the sense in that? It’s like low-water lakes. Or low-skate boyfriends.

Freaking perfect! Lichtenstein would approve.

Less surf than Viña, but lovely still.

2011-06-28T20:48:00.003+02:00

We went across Starnberger See by boat today! The Viña del Mar shirt I inherited from my aunt who went to Chile in the 80’s. It’s my shirt for sunny outdoorsy days.

Whoah, it’s summer finally! I declare the start of T-Shirt Season! (Cannot have too many exclamation marks on a glorious day like this.)

Scratchy shirt

2011-06-27T18:26:00.003+02:00

After a presentation on the influence of comics on video games and before a speech on literature in comics ... who can guess where I was? Yup, Munich's Comic Festival.

Geh mit ihnen.

2011-06-27T18:16:00.002+02:00

On Thursday I worked as director's assistant at an award party thing (don't be fooled, Director's Assistant is an interesting name for the idiot that runs around, fetches stuff or tapes things). Anyway, Moop Mama played and saved my night, being the only good music and the only mentally sane people around! Thanks.

Check your head

2011-06-19T19:56:00.003+02:00

How was X-Men? Did you remember Magneto's former name?

Malen nach Zahlen, wir schaffen es nicht.

2011-06-18T11:41:00.001+02:00

How come everything with dinosaurs on it is automatically cool?

The ghost who walks, she's on the prowl...

2011-06-14T19:10:00.004+02:00

Theatron festival... a bit rainy, though. We had a really nice May and now it seems like summer is over. In this photo it's Slim Cessna's Auto Club playing - I would laugh at their band name but I can't, being a fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

D'you want to know the latest Jack White gossip? (If you're like »NO!« now - bad news because I can't hear you.) Jack White and Karen Elson separated and had a divorce party. Wicked!

What do you see in this picture?

2011-06-05T18:46:00.002+02:00

I am becoming a notorious camera-forgetter, I should tie it to my wrist in the future. The combination of Rorschach test and the joker is just genius! I love it.

Nein bloß nicht.

2011-05-30T19:52:00.004+02:00

There was another protest against nuclear power plants on Saturday. Now really is the time to speak up. Politicians are fearing for their popularity/election results and feeling very environmentally friendly all of a sudden.

Killer shirts

2011-05-30T19:37:00.001+02:00

Good shirts, sad message.

Last year's Comicsalon

2011-05-26T21:18:00.003+02:00

That guy next to you is biting your style.

Don't forget this year's Comic festival in Munich - 23. to 26. June - see you all. I might just be the mad person dressed up as V.

Got drunk off all of grandma's schnaps, got caught running from the cops

2011-05-15T20:45:00.003+02:00

Black Lips yesterday is now officially the number one bruise-causing concert (followed by the legendary Bonaparte concert - see November 2008 on 2nd and Wolfmother on 3rd rank and discounting an unpleasant Eagles Of Death Metal concert during which I felt very near to death by crushing). The photo has weird to no perspective because I could hardly move after the show.

Cute rabbit vs giant killer insect

2011-05-14T19:45:00.004+02:00

Two thirds of you will probably vomit when looking at this shirt and reading the word cute. But I had to buy this shirt! It's sooo cute!

I try to make up for the cuteness with this photo. We went to check out the Zoologic Collection of Bavaria today, which has 20 million objects, like a room full of antlers or a hundred different colibris. Astounding!

You can't quit me, baby

2011-05-12T20:11:00.000+02:00

Queens of the Stone Age on Tuesday; I did see them after all. My camera went out of electricity though (how do you say this in English?) - I had to use my friend's phone again. Very sad, as there were so many good shirts around... Did you like the concert? I enjoyed it, even though Josh Homme was in bored-grumpy-routine mode.

Hedgehog variations

2011-05-12T20:02:00.000+02:00

Damn damn now you can't read the text! Who can guess what they are. Top left is hedgehog on a rainy day?

Phobiaphobia

2011-05-12T19:55:00.000+02:00

A lexicon to the world of neurosis... You were really drunk, eh? Well done.

Grinderman

2011-05-12T19:48:00.000+02:00

A very accurate portrait of the band! Few shirts around with Nick Cave on them. PS. I wonder how they thought of »Grinderman« as a serious band name?

Genius, destined to slackerdom

2011-04-30T17:17:00.004+02:00

At first I couldn't read the shirt properly and was not sure whether it said »slacker« or »hacker«. Did you find something? I bought a huge painting I had to drive home on my rusty bicycle. Last year I bought a top hat.

Bad music for bad people with great style.

2011-04-30T17:14:00.001+02:00

Wicked! How many people did you kill, let rot for some years, then scrape the remaining flesh off and leave their bones to bleach in the sun for this outfit?

He says oh no no no no no

2011-04-16T12:12:00.004+02:00

Yesterday's Pete Doherty concert. Guess what? It was cancelled. That's three cancelled Munich shows and one show that consisted of Pete singing a Nazi hymn, then disappearing off the stage. Oh well. Let's hope for the next (concert, not Nazi hymn!). Have you ever been told you kinda look like young Carl Barât?

Turbojugend München?

2011-04-09T11:02:00.004+02:00

Tell me a Turbostaat song you like! I don't know them at all. Yet there are those fanatic young people wearing Turbostaat jackets and hats and being in a local Turbostaat division. Either it's a sect or this is a very good band.

Kyuss lives, on and on

2011-04-08T14:19:00.004+02:00

I have complained about Kyuss shirts already. But I like this one. Even if it does have a cactus on it. The Kyuss graphic designer seems to be an unimaginative guy, the tour poster and all the shirts I've seen so far have a cactus somewhere. Message to Kyuss designer: We got it. Desert Rock. Okay. Now drop the cactus, please.

Delikatessen

2011-04-08T14:10:00.002+02:00

Went to see Kaizers Orchestra on Tuesday. Very abundant show. Their support was also astonishing, check out Jarle Bernhoft. The Kaizers Orchestra shirt is pretty, but also a bit... morbid. I dunno.

Brain damage

2011-04-01T18:07:00.002+02:00

Thank you, now I can never eat an egg again without feeling like a Zombie. Haha.

Easy does it, they got something to say no to

2011-03-24T18:51:00.003+01:00

I'm not a born diplomat - only ranted about how I don't like the new Gorillaz stuff. Just to get this straight: They are one of my favourite bands ever. Fact. Your shirt is great. Period.

Paris Star

2011-03-22T10:42:00.002+01:00

My mother gave me this (a friend of hers had brought it from Paris as a souvenir) and asked whether I wanted to make fun of it on my blog...

Rap braucht Abitur

2011-03-21T10:53:00.004+01:00

We went mini-golfing yesterday. White Trash Sunday!

So I have to recommend yet again: A beloved friend of mine (and also a regular star on T-Shirt Heroes) brings us wisdom and advice - check out Alter Knabe. Probably the second best blog in the world?

Nuclear power? No thanks!

2011-03-17T21:50:00.003+01:00

The disaster with Japanese power plants has been a horrendous shock. On Monday, there were demonstrations all over the country; Fukushima has tragically shown the world that nuclear power belongs to the past and must make way for other energy sources.

I took the remains of her unwanted dress and made a face that I could bear to look at in the mirror

2011-03-17T21:10:00.005+01:00

A fittingly mad look! Why do I see so few Watchmen shirts? It's a brilliant comic (although that took me a while to realise; I read V for Vendetta first and loved it. Then I was overwhelmed by the bright colours and fucked-up superheroes of Watchmen).

This was at a clothes swap party where you bring your old stuff and can take what the others have brought. A flea market without paying, basically. Sadly, the Watchmen shirt was not for swapping, hm?

Your city's a sucker, my city's a creep

2011-03-12T11:22:00.003+01:00

Everybody, meet Jan, who played tick tack toe on his shirt and brings us Der München, a great blog full of advice on tasty parties, concerts, anything worth visiting in Munich. I want to recommend this blog to y'all and will put it up in the link list. (Oh and also have a look at their band questionnaires, I especially like those!)

Owls

2011-03-11T18:52:00.002+01:00

Today I finally post Wednesday's shirt: Owls and organic cotton! You score high (even the machine says »Yesssssss«).

You look so wasted... and baby, I know why.

2011-03-08T10:34:00.002+01:00

We went to see Mogwai yesterday. The average Mogwai concertgoer is 2 metres high, slightly balding, closes his eyes and nods his head fervently when the music goes wild.

Necrophilia

2011-03-08T10:25:00.001+01:00

Her friend has the corresponding »I fuck everything I kill« shirt.

I went to Berlin and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

2011-02-28T20:44:00.002+01:00

Nah, only joking. It's not lousy at all, I find it very pretty. And you are oficially the bravest person in Berlin, no one else wore a shirt that weekend. It was arctic.

The rhythm of darkened times

2011-02-21T11:55:00.002+01:00

I was glad to see the Black Angels again after they opened for Wolfmother last January, they sounded way better yesterday. The 13th Floor Elevators get lots of t-shirt coverage, all pyramid-related, of course.

The machine

2011-02-21T11:53:00.002+01:00

A brilliant design! I like Rage Against The Machine; they always play the same song, but it's a good song.