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[RMJ12345]

Can someone please explain to me why it is douchey to wear the shirt of the band that you are seeing?

The best explanation I've gotten is that assholes at concerts will often do such a thing. But why is it douchey if you're being reasonable and wearing a shirt from the band that is performing?

[littlefallsmets]

I think it is just viewed as very obvious. Such as "everyone here is definitely down with the message of that shirt, else we would not have all paid fifty dollars to be there, make a non-redundant statement please".

I think it comes down to how people view the idea of clothes and what it means to make a statement with one's clothing.

Me, personally, I wear what's comfortable and like ladies to wear clothes that are tight and/or revealing and... beyond that, I have little opinion on such matters.

[KeithHernandez]

I think it is always douchey to make yourself a billboard.

Also, what LFM said.

Also, please don't wear a shirt of a band that will make you cool at the other bands concert.  That is probably lamer than option 1.

[pmcd9]

Maybe people need something new to be pretentious about.

[theinevitable]

wait, so, now I can't wear any band's t-shirt at a concert?

[RMJ12345]

It seems like eventually the best option with clothes is always, "Fuck it, I will wear what I want."

[side_show]

Really, the best way to go would be to put a piece of tape above the band logo and write "I hate:" on it.  Then when people ask, you could be totally real about it"Yeah I hate ____, why - are they playing tonight or something?"  Now that is cool.

[CortJstr]

It is however acceptable to wear the shirt of a band playing at a festival show. Apparently that is saying to the promoters "I paid to see this band, not the other 26"

[pmcd9]

I thought you were only allowed to wear your Ramones or Misfits t-shirt.

[theinevitable]

one day...
one day I am going to ask one of those people "what is your favorite ramones song? I love them!"
or even "which album is your favorite?"

THEY WILL NOT KNOW BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW WHO THE RAMONES ARE
I WILL WIN BECAUSE MY BLOOD PRESSURE WILL BE HIGHER UPON LOOKING AT PARIS HILTON

[smick]

I think the notion largely goes back to "PCU" in which one fellow implores the other fellow not to "be that guy."

The bigger question here is one of relative douchery: Are you a larger douche for wearing the shirt of a band you enjoy to a collection of people who also enjoy that band, or is the larger douchery wrapped up in setting a limit on your life based on a movie from a couple dozen decades ago?

Don't let Jeremy Piven boss you around.

That said: I did not wear a Beastie Boys shirt to the Sasquatch music festival.   I wore (in this order) my "What we need more of is SCIENCE" shirt, my MC Front-a-Lot shirt, and then I finished with my Social Distortion shirt.

The Social Distortion shirt is my biggest shirt oops.   I wore it to a Campfire USA event.  All havin' the little kids running around, while I have a picture of a chained up pin-up lady on my chest.  The special ladyfriend gave me such a scold!  Even now, when I think to wear it to bars I pull my hand away just before grabbing it, as though the shirt might be white-hot, or produce some kind of behavioral modification shocks.  "OH NO! We dare not even gaze at the FORBIDDEN SHIRT!"

[Drastic Action]

Sometimes I will notice that I am wearing both a t-shirt and hoodie by the same band.  Showing up attired as such to a concert by this band would seem..  a little fanboyish.  The only thing worse would be to have socks and underwear with that band's logo, as well.

I think wearing band shirts to concerts is actually quite interesting.  You get to see just how many Gogol Bordello fans are also fans of ska, and so on; it is fun to see the correlations of different bands and genres.

[theinevitable]

I can never find t-shirts of bands I like. So, if I show up in a t-shirt of a band, it would be a bizarre coincidence if it were the band playing.

Basically I am constantly telling people "no, I don't' really like Rilo Kiley that much." (that is basically the only shirt I have for a band which is still in existence.)

[V-Adore]

I think the notion largely goes back to "PCU" in which one fellow implores the other fellow not to "be that guy."

Is this actually the origin of the phrase "don't be that guy?" I ask because it was the go-to equivalent to "do not be such as a crap dude" when I was in college, and while I've seen PCU, I wasn't sure whether it was from that movie in specific or a more generalized expression.

The Social Distortion shirt is my biggest shirt oops.   I wore it to a Campfire USA event.  All havin' the little kids running around, while I have a picture of a chained up pin-up lady on my chest.  The special ladyfriend gave me such a scold! 

Speaking as a former Campfire camper, that kind of transgressiveness was why I kept going back to Campfire camp year after year. At Campfire, we would go on real hiking trips and hear scary stories that were actually scary -- wouldn't a pin-up lady shirt only make it better?

[smick]

Speaking as a former Campfire camper, that kind of transgressiveness was why I kept going back to Campfire camp year after year. At Campfire, we would go on real hiking trips and hear scary stories that were actually scary -- wouldn't a pin-up lady shirt only make it better?

I know, right?!

Ladysmick (Black Mambazo?) disagrees!