people who wear shirts of bands they don't know

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In college at age 17 (I am now 23) I was very naive and thought that, if I saw someone in a band top, I could assume they were a fan of the band.

I met a girl who wore a Nirvana hoody to college every day. After a few days I said to her, "What's your favourite Nirvana album"? She just shrugged "I haven't heard their albums". I said "Do you like Nirvana?" She said "I've heard them at the Dog and I like it". ("the dog" was a rock nightclub). "I've heard 'entertain us' at the Dog. It's a good song."

Another time I met a girl who always wore a Korn top. I said "I just got the first Korn CD, I like it." She said "oh yeah, I havent heard any of their CDs". I said "why do you wear the top then?" She said "All my friends wear one, I like it. It's a cool top like my friend's."

What do you think? Does this type of thing annoy you?

YES, ppl at my highschool are CONSTANTLY doing this for the same lame a-- reasons!! !

Yeah that's annoying. It's like listening to a band you don't know that well and your listening to them because your friends are.

Something I wrote back in 2005 in an Email to a friend in Pittsburgh with whom I share musical tastes...

I dunno... I don't see it as being too different from some Japanese chick in Tokyo wearing an Engrish shirt that says "I hate myself and want to die", without having the slightest clue what the shirt says.
Or the recently-popular trend of non-Japanese-speaking Caucasians getting various kanji tattooed on themselves simple because it looks 'exotic', completely ignorant of their new ink saying something akin to 'Eat at Joes'.
Idiots seem to consistently find new ways to show off their idiocy. I just wish they'd all wear a label so I could see 'em coming and avoid them.

There's a lot of people I see who wear Nirvana shirts. I asked one what her favourite song was, and she said,"Smells like teen spirit." I then asked her which album she liked the best, and she said she didn't know the names of any, and that she's heard two of their songs.

I hate that sh#t, off the topic of music, i have been a fan of the custom auto pinstriper 'von dutch" for years.
In recent years i have seen his logo and name all over the cheap screen printed t shirts at markets and everyone seems to buy it, when i ask them if they like von dutch's work they think I am stupid and its a clothing label. why are some people so dumb?

Its all good if they like a song or some songs and wear the top, I don't see why you'd need to be hardcore, but it's a bit sad wearing it if you haven't even heard the songs

I don't care about that, it's their choice.

It's like peoples who wear Harley clothes and don't know anything about those bikes.

P.S.: I already wore a Point Zero T-Shirt and I'm still looking for info about that band.

P.S.: I know what my avatar mean, it's my first name in chinese !

I used to reallt hate this as I could never imagine myslef wearing a t-shirt of a band I didnt like but then I realised something.
Lots of people dont like music well not so much they dont like it just they dont take it as seriously as
me (and other music nerds) do.
Wearing a band shirt to them is not a big deal its just a shirt.
All over the world you will see people wearing new york yankeys hats or manchester united replica shirts that couldnt name one player on the team.
Music has become or maybe always was just a fashion assceory to some people something on in the backround while they work or to dance to in a nightclub.
We shouldnt get anoyed at these people we should pity them as music in my opinion is the greatest of all art forms and has an ability to covey a varity of emotions with such imidiacy nothing else can match if people think its not important and something just to be put on a t shirt to fit in with mates its thier loss.