Price: $812
Metal heads went digging through their basement bins when news spread that this 1984 tour shirt sold for big bucks on eBay. The band is known for their eye-catching designs featuring famed Maiden mascot Eddie The Head.
Price: $1,000
Available now on Etsy is this shirt from SST Records 1985 package tour featuring pioneering post-hardcore indie rock acts Husker Du, Minutemen and The Meat Puppets and featuring artwork by renowned underground artist Raymond Pettibon.
Price: $2,500
Currently available on eBay, this memento of the band’s tumultuous 1977 tour, marred by Roger Water’s dissatisfaction with the rock n’ roll lifestyle which inspired the concept album The Wall. The shirt’s full body design, which incorporates graphics from the Animals albums, is rare for concert shirts of this era.
Price: $3,000
A genuine piece of hardcore punk history, this button up shirt bears the logo of the infamous Venice, CA crossover band. It was hand drawn by esteemed skateboard artist Ric Clayton A.K.A. RxCx, and appeared in the artwork of the band’s groundbreaking 1983 debut album. It showed up on eBay several years ago though it’s ultimate fate is unknown.
Price: $3,000
Not an actual concert t-shirt, but one worn by members of the touring crew, this shirt was issued to employees of Dallas, Texas’ Showco sound equipment company. Employees did sound for the guitar smashing British foursome’s 1976 US tour and it is currently on sale on eBay.
Price: $9,235
Currently available from “Vintage T-Shirt Collective” Defunkd, this shirt was sold when the self-proclaimed “Greatest Rock N’ Roll Band In The World” performed at the 1976 Knebworth Festival in England.
Price: $10,000
Another Knebworth shirt, this ultra-rare tee commemorated the legendary English hard rock band’s final UK shows before the death of drummer John Bonham and were given out to friends of the band for entry to Zeppelin’s concert after-party. It was put up for auction by someone who had bought it from the original screen printing company and sold on eBay in 2011.
Price: $13,000
A joint venture between the pioneering hip hop group and the sneaker and apparel company, this shirt has been traded back and forth amongst vintage t-shirt houses for years and can now be found in the possession of Vintage T-Shirt Collective Defunkd.
Price: $14,288
Some shirts are rare because of the band or event they memorialize and others because of the people who wore them. This shirt of the New York noise rockers was famously sported by deceased Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain at one of his final concerts in 1994 and was sold by London’s Bonhams auction house.
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