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Being an avid music fan, I have attended many concerts throughout my life.  I am lucky enough to live near a big city with lots of great stadiums and smaller music venues that attract all of the top shows and tours in the country.  During my junior high and high school years, I religiously bought t-shirts commemorating each of the concerts that I went to.  Although there were usually a variety of shirt designs available, I inevitably bought the same style time after time, with the band name on the front and all the cities and dates of the tour on the back.

I eventually built up quite a collection of t-shirts, which, I am sad to say, I don't have anymore.  However, I can still recall exactly how some of my favorite shirts looked.

One of my favorites was from a Bush concert.  It was the 1997 Razorblade Suitcase tour, and the shirt I bought was a long-sleeved black number.  It had a blue flower on the front with the tour dates and cities on the back.  I liked that shirt because it didn't look like a concert shirt at first glance (at least not from the front).  I rarely ever buy black t-shirts, so that one definitely stood out in my wardrobe.  I wore it a lot and got several years of usage out of it.

Another great concert t-shirt that I had was from Lollapalooza in 1992.  That year, the concert featured Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Ice Cube, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.  Anyway, the t-shirt had Lollapalooza logos on it, as well as small logos from the bands.  The shirt didn't really look that good because it was just too busy with all those different logos.  But I loved it because that was one of the best concerts I have ever seen, and that shirt was an awesome memento of the occasion.

Finally, I have to include the t-shirt I had from the INXS Kick tour.  That was the very first concert that I was allowed to go to without parental supervision, and it was therefore very memorable for me.  I went with a group of 5 friends, and we often ended up wearing our concert t-shirts on the same days at school later in the year.  The shirt itself was kind of plain.  It just had INXS in huge letters on the front.  I think the "N" was black while the other letters were red.  Then it had the word KICK on the back, and again, I think the "I" was black and the others were red.  Plus, I believe it had a picture of the lead singer on the side.

If you like to go to concerts, then you should think about starting your own t-shirt collection.  You'll probably discover, as I did, that the memories the t-shirts represent will soon be more important than how the t-shirt actually looks or functions in your wardrobe.  If you do start a collection, hopefully you'll hang on to it longer than I did to mine!