Bootleg Bart shirts were so prolific in the early ’90s they even made it to Mount Everest — kind of. If you were one of the few brave people who try to climb it every year then there’s no ...

Fugazi, for instance, always refused to license their name for T-shirts, which forced kids who still wanted to publicly claim allegiance to the band to spend the 90s walking around in bootleg ...

If our dads stanned bands like AC/DC and had a laundry basket’s worth of shirts to prove it, we have our own fandoms to wear with pride, now in all their giant-faced, campy ’90s glory.

Bootleg shirts are the purest window into a fan base’s psyche. Dan McQuade has been collecting these shirts all his life, and he’s showing them off at a one-night-only art show this week.

Nirvana not smiling after filing lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs over ‘Bootleg Grunge’ shirt by Kurt Schlosser on December 31, 2018 at 9:30 am Share 72 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...