badteethcomics wrote:
Funny you say that - seems like we are stuck with shithouse RVCA designs here in Australia as well. It's like the Artist Network Program doesn't even exist anymore.. We have nothing but shirts with crazy huge neck holes and tank tops with the RVCA logo on there.
That last Barry McGee shirt was an old one from 2003 or so? If they have re-released it I'll need to hunt down a replacement. One of my all time favourite t-shirts to wear around town!
Ditto in the US. My entire fucking life I've had to shop in the UK (Europe) or Japan, seemingly the only two places on the planet that get cool things. Why is that? Here in the US they water everything down to non risk design, aka just logos or something dumb like skulls- we don't want to freak anyone out! Either that or it's over design where more is less. It's ridiculous. Biggest buncha plain janes on the planet! I blame the public having zero fashion sense.
I got the 3d Indian head from 2K 7 years ago, Larceny from SFMOMA, and the 2K yellow one with the odd drawing of Mcgee as a kid. They're all pretty worn out so I've spent the last few weeks searching for new tees by him and found all these cool versions but all sold out and Japan only. RVCA was pretty lame when I contacted them. I even said in my email that they would probably give me a generic answer saying "It's sold out and there is no plan to restock it" They did exactly that! Then I replied saying "How come Japan gets 8 versions of this shirt?" To which he just replied the design and art team makes those decisions. Sucky decisions if you ask me...
