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Photography/Archives-Canadian Rock Band Tees on Display At CBC Radio 3
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- Feb 20,2009 -
Photography/Archives-Canadian Rock Band Tees on Display At CBC Radio 3’s Flickr Page
CBC Radio 3, one of the few outlets that truly independent and high quality independent Canadian music of all genres offers airplay in North America (aside from the always independent, as in autonomous minded, College and Community Radio) - has put together a neat little archive for members of the public to post artwork in the form of the ever iconographic and brilliant tee shirt.
Tees represent so much to the independent artist traversing the continents. From being a form of self expression, to be that *little bit* of extra merchandise that helps the struggling artists pay for gas fumes to get to the next city, tees have a long and storied history. Some are true pieces of art - some are generic crap to shill to all ages audiences - and some represent the first attempts at a band carving out a visual niche for themselves among an already saturated and exploited market.
Just read the histories of bands like van Halen, or the sad “business-side” of the industry to learn what a seemingly benign item like the tee-shirt has brought with it in the forms of bottom-liners, weasels, corporations and gangs (same difference) and you’ll start to shudder.
Unless of course you’re already familiar with these histories.
As Krusty the Klown once exclaimed about his tee shirt sales (when the Simpsons was a relevent show) “That’s the sweetest plum!”…
Have look at CBC Radio 3’s Canadian Rock Tee Museum HERE:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/840079@N21/
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