I've been watching the Michael Jackson shirts available on eBay even sense his death and some interesting trends have developed.

First, the number of shirts available has skyrocketed, when he died there were about 435 shirts listed as available, as of now there 4,888. More than 10x as many within a week. One great benefit of all the new listings is the variety of vintage Michael Jackson shirts that are available. Every phase of his career and every tour are represented.

Second, what fans are willing to pay for vintage Michael Jackson shirts has gotten out of hand. Just hours after his death there was a "signed" shirt available on eBay, the shirt has had less than ninety minutes remaining on the auction. Within a fifteen minutes the current bid went from $6.50 to over $150.00. There were multiple listings for the same style of shirt so I'm very skeptical about the authenticity of the autograph.

Lastly, I'm amazed at what sellers think their shirts are worth. Buy now prices from shirts that were $50.00 are now $800. There are numerous shirts with Buy Now prices at or over $1000. There are even a few crazy people out there listing shirts for five or ten thousand dollars. 1988 Bad Tour shirt, lowest bid $5,000 or Buy Now $10,000, strangely no bids; take a look here.

To check out the most expensive shirts available on eBay, click here.

Its hard to imagine that there is anything going on in the music world sense the death of Michael Jackson but amazingly there is. I'm sticking with the lite hearted though.

If you haven't heard of the band Chickenfoot you've certainly heard of the members. Chickenfoot is comprised of Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers and guitarist Joe Satriana. Formed for the first time in February 2008 you may have seem the on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on June 5th, 2009; the same day as the release of their self titled first album. If you missed their performance on Conan here is the link.

If your a fan of high-energy rock 'n roll you might want to check out Chickenfoot, maybe even pickup a Chickenfoot shirt available on ebay.

The original goal of Band Shirt Archive was to create a gallery of every band shirt ever made, by every band ever. While that goal maybe unachievable it's still a noble pursuit, and fun.

We have been seeing a lot of traffic to the site for Michael Jackson shirts in the past week. These are people who are obviously fans of Michael's and people interested in his shirts. We should take this opportunity to collect image of every Michael Jackson shirt ever made to save them for history.

Adding a shirt is really very easy, I'll break it down for you.
1) Take pictures of your band shirt.
2) Signup for a Band Shirt Archive account (we don't spam, or even have a newsletter yet)
3) Go to the Add A Shirt page.
4) Fill out the form with the shirt's information.
5) Click "Upload" button.
6) Confirm the shirts information and click the "Confirm" button.

You've just successfully helped preserve a piece of music history.