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.

It's no secret that all things Jackson are hot right now. Michael's music his topping the charts once again, the entertainment industry paid it respects in a big way at the recent BET awards; and Janet and her brothers may do a tribute tour. Sense I've already covered Michael and his shirts a couple times I decided to cast the spotlight on Janet.

There is a really nice variety of vintage Janet Jackson shirts available on eBay most of her tours from the 90s are represented. This is the shirt that really caught my attention though. It's a shirt from her 1998 world tour but its nearly the same image as the cover of the 1993 Rolling Stone where she appeared topless.

You know, if you consider that magazine article and this shirt, it's almost like she was dying to flash America. She just waited for the 2004 Super Bowl to do it. Now where's that graphic on a t-shirt?

If your interested in checking out the shirt pictured above, here is the link to eBay.

These days, it doesn't take long for new shirts to hit the market. Within twelve hours of Michael Jackson's death there were newly minted shirts memorializing his life. Six hours later there were four times as many shirts. As of now there are ten or more shirt designs like the one to the [...]

It is just now being reported by TMZ that the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50 from cardiac arrest. Read the brief TMZ report here. According to the report, Jackson suffered the attack at home and was dead before the paramedics arrived.

Despite the recent controversy in Jackson's [...]

I like to check out Billboard.com to see what's hot in the music industry and I noticed something interesting about the Black Eyed Peas. They currently occupy three #1 slots on the charts. The Black Eyed Peas are #1 on the Billboard 200 with "The E.N.D.", #1 on the Hot 100 with "Boom Boom Pow", #1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart with "I Gotta [...]

This is a blog I've been looking forward to writing for quite a while now and thanks to Kathy Rudd I finally have some Todd Snider shirts to talk about. She was kind enough to photograph her TS shirt collection and email them to me.

I discovered Todd Snider listening to World Cafe right after the release of his album East Nashville [...]

I was browsing shits on eBay as I like to do from time to time and I came across this gem. Its a shirt depicting the drum kits from such bands as Van Halen, Grateful Dead and The Who.

Although the auction ends tonight, the auction listing will remain so you can check it out in more detail. I'll [...]

The 8th installment of the mighty Bonnaroo festival is officially over. Every interstate rest stop within 100 miles of Manchester will be filled with dirty festival goers looking for the first flush toilet and running water they've seen in days. Getting that layer of grime off before hitting the road for 12 hours [...]

	In 1976 Jefferson Airplane released their album "Spitfire" as a follow up to their #1 ranked album "Red Octopus"; Spitfire actually topped the charts at #3. Here is the shirt released with the album cover graphic on the front. This shirt is often available on eBay for $100 to $150, depending on condition.
	Here is a 1979 Jefferson Starship shirt from their tour supporting album "Freedom At Point Zero". The shirt doesn't have the album graphic like the shirt above does. but it is a nice shirt with a cool graphic of what could only guess is a starship.
	1981 Jefferson Starship "Modern Times" Shirt. This shirt doesn't have the album art on it, but if you look close, it appears to be the same woman on the cover and shirt. The back of the shirt has the six band members and the tour name and year. Take a look at the back of the shirt here.
	Another 1981 Jefferson Starship Modern Times tour shirt. Here we see a return of the dragon theme that we saw on the 1976 shirt. The back also has a cool graphic on it. We don't have this shirt in the archive so you'll have to check it out on eBay, click here to have a look.

Phish fans, I'm making it my summer job to monitor the web for great 2009 Phish tour shirts and let you know when new shirts become available.

2009 really has been a good year for phish lot shirts. Here is the latest entry into best 2009 Phish Shirt contest, Revenge Of The Lizards. I may have to go out on a limb and say this [...]

Ladies, gentlemen and hippies it's that time again. That's right, its Bonnaroo time. Just about now, masses of fans are doing their final preparations for the epic trip that is Bonnaroo. The masses of people, the nearly never ending car ride and of course, the traffic; oh lord the traffic. Oh ya, there also the music. Hours and hours of glorious music!

As [...]