I was pretty much only posting this t-shirt because it gives me an opportunity to point out my massive new TV (52 glorious inches!), but then I actually gave it a decent look, and I realised that its actually rather cleverer (how can a word about something being smart make you sound so stupid when you say it?) than I first gave it credit for. The minimalist frontage with a standby ‘light’ and a jack for headphones, is strongly contrasted with the busy goings on at the back, although I was expecting the text on the back to reveal some kind of joke, some of the sockets being labeled with more human attributes than ‘video output’, for example, but I guess Olly wanted to take this down a more serious route. Well, as serious as you can get when you’re wearing a tee that tries to make you look like an AV amp.

That said, I wouldn’t actually wear this. I appreciate the concept, and its executed very well, but I think it would make me look like I worked for a home theatre company if I wore it.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Let’s get this out of the way, whether its intentional or not, every time I look at this t-shirts I can’t help but be reminded of that iconic image from Queen’s second album, which was rather imaginatively called Queen II. Is anyone else seeing that or do I need to get my head out of the 80s?

I’d never received a shirt designed by Olly Moss, the designer of many, many amazing tees, so I was pretty excited when this shirt fell out of the envelope for Cotton Werks. On the face of it, this design should be creepy, there’s eyes, noses, and ears all over the shop, as well as all that long hair (a commonly known as a sign of evil), and yet I don’t find it all that creepy. It’s a great design, really well finished, and the little bits of yellow and pea green that are in the hair help to give this design an extra touch of awesome.

Cotton Werks have got a sale going on at the moment in which the four designs they currently have on sale at $8. For $8 dollars you can’t really buy much nowadays (although I hear that could get me a nice house in the US), so you probably wouldn’t be expecting a decent tee. But you’d be wrong, Cotton Werks tees are printed onto American Apparel blanks, the ink feels pretty good, and they’ve certainly done a good job handling what is a fairly detailed print with a lot of thin lines.

Costiness=$8 (BARGAIN!) Tee Link

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Cotton Werks, who come under that category of ‘oh, I remember them’, popped back up on my radar recently when I found out that they needed to clear some space for new designs, and we all know what the best way to clear some space if you’re running a t-shirt company is… a sale!And what a sale it is, they may not have the largest inventory (just 4 designs), but they are impressive designs, including the one above by Olly Moss, and all are just $8. Yep, $8, and they’re even printed on American Apparel tees, I can’t remember seeing a design printed American Apparel for a price that low for a very long time.

Cotton Werks

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I’m going to be a bit lazy and just copy/paste their newsletter, but I am going to add in all of the links to make things nice and easy for you:

There is a lot of new news today! “Boo Boo Walker“, “Guitar Solo“, “The Zombie of Oz“, and “Battle!” [monkey + robots ftw!] have all been restocked. “The Persistence of Rock” was also reprinted, but this time on army colored tees. The next big piece of news is that two new shirts are now up for sale! Olly Moss’s third design for Go Ape Shirts is called “The Waste Land“, inspired by the T.S. Eliot poem of the same name. It is a jumbo print on a creme-colored shirt. “Zero” [pictured] was designed by Joshua Agerstrand aka ladrones. This design was printed on grey tri-blend tees, which are SUPER soft. They do tend to run a bit smaller than the normal AA tees and shrink a little more, so you may want to order a size up if you’re between sizes. The extra cost of these tees is due to the extra cost of the blanks. Lastly, if you order more than one shirt, I’ll throw in an issue of Beautiful/Decay!

I’m sure that there’ll be some people who are rather happy to hear about those reprints, get on it before all the hardcore Star Wars fans buy the Boo Boo Walker & Guitar Solo tees!

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