metal shirts?

[ragstoriches]

so i work at a store that sells band merch and we recently got in a huge shipment of metal shirts,
my question is...

what is up with metal shirts now!?
For example:
www.rockworldeast.com/store/Cattle_Decapitation_T-Shirt_Sacrifice

maybe its just me but i find that obnoxious and unecessary! what about you guys, would you wear it? do you think people would judge you?

[Erin]

It suits the band name.
I've never heard of them, but I find that certain sub-genres of metal always have ridiculous shirts. They already have ridiculous band names (and logos no-one can even read) to start with. A lot of them use all that gore just to grab attention. They usually don't have a huge audience; it's often a selected group of teenage boys only and most of them grow out of it and turn to regular metal/hard rock.

Having said that, I also remember t-shirts that Cradle of Filth had, I think they said "Jesus is a cunt" and they're a pretty famous band (i.e. also known outside the metal crowd). There was a huge fuss over those shirts, that they should be banned and whatnot.

I guess people wearing the shirt you linked are judged for it, but I suppose most people doing the judging would see it as a phase of the person wearing it.
The sick fucks wearing shirts like this & going on shooting rampages, are sick fucks regardless.

*steps off soap box*

[lostatsea]

Wow, yeah that's pretty bad. I might sound like a mom when I say this but seriously... what if you were wearing that and you ran into your Grandma? Lol. What would she think?