TShirtSlayer Heavy Metal Merch Gallery
  • Bands (0)
  • Groups (0)
  • Members (0)
  • (X)

World's largest community of heavy metal tshirt and battlejacket collectors.

Forums > EBay or other finds

Real Metal Up Your Ass shirt?

Space_Hag
Mon, 24/09/2018 - 05:31

He tried to sell it to me for 150 but went down to 125. I couldn't find any sign of a trademark but it definitely seems like an old xxl shirt.

http://imgur.com/a/PwBkuJi


PRISM's picture

So I'm not an expert on shirts and I'd wait for confirmation from someone that has a little more experience with vintage Met Shirts, but that doesn't look right to me.

In fact, the shirt Doc linked looks exactly like the one in your picture, down to the placement of every single striking distressmark.
I have uploaded a shoddy side-by-side to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/KklBCpU

The legit vintage copies on this site have no artificial distress either, so the chances that this identical placement is to be found in both vintage & contemporary shirts is slim to nonexistant aswell.

https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/metallicametal-your-ass 1994 Version
https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/metallica-metal-your-ass-8 1987 Version
https://tshirtslayer.com/tshirt-or-longsleeve/metallica-metal-your-ass-o... 1985 Version

doomtilldeath's picture

That "1987" version is also a reprint/bootleg. It has the modern Fruit of the Loom tag.

PRISM's picture

Possibly. I only glanced at these and saw a copyright.

I'm sure a Met collector has the best insight on this - but now that I've noticed it, I'd agree with you that that FOTL tag doesn't look 1987 at all lol.

Space_Hag's picture

the tag on the shirt I found didn't seem vintage either. Proliferated paper tear-away but I didn't recognize the brand. I don't think that sort of tag would have lasted that long if they were even around in the 80s/90s

vkok's picture

There is no way to tell. I see a lot of stuff sold on ebay where they say its vintage but sometimes its almost impossible to tell if its fake or not. There were few cases where i was able to tell that they are fake.There was on Borgir shirt sold on ebay where the watermark was slightly off from the original shirt. I had to actually compare against my photo with the ebay one. Otherwise the shirt looked almost identical. Maybe the owner doesnt even know he's got a fake one.

In some cases, maybe only an FBI lab would be able to tell you when the shirt was printed. And even thats is a big maybe.

Space_Hag's picture

Wow with the evidence you guys dug up, I think it might really be a fake. No trademark, artificial distressing patterns.... I am really glad that I didn't impulsively buy it (even though I do think it still looks cool)

568,592 items in the gallery, 881,079 comments, and 550 items have changed hands in the last month.

Guess this TShirt!

Can you guess which metal tshirt this is from?

Can you guess which metal TShirt this is from? Click here for all previous tshirt guesses

Recent Comments