Shirts
...through t-shirt breezes walking home from work...
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Be the coolest ski bum on the slopes this winter with this stylish Trashcan Sinatras ski cap. Maybe there should be a whole line of TCS clothes and accessories?
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One of the t-shirts sold during the "All Night" acoustic tour in which the Trashcan Sinatras vowed to play all of their catalog of 100+ songs at some point during the tour. This shirt makes the suggestive statement "Trashcan Sinatras kept me up all night". Indeed.
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Another shirt sold during the Trashcan Sinatras' acoutstic "All Night" tour, this one simply says "All Night with the Trashcan Sinatras."
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Here is a t-shirt with a picture of the front cover design of the Trashcan Sinatras sixth album Wild Pendulum. Very dreamy design complete with starscapes, flying birds and Chinese lanterns.
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The first of the shirts that I bought my daughter at her first TCS show in June 2016. This one depicts a stylish origami bird in flight.
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This nice tank top was the second shirt I bought my daughter at the San Francisco show in May 2016.
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This shirt, I've been told, has printed on it the phonetic Japanese translation of "Trashcan Sinatras" (Torakyan Shinatora). I don't know the accuracy of this statement, but if you say it out loud it kind of sounds like it might be, and it looks cool even if it may not be true. Who knows?
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The Trashcan Sinatras, as part of the promotion for their fifth album In the Music, performed at the 2009 Fuji Rock Festival held in Niigata, Japan. At the festival, the shirt pictured below was one of the items sold. This particular shirt was autographed by all the members of the band.
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With a design almost identical to the Fuji Rock Festival '09 shirt pictured directly above (sans autographs and the "Fuji Rock Festival '09" notation on the back), this shirt came in a darker off-white color.
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The tongue-in-cheek "Legendary Scottish Band" (the band's unofficial motto) is emblazoned on these four shirts, each with a different color, with the black version in long sleeves.
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This shirt was made as part of the promotion of the Trashcan Sinatras' fourth album Weightlifting. Two colored versions are shown below.
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As with the shirts above, here is another two-color set of shirts promoting Weightlifting, although in this case the motif is a silhouetted copy of the clothes-on-the-clothesline photo on the cover of the album.
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A t-shirt commemorating the song "All the Dark Horses" on the Trashcan Sinatras' fifth album Weightlifting. One of the finest songs that they've ever recorded, by the way. I really like the stenciled silhouette style of the lettering on this one.
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At the right is a shirt celebrating the release of In the Music, the band's fifth album. The shirt is basically a recreation of the CD cover, with the same red background color and modernistic abstract design.
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A basic tee, with simple block letter spelling out "Trashcan Sinatras". I have no idea of the vintage of this shirt, except that is appears to be around the time of Weightlifting or later, since "Trashcan" is spelled as one word instead of the two-worded "Trash Can" which was the way it was written pre-Weightlifting.
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Another simple shirt with standard block text of the Trashcan Sinatras' name, but unlike the unknown time-frame of the similar shirt above, I have been told by those close to the band that this is definitely a shirt from the Weightlifting era. As with the shirt directly above, the single-worded "Trashcan" gives a hint that this shirt is not from the time prior to the release of Weightlifting.
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"Everything is enhanced by you". So this shirt exclaims, as a reference to the late great ex-Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. On the Trashcan Sinatra's fifth album In the Music, the song "Oranges and Apples" serves as a love-letter to Barrett, and this t-shirt continues the tribute with it's clever oranges and apple design.
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A very old shirt, from the early days during the release of TCS' first album Cake. The shirt says "the trash can sinatras - the cliche kills". Not at all sure what that means.
The shirt design is that of the cover of the band's first single "Obscurity Knocks", depicting lead guitarist Paul Livingston balancing precariously on a speeding skateboard. |
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The Trashcan Sinatras made a triumphant return in 2004 with the album Weightlifting as well as a handful of shows at the Troubadour in Los Angeles (also the venue whereby a young Elton John burst into the consciousness of American audiences back in 1970). This shirt was sold at those Trashcan shows, performances which proved that the Trashcan's hadn't missed a beat during their 8 year semi-hiatus.
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I think this shirt was meant to be a humorously ironic take on the band, because the Trashcan Sinatras' music does not generally lend itself to statements such as "the Scottish destruction of the American landscape tour", nor the heavy metal-like font and depiction of human skulls.
There are two versions--an erroneous one which had the Scottish flag (red?!) and font/background colors (blue?!) reversed. When it was discovered that the Scottish flag was meant to be depicted as (correctly) blue, the mistake was realized, and the correct version was then manufactured, with the blue Scottish flag and blood-like red wording at the bottom.
There are two versions--an erroneous one which had the Scottish flag (red?!) and font/background colors (blue?!) reversed. When it was discovered that the Scottish flag was meant to be depicted as (correctly) blue, the mistake was realized, and the correct version was then manufactured, with the blue Scottish flag and blood-like red wording at the bottom.
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With a rather (ahem) well-endowed Japanese rock chick on the cover, this is one of the shirts sold at the Fuji Rock Festival 2009, in which the Trashcan Sinatras performed. Others on the bill were Oasis, Patti Smith, Paul Weller and Franz Ferdinand.
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The Trashcan Sinatras first album Cake was released in 1990, and to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release in 2015, this shirt was created. It depicts the Cake album cover art along with the declaration "25 years of Cake."
Maybe it's just because Cake was the band's first record, but I'm curious as to whether they will break out anniversary merchandise for any of the other albums. Probably not, as the first record holds a special place with any musical outfit. 
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Shabby Road was the name given to the Trashcan Sinatras recording studio that they purchase with money they received as part of their recording deal with Go! Discs record in the late '80s. Located in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the studio was where the band basically lived, as noted in the following video. This shirt commemorates its legacy, complete with the Shabby Road logo.
Shabby Road is of course a take-off on the name of the Beatles recording facility located on Abbey Road. |
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"I Hate Music" seems an unlikely choice for a band as musically gifted as the Trashcan Sinatras to have as a slogan, but there you are. This shirt dates back to the I've Seen Everything days of 1993. On the back of the shirt contains the anagrams for "Trash Can Sinatras" that are printed on a promo version of the I've Seen Everything album (go to the 6-track promotional CD on the I've Seen Everything page).
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