VINTAGE TEES - A FORM OF JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT ARTWORK

Man, this hits so close to home and unlocks some serious nostalgia, especially when you realize the absolute masterpieces we let slip through our fingers.  

Everyone's fingers.                                                              

You are asking the ultimate existential question because the mystery of where our pristine, single-stitch youth vanished to is genuinely painful.  Whether and when they fell into the ex-girlfriend pajama black hole or her closet, got tossed during an aggressive move, or were tragically downgraded to garage rags by parents who mistook "perfectly worn-in" for "garbage." It’s a tragedy...whichever one slices and dices this.                                                                                  

It's a tragic tale, because a heavily thinned-out Nirvana tee or a beautifully cracked, faded Led Zeppelin graphic in our website www.an8th.com is basically a wearable Jean-Michel Basquiat painting; they have that same raw angst, naturally chaotic, so unpretentious,  distressed energy, littered with crown-worthy street-art perfection born from decades of sweat and rock 'n' roll history.                                                                          

If I could reclaim every crown-jewel band tee that mysteriously evaporated from my closet, I’d be absolutely stoked.                                                                                                        

I'd be super stoked, that I'd be joining you in Capri for that cookie dough diet, mourning the fact that our teenage wardrobes—which belong in a contemporary art museum next to Untitled—are currently funding someone else's eBay empire.