Buy-Tees.net is winding down… honest

admin    T-Shirt News, T-Shirt Reviews     Paul Baines, T-Shirt Reviews, buy tees, t shirt blog

I know some or even many of you have heard it all before, but here’s the problem money and time. Basically I and Chris are flat broke, the roof is crumbling, we’ve little money coming in and with water damage to almost every floor of the house I’m going to have to grow up (finally) and prioritize. That means, very little blogging, which was always just for fun, and an expensive hobby at that. No more reviews, although I’ll try and maintain this blog as an archive for as long as possible.

Career wise I’ll be focusing on graphic design (if anyone needs a decent graphic designer contact me at art@paulbaines.co.uk as long as you like your graphics weird – see my art blogs at http://www.arturban.co.uk and http://paulbaines.co.uk for more info.)

Hopefully, eventually, if the demand for my art picks up I’ll have money enough to sort out my life and even revive this and a few other blogs, but for now I have to admit that problems are coming thick and fast from all directions so reality needs to set in…

Thanks to all those who have read, followed, contributed and generally supported the blog in many ways.

Have fun

Paul

New Season @ Disturbia

admin    T-Shirt News     British t-shirts, Disturbia, Disturbia Clothing, UK, emo shirts, goth t-shirt, punk tees

Highly creative, highly satanic in certain circumstances, highly amusing, intensely trawling the depths of depravity and human dysfunction in the name of t-shirt design, Disturbia Clothing have done it again, and then some, with their latest mind blowing collection of t shirts. I have to admit I am a big big fan of Disturbia’s work, they’ve created one of my all time favourite tees so far, Mary which is one shirt I most definitely wear with pride, alongside Rasputin which again is sublime, they’ve now managed to add two more to the list in the form of their new Geisha and Kali tees. I have to find out more about the artist behind these four tees sometime, they deserve a lot more exposure! Expect mind-bending detail and an explosion of precise illustration from Disturbia’s latest tees, I would really like to see a whole lot more in exactly the same vein as these classics. The combination of history, religion and myth delivered in what can only be described as superlative illustration really pushes the design envelope as far as t-shirt art is concerned.

So, let’s take a peek at the horrifying excellence on offer… shake off the woolly hat and gloves, slip off that thick sweater and welcome in an early Spring and Summer with Disturbia Clothing. read more

Teextile 2.0

admin    T-Shirt News     Teextile, teextile 2.0, teextile relaunch, teextile.com

We’ve posted about Teextile t-shirt contest community a few times here at Buy Tees. For those who have been having problems with the site, just to let you know they have just relaunched with a new and improved version of the site called Teextile 2.0. This isn’t just a glossy redesign, Teextile have fundamentally changed the way they operate, here’s how: read more

The Hermit Returns!

admin    T-Shirt News     Concrete Hermit, art t-shirts, concretehermit.com

Concrete Hermit are back bigger and better than ever with a fabulous new selection of quirky art shirts designed by top artists from around the world. For those not in the know check out my past review entitled Solid As a Rock – Concrete Hermit. For the rest of us I think we should just on and check out what goodies the Hermit has brought back from his travels to the back and beyond of t-shirt inspired revelry and delirium, in that order… read more

More Discounts at Tolky Monkys

admin    T-Shirt News     cartoon shirts, funny t shirts, kids t-shirts, sale, tolky monkys, toon tees

(A belated) New Year sale now on at Tolky Monkys. Prices range from 20% off up to a massive 45% off!

Tolky Monkys’ crazy world of cartoon tees are on sale again, in case you’ve forgotten their inimitable style (how could you?) check out this reminder…

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New Dark Bunny Tees

admin    T-Shirt News     Anchorman, Dark Bunny Tees, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, movie t-shirts, movie tees, zombie t-shirt

Dark Bunny Tees are going from strength to strength with their new additions to the collection, as usual venturing into the world of movies, yet adding their inimitable and usually rather hilarious take on some of the most cherished cult, horror, sci-fi and action blockbusters of all-time including the latest Golden Globe gobbling Avatar from James Cameron. Alex, the illustrating dynamo behind the label has certainly been very busy these last few months with an impressive half dozen more tees on offer, here are three of my faves to wet your appetite… read more

Darth Vader Tee at Springleap

admin    T-Shirt News     Darth Vader, Star Wars, Star Wars T-shirt, springleap

Springleap.com’s latest winning tee features Darth Vader with the caption “Who’s Your Daddy?”.

Cute vector rendition of the classic Starwars baddie, not sure about the yellow t-shirt though.

Anyway check it out…

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This T-Shirt Sucks

admin    T-Shirt News     employment, funny t-shirt, graphic design, jobs, t-shirt design, working in the t-shirt industry

Here’s a funny little addition to the Buy Tees archives. Nikols Kurobasa contacted me yesterday and asked for some advice regarding what I gather is a t-shirt design job (or maybe a graphic design position – never got the full lowdown), basically a little confidence boosting was in order and for good reason. Nikols attached a rather hilarious design proposal and I had to share it with you.

This was the second of two designs, the first being illustrative, this one was created in order to show Nikols’ conceptual prowess and it really hits the mark when it comes to the humour department. Check out ‘This T-Shirt Sucks’ by Nikols Kurobasa. read more

Young Hip and Undead

admin    T-Shirt News     horror t-shirts, zombie, zombie stars, zombie t-shirts, zombies, zombiestars.com

I’ve been a little snowed under recently, and I mean that literally, but I had to give a quick mention to the latest tee by the god of zombie tees Tony Cavalier at ZombieStars.com.

I absolutely love his latest t-shirt design simply entitled ‘Young Money Zombie Gang’. It features a plethora of undead groovies and it’s superbly drawn too and is appropriately printed in glow-in-the-dark ink! Well you need to see where you’re going when they’re after your brains.

Available now for $19.99 in sizes small to large for girls and small to XXL for guys, all sizes are 100% in stock right now if you fancy one.

Check out this larger image if you’re still not convinced! read more

Sale @ Concrete Hermit

admin    T-Shirt News     Concrete Hermit, art, art shirts, t-shirt sale

Here’s a New Year quickie, all tees are on sale at Concrete Hermit right now at 40% off! If you’ve read my review of their shirts and want to grab a bargain now is the time to do it. If you’re into the art there, they also have a sale on all art books too.

Here’s my fave t-shirt there at the moment – Dancer by Mark Taplin – now only £15.

Check the sale out today!