Free Shipping at Vig Tees

If tou like funny tees, it seems everyone does these days, you’ll be glad to know that Vig Tees have just introduced a free shipping deal for all orders over $50. Get down there now and see if you can do with some Vig

Btw here’s a t-shirt that made me laugh (for once). If you know your history then I suppose it’s kind of bad taste, it depends if you personally remember the last World War or not :/

Boston Tee Party @ Viva Ortegacy

My apologies to Dave Ortega of Viva Ortegacy for taking so long to get around to this, I’ve spent near enough a day tracking down links and information for another review that turned out to be rather a waste of time. The problem with receiving requests from PR agencies is they simply don’t know the industry as well as the designers they represent. to cut a long story short the site was great, professional, nice graphic designs, but they had no way of letting their readers buy their gear, well there was probably a phone number somewhere and perhaps they could take your credit card details, and they did have a few for sale in boutique in Georgia, but really, if you want a review, remember my readers are global, they need closure! Luckily Viva Ortegacy is a different story altogether, and then some.

Not only do have a shopping cart (phew) but what’s more they’re throwing a party, and it’s free, and there’s food and drink and everything you could imagine!! Okay maybe I’ve gone a little too far there, but it still sounds fun to me, although I maybe rather out of the loop here on the blustery wintry south coast of Britain. If you want to join in the fun be at The Grand, 374 Somerville Avenue, Union Square, Somerville, Boston on December 4th between 6pm and 8pm or be square!

Besides it will get you away from that damn screen, so if you’re not here, on the other side of the world then you really should join in the celebrations for Ortega’s new Tees of The Future. Now don’t ask me why they’re from the future, I’m sure Dave will have a convincing argument for you when you get there.

His latest offering is his Geoskullz Tee, which is available in both olive and brown, and for some strange reason remind me of Argyle patterns, yes you probably need to be me to see that one. Read more

ImaHotTee.com - Takes The High Road

Before I get started, two things to mention, firstly the hilarious video we’re featuring at Buy-Tees.net this week, it stars the man, the brain, the frenzy of activity that is Mike Martin, the creator of I’m A Hot Tee (ImaHotTee.com). For more of his hilarious t-shirt related videos take a jaunt down to Mike’s little corner of Youtube.com

Secondly it’s Mike, I’ve rarely enjoyed an email (or five) as much as I have Mike’s. An intelligent, funny and at times inspiring chap who, as far as I can tell is about to make it big in Hollywood if his agent can sell the script, but don’t tell him I’ve mentioned this, he will most likely deny it, he’s a modest guy and besides it’s all extremely hush-hush you know? Such are the ways of La La Land.

On to the label itself. Mike is a fan of Buy Tees, and seeing as he’s just launched his new t-shirt company, I’m a Hot Tee (www.imahottee.com), he thought we could set him off to a good stead (we’ll do our best!). The ethos behind I’m A Hot Tee is a simple, but dare I say it, righteous one. Yet again I’m breaking one of my golden rules, I have two pet hates as far as t-shirts go. ‘Slogan tees’ and ‘funny shirts’. However Mike’s mission to provide a genuine alternative to the old school stores offering the same vulgar, crude, and just generally insulting shirts out there, and his intelligent and highly amusing personality swayed me.

Avoiding clichéd offensive shirts that I believe, most sane people, without a Meth habit, and not living in a trailer park, would most likely avoid. Let’s lay our cards on the table here, what kind of people can hold down a job and wear these expletive-loaded, hate everyone under the sun, bar brawler shirts anyway? Do they have a secret wardrobe? Perhaps there are special conventions for extremely bad taste t-shirt addicts. Do they sell well in the Summer, or is it just a Winter fancy to secrete beneath a thick sweater or two? Mike has a sound philosophy, he wants to sell t-shirts that everyone can wear, not teenagers who’ve decided they hate their parents and need to be forced out of the family nest in order to get some housing credits. I’m a Hot Tee’s slogan says it all - ‘Hot Tees You Can Take Home to Mom!‘ Read more

New Tees at SplitReason.com

Welcome to the dark side, SplitReason.com (who I’ve featured before) have sent in a few of their latest designs and they are distinctly leaning on the macabre side, but don’t worry they haven’t left their famous sense of humour, I’m tempted to do a full whack review of this label as they have plenty of goodies on offer but I’m committed (I should be - to a mental home) to helping out a couple of new designers on the verge of breaking an exciting new label that will need all the PR it can muster.

So for now let’s take a look at three new tees at SplitReason… Read more

Busted Tees - Another Sale

Sale! All Shirts Only $13.99 @ BustedTees. September 19-26. Yes
Busted Tees have another sale on so if funny t-shirts are your thing get on down there now.
All the top college humour tees are now for sale at $13.99…

$5 off at SogeShirts.com

I’m not the greatest fan of ‘funny t-shirts’, ‘offensive t-shirts’ or ’slogan tees’, but I know that a lot of you out there love them, just check Google if you are one of the exceptions. Besides SogeShirts.com is offering $5 off all their tees at the moment (on an order of $40 or more) and its CEO Timothy seems like a friendly chap so here we go.

If you fancy saving $5 then type in the code CABIN5OF40 at the checkout. I asked for a little extra off for all my fab readers here at Buy Tees but sorry people, he’s all out of exclusive discounts :/ Read more

Glennz Does It Again!

Yet again Glennz aka Glenn Jones, one of Buy Tees favourite designers has done it again and come up trumps with his three latest t-shirts now available at Glennz.com - yet again the master of surrealism and wordplay has produced some of the finest designs out there - check these beauties out…

Ground Defenses

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Made in The USA (In Chinese)

Here’s an absolutely hilarious t-shirt from WigglyPiggly.com - it speaks for itself really. I’m sure this is a sign of things to come, have I mentioned that China will be the richest country in the world within 40 years?

Probably, but it’s well worth remembering. Seeing as most of their schoolchildren are more advanced in mathematics and programming than graduates in the West, the fact they have over 1.25 billion inhabitants (and potential consumers) and about 3000 years worth of coal for the burning, I don’t think the rest of us have much chance - do we? Read more

Lost in the world of Fast Joe

Fast Joe (a.k.a Carlos Arenas) of FastJoe.com requested a review recently, and to be honest I am still utterly confused, really, I think he should do the review because I’m damned if I know what to say. The thing is when you arrive at his site, the design, the strange background story (which seems utterly incomplete to me) and the t-shirts themselves (which almost feel like an afterthought), leave me feeling disorientated and perhaps even a little more out of touch and older than my years. Am I going senile here?

If I was Carlos I’d begin by creating an animated series, ’something for the kids’, a tangible product to hang his ideas on. I don’t like ‘anonymous art’, and I haven’t an avenue to enter his strange, retro, and pseudo-sci-fi influenced universe as promised from the word go. I saw the video, which is strange (to say the least). I loved it, but it didn’t tell me much, and afterwards it felt like a rather brief and frustrating teaser, I was hoping for some kind of explanation to what the hell is going on over there. Read more

Spunky.co.uk are buying t-shirt designs!

Spunky.co.uk have to be one of my favourite online British t-shirt labels; you may have seen them doing their thing at Glastonbury this year, this company is the real deal, they go out there and actually sell their gear rather than sit back and wait like most stores. Besides they have a refreshingly quirky sense of humour and a great selection of original t-shirt designs on offer to top it off.

They’re currently seeking new t-shirt designs for their next collection and are offering £150, a sample t-shirt and as much publicity for your work as they can possibly muster. After all it’s a two-way street here, the better known the designer, the more sales they receive. Essentially I’d take a punt with Spunky because they seem to support their creative sources more than your usual t-shirt label might, they’re even redesigning their t-shirt designer showcase to further improve public awareness of their contributors. Although I have asked if they might consider linking the designers’ names on each product page to their showcase profile. I’d like to see more interactivity too, perhaps a shoutbox or star ratings, although I don’t want them to just become another Threadless clone. Read more

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