Hanging around in toilets, littering, general misdemeanors

It's fine if we can't put beer mats at the bar, we get that and ok, maybe you can't be bothered to do anything on a Sunday. But anyways... We're spending the summer sticking it to the man. Sure it's in a pretty minor way, but damn it, we're showing them who's boss. Or at least who's got a load of flyers and posters and blue tack.

In My Short Sleeve

Hey, we're on a blog! We've got a blog and we're on another one what someone else wrote. That's right damn it. One of our previous subjects of a "hey-we're-a-big-fan-no-you-don't-have-to-ah-go-on-then-you-can-write-about-us-too" blog, inmyshortsleeve.com has done a right lovely write up of us.

It says here, that In My Short Sleeve is a site dedicated to the world of the beloved t-shirt. And they'd be right.

Read all about it....................... here.

Come On Football! (part 2)

There's been something of an influx of pretty decent football shirts over the last few weeks, can't think why... They're all in a fairly similar vain, but to be honest there's nothing better than big black and white prints on a white tee. Especially if it eradicates some of the meat-headed football nonsense over the next couple of weeks. Here's some of our favourites...

Some nice lion stuff going on here. Not exactly unobvious (is that a proper word?) but pretty smart nonetheless.

Some kind of pill with footballs in. Not sure why really but it's a better look than an England shirt covered in kebab and blood and sick.

Gazza! 1990! Crying like a baby. Classic image, although it does make this tee look like a vest.

A bit (well, a lot) like the first one, but just less lion-ey. I've often dreamt of having Geoff Hurst's hand on my shoulder, clutching that trophy. Or is it Bobby Moore? Or the other one...?

And finally... something shit. Can these t-shirts all piss off please? Apart from the Ferris Bueller one, that's genius.

We're On A Podcast

If you're as cool as us, you'll have been listening to the Collings and Herrin podcast for ages now. So we sent them a couple of tees to sponsor the podcast with and obviously they were super excited about this. They were going to wear them in the podcast photo but Andrew forgot his and Richard's was a bit tight (another is winging it's way to him as I type). So they better wear them for the next one.
Have a listen here, but do be aware that I get called a very rude name...

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Awesome People

Here's a little Summerjunk thumbs up to the people in the blogging community that we love.

Our favourite blog that we're reading every day at the moment is In My Short Sleeve. It's written by a delightful lady called Kim who manages to find really awesome designs from all over the place and says things like "Highlight for me is clearly the tank-tops. They’re super fresh." which is brilliant.

Hide Your Arms have an amazing selection of tees from around the web. They also have some pretty cool advertising space at the top. They have this other awesome thing called t-shirtblo.gs where you can vote for your favourite tee blogs. We've not been anywhere near the top though. Or the bottom actually...

I Am The Trend have a really detailed site that talks about everything from music to art to clothing and everything else your indie heart could desire. They have some stuff about the new Mumford & Sons range of tees, and we can't wait to get to see them when we're at Summer Sundae.

Come On Football!

This hasn't really got anything to do with football, we're just dead excited about the World Cup tonight.

We've done some right good updating of the website over the last few days. We've managed to get a countdown timer and everything. So to celebrate we are offering our newest design - 'wearejunk' - at a discounted price while the clock is ticking (we might just reset the clock once it's run out, but is it worth the risk?).

And... there's still a few days left to enter our competition and win your very own ltd edition 'unity' tee. Just answer a preposterous question then sit back and wait.

Oh yeah, do you like us? You know, 'like' like? Because if you do then you should like us on facebook too. It's probably the first place that you'll hear about all new designs, competitions, what new trousers we've bought ourselves, that kind of thing. Unless of course you check the website daily for some reason. Oh yeah, follow us on twitter too while you're at it.

Anything else? Well yes. Listen to 'Mars' by Fake Blood. It's incredible.

Topshop makes me feel like death

A while ago I bought this tee from Topshop. Buying high street tees is not a practice that I often partake of unsurprisingly, but I really liked the design. It looks a bit Stars 'n' Stripes-eque and has skulls all over in a Mexican day of the dead style which is massive wins all round in my book. I got to wear it once to a gig which means sweat and washing straight away. And this simple process of buying-wearing-washing apparently means instant tee death now. It lost all its shape and kinda felt like it shrunk, but I reckon this is the cut getting lost somewhere in a world of soap-suds and fabric conditioner. I've worn it a couple of times since when doing some painting so there's gloss up the back, and it has now been relegated to girlfriend bedtime wear.

I never took it back, cuz you know it was like £14 or something and what's the point? Would they have even taken it back? Probably, but I reckon they're banking on people not really being bothered. It's a decent design which is the worst thing. I'd have paid twice as much happily, and then I'd still have it now.

We don't like it when other people do things by halves, and this is why we don't do it ourselves. I'm kinda loathe to write a blog saying how great we are, but then you must be reading this for a reason. So yeah, our stuff is great, and more expensive than Topshop, and you'll be able to wear it more than once.

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Everybody's Gone Surfin'

Well sort of, think everyone's bunked off today and gone to the beach... But we're still workin' hard. These tees don't sell themselves you know. And sometimes not at all, cuz sometimes you just win them in a competition.

We've about a week left of the barbecue-survey-let's-pretend-it's-summer-oh-wait-it-actually-is-now competition, where you can win one of our limited edition Unity tee's. And if you don't enter, then you can't win goddamn it!

Go here (ok?) and then find the freestuff bit (still following?) and then answer a question and then win the tee (hat, model, beige wall not included). It's pretty easy really, i'm not sure why that was necessary. It's been a hot day.

And whilst you're doing it, check out our favourite new band Is Tropical and their debut single When O When. Just on Spotify probably unless you've got a spare million quid to buy it off eBay.

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We love keeping it independent

'Always keep it independent' was some advice we received last week, and we have no intention of doing anything less. Everything we do, we do because we love it, not because we think it'll sell more or because we want to increase our SEO. I mean, it's not like we don't want to sell more or increase our SEO but we know the people who buy our tees aren't going to be duped by fancy virals or getting some stick thin fashionista wearing our designs in the 'spotted' section of Heat or other lady brain rotting publications.

So we're pretty new to blogging, tweeting, facebooking, er... and any other internet-ing that we can get involved in. And we know this is an amazing way to keep everyone who follows, likes and whatever-else's-us updated. But we were amazed to read about how completely mental the world of blogging is... isn't this supposed to be a fun thing?! Apparently people are just going to stop reading if you don't update like, every day or keep it super regular or whatever. Surely we can just write about what we want, when we want? If not then i'm afraid we've fallen at the first hurdle... This should have gone up yesterday to continue the every-other-day-ness of this particular blog.

We hope that our followers, members & readers will understand. But we will always do what we promised from the start (something about being an independent company what designs t-shirts, I forget now).

Hide Your Arms has a great blog, and it's got a list of people we want to be t-shirt friends with.

http://hideyourarms.com/

We've been listening to a lot of Swell Maps and we like reading about their early ventures of convincing shops in Camden market to sell their tapes. We really like Swell Maps, and we really don't like Elastica.

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