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Thanks for all the responses. You've made an old(ish) guy feel very welcome. My favourite shirt was the 'Jesus Loves the Sisters'. Always got a response. Dodgy one on a weekend evening. A more pleasent one from little old religious ladies who would always compliment me on showing my religion. Am assuming, that apart from those sold on tour, that there isn't any official ones sold anymore? I think the Repile House still owe me a shirt! Never did get that free one! Thanks again for making me welcome!
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No I never got a free one either! I want my free t-shirt! :-)
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Oh the suspense. Currently at over £90 so I don't think I'll be bidding afterall.
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I remember a Sisters Shirt

subliminal message:
satan
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f**k

or something like that
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Andrew S wrote:Oh the suspense. Currently at over £90 so I don't think I'll be bidding afterall.
:eek:

Nice though...
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Peter KJ wrote:I remember a Sisters Shirt

subliminal message:
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f**k

or something like that
I remember that one! Had a weird black gloss font on a long sleeve top
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Ha ha :) first T-shirt made for me "Jesus love the sisters" friend of mine. I send mail for Sisters and got a catalogue and he made for me this t-short :) Another I got from Prague. When i was 20 years old, and i made in last year from pictures was I found on Heartland.

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One time I was wearing a Sisters tee on the PATH train from NJ to NY, and a group of nuns saw it and started smiling at me, talking to each other, whispering as if I was some supporter :D
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EvilBastard wrote:- a peace offering when they closed down The Reptile House for good.
Longer ago than I care to admit I received a postcard saying I was supposed to be getting some sort of special something-or-other. Could this have been it? But the card dates back to 1990 or so.

I got a free shirt on the Silver Bullet tour, but I brought Lighting Company Swag for the crew so maybe it was more of a trade?

The Tune In, Turn On, Burn Out shirt was wounded considerably as I was wearing it the day Quincy the Cat decided he was terrified of keys. Whoops.

The Overbombing 1993 Europe shirt is probably my favorite to look at, the Event Horizon shirt took the most effort as I went to the Hollywood show to get it, though non-Sisters fans seem to best like the Utterly Bastard Groovy shirt. Quoth one friend: it sounds like it should be offensive, but at least it does it in an intelligent manner.

Mrs. Dung Beetle likes the "Militant Sex Machine" hoodie from the Silver Bullet tour. She has a thing for hoodies, I don't but I know she does :wink:

The collection also includes a Body & Soul/Body Electric, a Reptile House E.P., a Distance Over Time, the free Silver Bullet, a "New logo" from back when it was a new logo, the tattered but probably wearable remains of the Tune In... shirt, and a head-n-star 1990 promo giveaway from a local radio station very faded from duty as a convertible's seatcover during the early 1990's.
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today i am actually wearing my
"utterly bastard groovy"
t shirt . purchased the last time the sisters played the uni in leeds (i think) it was the last time i saw Mr Fiend and his other half too. (and probably most of the members here)
its a wee bit faded but still looks good. (on me any way)..............(ok i might be lying about the last bit)
i am more likely to release an album before the sisters
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nigel d wrote:today i am actually wearing my
"utterly bastard groovy"
t shirt . purchased the last time the sisters played the uni in leeds (i think) it was the last time i saw Mr Fiend and his other half too. (and probably most of the members here)
its a wee bit faded but still looks good. (on me any way)..............(ok i might be lying about the last bit)
I have to say mine is the best quality tee shirt I own by far. It's not faded and it's great material. Feel the quality. ;D
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I may have said this before somewhere, but Mr. ED's post reminded me. I used to go out with a girl from Northern Ireland whose grandmother was a member of Rev Ian Paisley's church. (For those unfamiliar with Irish/British politics, Paisley has for many years been the most prominent Protestant loyalist leader in Norhtern Ireland and was, until recently, Forst Minister. He also founded the Free Presbyterian Church, a conservative fundamentalist denomination, regularly delivering fire and brimstone services both in his church and in Parliament. Bearing in mind the NI situation back in the 1990s, anything of a Catholic persuasion was not in the least bit welcome.)

The one time I met the granny, I wore - without thinking - a Sisters shirt (a bootleg, but the only one I could find in those days). She took one look at it and bawled, "Sisters of Mercy? What's that?" She wasn't satisfied with our explanation that it was a band and not an order of nuns.
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Mr. ED wrote:One time I was wearing a Sisters tee on the PATH train from NJ to NY, and a group of nuns saw it and started smiling at me, talking to each other, whispering as if I was some supporter :D
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Peter KJ wrote:I remember a Sisters Shirt

subliminal message:
satan
heroin
f**k

or something like that



Just sold one last night on ebay for £47 :D
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Hom_Corleone wrote:
nigel d wrote:today i am actually wearing my
"utterly bastard groovy"
t shirt . purchased the last time the sisters played the uni in leeds (i think) it was the last time i saw Mr Fiend and his other half too. (and probably most of the members here)
its a wee bit faded but still looks good. (on me any way)..............(ok i might be lying about the last bit)
I have to say mine is the best quality tee shirt I own by far. It's not faded and it's great material. Feel the quality. ;D
Mine too. I had mine on for the Joseph's Well gig back in 2006, it got ragged about to hell but its still going strong today. Makes me looked absolutely stacked (muscular incase that's a word not many use) when I wear it too for some reason. :lol:

As I now have a scanner I'll have to pop on here the thing I got from the Reptile House back in 1995 (many that'll have it/seen it but many that won't I suppose so its worth it). Still in mint condition, must have about 30 available at the time t-shirts in plus loads of other little bits & bats.

Will have to learn how to actaully use the scanner now I guess...
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Useful. Thanks.
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Nice work vicus :notworthy:
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Ah, that's just annoying. I'd buy any of those, if I could get my hands on them. Really, Eldritch is infuriating.

At this point, it's got to be about the cash - the tours trundle ever on - but how bloody hard would it be to set up an online merchandising operation? Gigs and merch are reputedly where the cash is, so why not?

A webstore would involve shag all overheads and essentially free money for putting teeshirts in the post.

It defies belief.
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Andrew S wrote:Oh the suspense. Currently at over £90 so I don't think I'll be bidding afterall.
CONDITION = WORN BUT NO HOLES SNAGS OR TEARS...STILL SWEATED
the price stopped at 107,00...more than my "Armani" t-shirt
thanks...my Lord...i'm unbeliver
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psichonaut wrote: 107,00...more than my "Armani" t-shirt
Ofcourse! :P :innocent: :wink:
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psichonaut wrote: the price stopped at 107,00...more than my "Armani" t-shirt
Armani? Never heard of that band :lol:
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psichonaut wrote:
Andrew S wrote:Oh the suspense. Currently at over £90 so I don't think I'll be bidding afterall.
CONDITION = WORN BUT NO HOLES SNAGS OR TEARS...STILL SWEATED
the price stopped at 107,00...more than my "Armani" t-shirt
"Armani" or Armani? :lol: Pretty steep for a worn tee either way :eek:
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but my t-shirt wasn't sweat when i bought it....does it worths?
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Hello

been along time since i posted but i can't believe i just read someone paid 107GBP for the 'entertianment or death' t-shirt!! :eek:
I thought we are about to enter a global apocalypse of the fiscal kind and someone has the balls to blow 107 quid on a second hand shirt. :?

Crikey!

apart from the sisters shirts there were the reptile house underneath the rock designs drawn by andrea white with different catalogue numbers.

i never saw anyone wear them at gigs - more likely to see bootleg shirts even back in the nineties...

if a shirt sells for 107 whats the (50 off) vision thing leather belt worth?
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