Swimming in vinyl

"Just your standard fat kids swimming in a giant record tee."

This is awesome. I'm not "into" music like a lot of people seem to be—I listen to the radio in the car, or when I'm cleaning the house, but I own a total of maybe (maybe) seven CDs.

And I'm not really into the whole retro music thing. It was only a few years ago that my family made the final switch from cassette tapes to CDs (although we currently cannot play either one in our vehicles), and when we were kids, we'd (often? occasionally? It's hard to tell; my childhood blurs together...) dance around to my mom's old records. She actually had a bunch of records that were specifically made for kids to dance to, things with names like "Clean up songs" and "Naptime songs" and "Songs for Spring." Oh, and we had at least one record with a bunch of Disney songs like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and The Mickey Mouse Club Theme Song.

I'm rambling. Sorry. My point is that while these things have a certain personal nostaligic value for me, that nostalgic value isn't something I need to wear on a mass-produced (and yes, even Threadless counts) shirt. So my real point is that most record/cassette shirts are dumb.

This, however, is not dumb. Or maybe it is, but if so it's a delicious, playful, summery kind of dumb, and that's okay. It's simple, it's friendly, it's funny, and I really, really like it.