Wearing Concert Shirts Around Women

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Be yourself. Flaunt your swag. I used to wear dreadlocks and dirty "lot wear" in college and had zero problem hooking up. I called in my "screening" system. If I could look like that and a chick was still interested, I knew she was probably DTF.

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I'm becoming more and more inclined to think and behave that way. I agree with your mindset of a screening process. Unfortunately, sometimes it seems like the girls you appeal to with that sort of getup aren't always my type.

Plus, it's admittedly hard to just accept that the majority of good-looking women will be off limits just because of a shirt choice.

On my wedding night towards the end of the reception I took off my jacket, tie and shirt to reveal my Mudvayne concert tee I've had for 10 years.
Still one of my favorite shirts to wear.
Didn't care what anyone thought and I am proud of my love for the harder edge of Rock and Roll!
Of course I was not trying to hook up either as I just had committed to the ultimate hook up.
She was kind of freaked at first but the marriage was still consummated later that night.
Be who you are. I am a professional in the business world and I submit to the expectations required therein while at work. However, years ago in college, I had a steady supply of black tees that I wore to class and still managed to do pretty good.
Good Luck

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Plus, it's admittedly hard to just accept that the majority of good-looking women will be off limits just because of a shirt choice.

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This is a real issue. I have a friend who's a big metal head and seems to only attract the craziest, ugliest, nastiest, fattest, most tatted up women i've ever seen. I don't know where he finds these people. He can't find an attractive 20-something year old who enjoys rock music even a little to save his life.

The reality is, todays young women are an entire generation removed from a time when other women listened to rock music. Girls haven't en-masse listened to rock since the late 80's. It's not on their radar. For the kinds of girls you're probably attracted to (the clean cut sorority type, I'm guessing?), they mostly listen to Nashville Pop Country and shite they can grind to when they're drunk.

What they want is a sweet, sensitive, clean cut "country" boy who sings about love and having sex in the back of a pickup truck by a creek.

So, if you lack the confidence to just wear your metal t-shirts and be yourself, do the following:

Sorta dress fratty, but keep your shorts long. Stay clean cut and well groomed. Be a little "aw shucks" with them while being humorous. If you need a clinic on how to do this, just watch videos of LSU Baseball Coach Paul Maineire talking to the media.

This will get you dates. Start out by easing them in. Maybe with a local indie night, say Humble Kind, Minos the Saint, Motel Radio, West Without. They'll kinda dig it, especially if they like you. Next, bring them to something a little more hard, but accessible like The Breton Sound, Hitchhiker, Bayou Bullets, Loundness War, The 501st, or some kind of touring act like a ZOSO, Anders Osborne, Cage The Elephant, Mutemath, or Queenscythe. If she likes it, move on to the next level. Start listening to metal in your car when she's around, just make sure it's stuff with actual singing and not just screaming, so some Metallica, Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold, Rush, Iron Maiden, ect. Once she's built up a tolerance, start bringing her to stuff like Mastodon, Islander, Muther, Ventris, Christwurm, ect. By then, if she's still with you, she will fully embrace metal.

I know this seems like a complicated process, but it works. My clean cut, goodie goodie two shoes fiance started out listening to Nashville pop and now complains because none of her female friends ever want to go check out hard rock and metal shows on the weekends. It can happen, you just have to ease them into it. No one jumps straight from Bieber to "Raining Blood". Good luck to you

Steve-- Your personality repels people, so i wouldnt worry tooooo much about your concert tees.

i love this thread

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What kind of girls are you wanting to hook up with? If you're seeking out other gore and occult minded individuals then by all means go for it, especially at a show. If you're looking for a sorostitute and you're walking around on campus, then no, you will not get laid wearing anthrax shirts.

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That's exactly what I figured. I wasn't sure if some people just didn't give a shite and took the risk anyway or if they were tactical in their wardrobe selections.

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If you're looking for a sorostitute and you're walking around on campus, then no, you will not get laid wearing anthrax shirts

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I actually have an Anthrax shirt with a giant pentagram on it.

Metal shirts are a big portion of my wardrobe and I pretty much wear them in regular rotation. That said I am married, so not really worried about random sluts' opinion of me. I also wouldn't necessarily wear an EYEHATEGOD shirt to dinner at my wife's parents house.

Bands before hoes.