Band T-shirts: 'I warn you – don't throw them out'

The band T-shirt is a phenomenon that not only gives teenagers a sense of belonging, as Jude Rogers discovered – it's also about adults holding on to the passions of youthMy first was REM. It was white, loose, and had a chequerboard on the front. I bought it, secretly, from the back pages of NME; I ran for the postman every morning, before my mother did, to check if it had arrived. The day it came, I ran upstairs, locked the door and put it on. Fifteen years old, there I was in my first band T...

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