Hi everyone – welcome to the 100th edition of thanks it’s from eBay. That number means I’ve spent a lot of time on a website that looks like it hasn’t been updated since its inception in 1995. In sticking with the centennial theme, I rounded up over 100 vintage t-shirts. I tried to separate them into categories but wires may have gotten crossed along the way, so I recommend checking out all of the categories. Feel free to share with your friends, enemies, whomever.
Separately, one of the biggest questions I get asked is how I do my sourcing. I’ve shied away from answering this question in the past, because it’s taken me a lot of time, and inevitable trial and error, to learn what I’ve learned. But in honor of my 100th piece, I’ve decided to share some of my tips and tricks for finding the best items on eBay. This newsletter will be hitting your inboxes tomorrow, but it will be behind the paywall. So if you want to support my work financially, now is the perfect time. You can upgrade to a paid subscription now to automatically read it in full when it goes out.
Note: A lot of this advice could probably be applied to any secondhand site (or even when shopping secondhand in person).
Thank you all for reading and supporting this fun little project of mine. It really does mean the world to me.
1995 bank of america earth day t-shirt
1980s marine corps t-shirt
single-world cruises and tours t-shirt
the mighty class of 1990 t-shirt
hard rock cafe honolulu t-shirt
1979 marine corps marathon t-shirt
1979 new york marathon t-shirt
fanny bay inn shuck me, suck me, eat me raw oyster t-shirt or louisiana oyster option
pride in public education t-shirt
1996 ge earth day t-shirt
happiness is positive cashflow t-shirt
pan am baseball team t-shirt
wyoming centennial a lasting legacy t-shirt
i cried 10 days straight in mason city, iowa t-shirt
1998 gillette france world cup t-shirt
one teacher can shape a child, one child can shape the world t-shirt
westwood environmental club t-shirt
1996 atlanta olympics t-shirt
always america’s favorite betty boop t-shirt
los angeles garlic festival t-shirt
jackson hole wildlife film festival t-shirt
yeah baby 101.5 radio show t-shirt
giving blood is no sweat t-shirt
players know best t-shirt
if you can read this, thank a teacher t-shirt
everybody loves a quickie ringer t-shirt
i’m with smith and mandler t-shirt
grandma’s marathon t-shirt
1994 princeton bicycling event t-shirt
1981 us open t-shirt signed by john mcenroe and bjorn borg
1990 us open t-shirt
abercrombie family reunion t-shirt
walker’s winners t-shirt
i’m the type that gives community blood bank t-shirt
new york bred t-shirt
90s nyse t-shirt
topanga school staff t-shirt
90s bad ass girls drive bad ass toys ford t-shirt
90s real women drive chevys
bad boys drive bad toys ford t-shirt
blue pan am t-shirt
indecent proposal promotional t-shirt
ibm t-shirt
at&t long distance t-shirt
capture the moment, create the future goodyear tires t-shirt
gaston textiles building a new sense of community t-shirt
1980s diet pepsi ringer t-shirt
microsoft where do you want to go today t-shirt
1993 intel computer take this show on the road t-shirt
90s ebay t-shirt
front back microsoft t-shirt
bad boys drive bad toys corvette t-shirt
i’m easy! to do business with at&t t-shirt
i’ve got great connections at&t t-shirt and in blue
this bud’s for you budweiser ringer t-shirt
1980s resorts international hotel and casino atlantic city roulette t-shirt
michelin perfect attendance t-shirt
marry me fly standby delta t-shirt
enjoy a diet cherry coke t-shirt
it’s your call at&t t-shirt
what’s pocket sized with all the right connections? t-shirt
ibm let me mind your business t-shirt
red hot & blue t-shirt
hartford ibm club t-shirt
1984 go for the gold salt lake city ibm t-shirt
dunkin donuts aruba it’s worth the trip t-shirt
we mind your e-business t-shirt
nokia connecting people t-shirt
curl up, make it a blockbuster night t-shirt
my performance counts continental airlines t-shirt
wireless email that means business blackberry t-shirt
it’s time you enjoyed a few basic liberties, liberty bank t-shirt
all day, all night todabanker t-shirt
old national bank count on us t-shirt
1960s central park bank t-shirt
80s wizard of wall street t-shirt
you’ll like the way we work t-shirt
merrill lynch is bullish on boulder ringer t-shirt
go the distance, the cma-ira new asset marathon t-shirt
1975 pan am games t-shirt
dirty dicks crab house t-shirt
action banking today tonight this weekend t-shirt
enjoy cherry coke t-shirt
vintage george bush read my lips no new taxes t-shirt 1988
1989 the american bicentennial presidential inaugural t-shirt
1980 anderson ringer t-shirt
1992 election night clinton and gore t-shirt
clinton gore a new generation t-shirt
human rights campaign 1996 clinton gore t-shirt
1970s i run with mayor bilandic t-shirt
politics is not a spectator sport t-shirt
stop nuclear violence t-shirt
right-to-work is a rip-off union t-shirt
imax the ultimate film experience t-shirt
scary movie someone has a sixth sense of humor t-shirt
nostalgia nite at cactus theater lubbock, texas t-shirt
psycho killer talking heads t-shirt
david byrne momo tour t-shirt with roseland ballroom nyc ticket stubs
1995 bewitched ringer t-shirt
the cable guy get wired t-shirt
90s hollywood california film director t-shirt
1977 the beatles at the hollywood bowl capitol records ringer t-shirt
1996 liar liar t-shirt
twister t-shirt
the end of late fees, the start of more blockbuster t-shirt
fox studios paint department t-shirt
caution: man with a tool home improvement t-shirt
farrah fawcett charlie’s angels t-shirt
one big stud home improvement t-shirt
real men don’t need instructions home improvement t-shirt
ucla school of theater, film and television t-shirt
mca home videos t-shirt
hi my name is marshall matthers t-shirt
free truman truman show t-shirt
maxwell cassette tapes it’s good for your heads t-shirt or in a ringer t-shirt
maxwell take your music to the max t-shirt
1977 feels so good chuck mangione t-shirt
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that’s a lot of t-shirts to get through! congrats on your 100th post :) my favorite thrift t-shirt find is a maison margiela aids campaign shirt i got for $17. it says “there is more action to be done to fight AIDS than to wear this t-shirt but it's a good start”
I love a vintage marathon t-shirt, but have not run for more than 10 minutes since high school. Congratulations on 100! Maybe a future post about fun separates to style with vintage t-shirts?