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Woot Shirts FTW

June 21, 2009 11:41 PM

love t-shirts. They're comfortable and versatile and, best of all, they give you a great platform from which to express your love of a band or your irreverent sense of humor. In high school, I had enough Smashing Pumpkins t-shirts to last for two weeks without repeats. I also had several shirts from Hot Topic because, hey, Hot Topic was awesome when i was thirteen. Fucking deal with it.

But the problem is that most t-shirts are sort of boring or just far too cliche for people to really wear. For example, the first time I saw a "Trust me, I'm a lawyer" shirt in the law school, I thought, "Ha, that's sorta funny." But then when everyone had them, they started to be really annoying. This is why I love Woot Shirts.

They have a new design every day, and they only cost $10. The shirts are designed by members of the Woot Shirt community, so the designs are extremely varied, even though they tend heavily towards varying iterations of geek. But still, the people who design these things are talented.

Shirts are only available for $10 for one day. After that, the twenty-five most popular ones are available for $15, until they drop off of the top twenty-five (i.e., the reckoning), at which time they become completely unavailable. There's a different design competition--called a derby--each week, with the top three most popular designs being the Woot Shirts for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Past derbies include steam punk, bbq, and something about the literal representation of expressions.

Some of these shirts are really, really awesome. As a bit of a grammar dork, I really liked "The Quick Brown Fox." I think that "The Impostor" is really cute. I'm not sure which one is my favorite, though: my time-travel geek side prefers "It Came Out of Nowhere," but the side of me that likes cute penguins and steampunk prefers "The Aviator." So I did the only reasonable thing: I bought them both.

In fact, that's the only problem with the Woot Shirts: they're really fucking addictive. At this rate, I'll have enough Woot Shirts to last me a year without doing laundry. Which, I guess, wouldn't be an altogether bad thing.



1 Comments


frank x. said:

The last time you thought hot topic was cool you were older than 13. Nerd!

June 22, 2009 9:45 AM



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