I've not yet made physical copies of the shirts, but they'll look a lot like this if you order one.
Printed on Kelly Green, Union Made, USA grown and fabricated cloth! You can't get a shirt better than this! And inexpensive too! Holy cow, you can't afford NOT to get one!
I've been asking the same question over at my Etsy shop with this t-shirt:
Granted right now, it's just a design... to save money, I'm going to wait until I have an order to make the screens and print a copy... but then I'll have photos of the real deal!
Cat can be seen here sporting a lovely "Kill And Eat The Rich" t-shirt by The Punk Patriot. Also, Cat appears to have eaten all but the tie of a wall street hedge fund manager. Thanks Cat! Also, nice photo!
They told us when they took our jobs overseas, "No hard feelings. It's just business, you know?" They told us when they destroyed our 401ks through gambling with our money, "No hard feelings. It's just business, you know?" They told us when we fell behind on our mortgage and foreclosed on our house, kicking us to the street, "No hard feelings. It's just business, you know?" As more and more people were forced on welfare, the government's budget started to look grim. When they cut welfare spending entirely so that they could enjoy bigger tax cuts to "stimulate the economy," they told us, "No hard feelings. It's just business, you know?"
Then the poor had nothing left to eat, and no place to go.
So they had to kill and eat the rich.
They descended on Wall Street by the millions, stopping all traffic.
Their numbers were so large, the police couldn't do anything to stop the massive crowd of the disenfranchised. They flooded the buildings of Wall Street, the halls of DC, of the McMansions of Texas, and like a horde of zombies, they tore into the flesh of the horrified wealthy, who screamed and shat themselves, knowing that they were powerless to stop the oncoming mass of gnashing teeth and hungry mouths.
And as the poor picked the bones clean over the burning piles of money, the poor said to the bones:
"No hard feelings. It's just business, you know?"
Available in sizes S-XL $10 on etsy.com If you buy in bulk, the price goes down. Email me for more details.
Screenprinting shirts is a time paradox. The actual act of printing the shirt, putting the ink through the screen, only takes a few seconds.
Everything else though, takes up a lot of time.
Designing the shirt. Breaking down a multi-color design into separate layers can be a huge pain in the ass, and very tedious, but it's totally worth it in the end.
Prepping your transfers. On a mulicolor design, you have to make sure that every transfer is perfectly lined up, or your design will be all wonky, and your layers won't match up. Even if you aren't working on a multi-color design, you have to make sure your screen is lined up, or you will find yourself adjusting and readjusting your shirt underneath the screen to make sure it centers well. If you're doing a run of shirts, the screen gets covered with ink which blocks your view of the shirt underneath. If your design isn't centered on the screen, forget it.
Waiting for emulsion to dry. I find myself wasting the most time waiting for my emulsion to dry on the screen because I want to get right to printing shirts as soon as possible. So I keep checking my screens over and over to see if they are dry. If you are using photo emulsion, and you aren't working on an air-conditioned environment (which I am not), it can take as little as a couple hours and as much as two days for your emulsion to fully dry, depending on the humidity levels in the ambient air. If you jump the gun and do a photoburn on a screen whose emulsion has not fully dried, you will find yourself washing most of the emulsion right off the screen, leaving a big, ugly, patchy hole in your design. And since not ALL of the emulsion comes off, you still have to clean the screen, wasting emulsion remover and time in the process.
Waiting for Ink to dry I use an artist quality fabric ink, as I dont' have the facilities for a big professional operation with plastic inks or a flash burner to solidify my ink. So I have to wait for the ink to dry. Usually 24 hours for it to fully dry. Then, after it has dried, I have to heat seal the ink to the shirt. I use an iron. The idea is to iron the shirt until you see smoke coming up from the ink, but without burning it. Depending on how big the design is, that can take as little as 5 minutes, or as long as 30 minutes, doing the shirt in sections. The worst thing that could possibly happen is that I miss a spot, or I don't iron it for long enough, and the ink ends up washing right out of the shirt when my customer washes it.
Shipping It's about a 30 min ride to the post office and back.
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On in 2001, on 9-11, the WTC was struck by two planes. Before the buildings came down, the scene was swarming with employed agents of a socialist organization. An organization with their headquarters right in New York City. Was this an international conspiracy by socialists? You’re watching the Punk Patriot.
Are you KIDDING me? Those socialists were all first responders- EMTs, Police, and Fire Fighters. They’re HEROES, remember? Everybody worshiped and diefed these folks, and I think rightfully so. They were all responding to a higher calling. They were there to save lives. They get paid the same whether they are pulling injured civilians from the burning rubble of a terrorist attack, or if they are sitting in the station playing cribbage. Why? Because the Fire Department is a socialist organization. YUP! The heroes of 9-11 were all agents of socialism! It didn’t always used to be this way. Prior to the socialist model for Fire Departments, we used to have private fire companies. The first Government-Funded Fire department was started in 1898. It was a socialist model that replaced the private fire company model. Under the private model fire companies would compete with one another to be the ones to respond to a fire in order to get payment from fire insurance companies. Now on it’s face, that seems like a good thing, right? They all compete to be first! That totally ignores human psychology. As so often happens when you start attaching profits to something, these private fire companies became extremely corrupt, and would actively prevent other fire companies from responding to a fire to make sure that their company would be first and only, through activities like sending a person ahead of their pump wagon with a barrel. This "Barrel Sitter" would place his barrel over the fire hydrant, and sit on the barrel to prevent other fire companies from gaining access to it, and thus becoming the first to respond. While these schmucks fought over profits, fire destroyed homes and took the lives of those trapped by the flames and smoke. To make matters worse, private fire companies refused to put out fires that affected homes that were too poor to afford fire insurance plaques, despite there being a definite risk to the public safety. Fire has no regard for the income of residents, rich or poor, and will spread from house to house regardless of whether or not the owner has fire insurance. The socialist model changed all that. Socialism is the model seen in Fire Depts almost everywhere in the United States today.
That's right! Whether they know it or not, your local fire department is filled with Socialists!
Socialism isn’t an international conspiracy-- it’s as American as Apple Pie!
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This is DIY punk for real realzies. I don't outsource my shirts to Zazzle.com
I don't outsource my CDs to CDBABY.com
I even screen print and construct the CD cases myself!
I composed, produced, and performed all the music on this album.
A solid album of music that you'll probably like if you're into Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Tortise, Tim Fite, John Cage, Chemical Brothers, Mannheim Steamroller, or Erik Satie.
Light green text on dark green shirt, one of the many varieties available. You pick and choose your colors.
It's an HTML joke! In Helvetica! (for those who follow those things.)
Also, seriously, end war. Not just the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the idea that forcing people in one country to kill people in another country proves something.
Since these are handmade, they are available in a near infinite number of color combinations.
Many other color combos are available. Just ask. Also, be sure to include what SIZE you want in your order.
Light green text on dark green shirt again, but in poorer lighting. T-Shirts, as always, are $10 per each, $5 shipping and handling.
Handmade goods by real people are the shit, and you know it.
This particular version is slanted silver text on fuscia (or pink, I guess) background. You can have any color combo you want if you just email me at punkpatriot411 [at] gmail [dot] com
Are you the badass who's got the balls to wear this shirt to a 4th of July party?
Think this shirt is offensive? Dude-- TORTURE is offensive.
We're America, and like it or not, we tortured people. As a matter of policy, we tortured. No matter how many times politicians say we didn't, we did, and we did it on purpose.
Red, White and Blue Acrylic on Grey. Men's medium. Also available in other sizes and on other background colors. Email me at punkpatriot411[at]gmail[dot]com to make a custom order.
Ah yes, America and Torture, they go together like Apple Pie and Cyanide.
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