Whatever Wednesday : don't be that guy

If you've ever seen PCU, you know that Jeremy Piven's character warns Jon Favreau's character :

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

I've been to a few concerts lately where people did NOT go by this rule and this wore their brand new HOT TOPIC purchased t-shirt and thus were beaten up by hipster alterna-nerds and banished from going outdoors for life.


no, not really but they were secretly scorned by hipster alterna-nerds who scoffed at their faux-pas.

The snopes msg boards have some interesting things to say about this and some people are trying to find the origin of this "Rule". #1 if you are going to complain about elitist hipsters coming up with arbitrary rules, don't try to figure out WHY they came up with this arbitrary rule. Just scoff and move on. Otherwise you risk turning into a hipster and then become the thing you hate most.


I liked this guy's comment that there are a few exceptions to this rule:

• Wearing to a concert said band's exceptionally well-preserved but old t-shirt
• Wearing a t-shirt of a band that one of the performing bandmembers was once in/formed as an offshoot (note: not ok in the case of Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jr. or old G'N'R/new G'N'R, e.g.)

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=75;t=000043;p=0

Just don't do it ok? Wear your Jersey Shore t-shirt and be ironic instead.