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Shark Attack Blood In The Water Tee

By b. murphy | Published 01/28/2010

Shark Attack is cool. Philly Hardcore at a peak, for sure.

Donating money to charities is cool.

What better way to donate money to a charity than by winning a rad Shark Attack shirt?

That’s just fucking cool. Kudos to the seller.

B9 Cleaning the Closet Again

By b. murphy | Published 12/13/2009

Just a few hours left. B9 brought the heavy weights out.

Here’s one of my faves.

The first American Nightmare EP. This is a friends only press. Rumor has it, B9 has a spreadsheet somewhere that lists what number was given to which person. I like the thought of that. Sort of like a Chung King list. In fact, most of the sleeves were personalized with a name.

New Found Glory’s newest album. Friends press, out of 100. That’s you fighting three hundred thousand girls. Good luck.

And another gem. The Have Heart You Can’t Go Home Again Test Press. #11 out of 25. Great little item here.

TTD loves B9. Go hook Chris and his team up.

American Nightmare AN Zip Up

By b. murphy | Published 12/06/2009

You know that phrase, “you learn something new everyday?” Well, I learned something new yesterday.

It’s about AN Zip ups.

Apparently some goon bootlegged them because they are $$$.

BUT, they didn’t make a perfect copy. They skimped and made imperfect copies.

Below is an original. You can tell it’s the OG version for a few reasons.

1. Jerzees Tag
2. In the “A” there is a no ink, negative space under the middle dash.

The bootlegs lack this negative space.

Good shit, thanks to the B9 board for pointing this out to me.

Update: I talked to the shop that screened these hoods. I was told that 75% of the hoods were on Jerzees, but the others were what they could get. During that era, black zip ups were a hot commodity and the supply was low. So screen printers took whatever they could. The shop was also impressed that people noticed the negative space. He said he would check the screens and get back to me with anymore info.

Terror – 3/4 Sleeved Shirt

By b. murphy | Published 11/24/2009

Earlier this year, I was walking the streets of Las Vegas. I was trying my best to walk from the Mirage to the Undftd/Stussy shop location. Sadly, my phone had no GPS and I wasn’t yet wise to the Google Cell Tower wisdom.

I walked down some street feeling I was going the right way, but started to second guess myself. I turned back after passing someone smoking a butt. I asked this person if I was going the right direction, and they said I was.

Then I realized they were wearing this Terror shirt. Turns out it was some dude who had moved west, but at one point, he had interned at B9. I got to catch him up on all sorts of people he hadn’t heard about in a while.

Sadly, he had already sold all his shit on ebay. Weak. A stack full of tees would have been better than any Stussy tee I would buy that day.

Small world, no doubt.

Give Up The Ghost – Black On Black Hood

By b. murphy | Published 11/22/2009

Remember when using the same ink and sweatshirt was the big, new shit?

It was just a few years back. Everyone was getting in on it. Down To Nothing did those white on white tees (a good look, mind you, can’t go wrong with a white tee), Panic did one (I think), a few others surfaced.

Here’s an example from Give Up The Ghost (American Nightmare). The Angel Knife Rock design thing. This feature would become a favorite tattoo piece of hundreds of kids. Me? I prefer the Matt Rinks artwork.

Bridge 9 Cracks into their Vault

By b. murphy | Published 11/04/2009

Whoa, Bridge9 is opening up their vault and selling some gems.

You best not sleep on these auctions.

Chris B9 says:

We put out a lot of records over the past few months, and racked up a lot of bills, so we dug out some stuff to hit the auction block to help ease the pain. Please check out our auctions here! Thank you!

American Nightmare Test Press. Illy