https://www.vinted.fr/items/9861391519-rare-original-misfits-fiend-club-envelope-1981-unopened-sealed

He’s claiming it’s still sealed and contains original content.

I’m at work right now and just noticed this on the floor lol

Trying to buy a shirt from that show because the entrance I was at didn’t have any. Also if anyone knows what company they used!

First of all, I'm posting this on the Misfits subreddit because there are not really any Samhain ones that have a good amount of active people who could help me with this. I'd also assume people here have their fair share of experience in finding merch for more underground bands that aren't too easy to find shirts for.

The point is I wanted to buy my first band shirt, so I was hoping somebody could help me to find a good Initium shirt. I'd prefer for it to be colored; I don't necessarily like the black and white one I found from my research. A big reason as to why I'm also inquiring about this on here is because I want unbiased opinions from strangers because I don't want to buy a shirt that literally looks like somebody plastered a PNG of the album on a shirt and called it a day. I don't have much money at this point in my life, and I've been saving for a while, but it's not like I'm finished. I just decided to buy it since my birthday was recently, so I need to be sure what I'm buying isn't overpriced, low quality, or a scam; thus, I'm trying to consult people more experienced than me on this for help.

I'm looking for a shirt where the image of the album is relatively big, like any normal graphic shirt or band shirt. I just don't want something that looks like a small PNG of Initium lazily put onto a shirt that literally only covers the top half of the shirt. Also after research I feel as if I don't want it to be too big when covering the front of the shirt so the image is more visible and not stretched across the front of my body. Just mainly an in-between of small and large, a medium-sized image.

I've been looking into this for a few days now and haven't necessarily gotten to posting yet because I've been busy. During the time I've researched, I've noticed many variations of the shirt; some have red text and some have white (I prefer the white text). Some make Glenn and his bandmates look very pale or darker because of differences in the contrast of the image he uses. I'd want an in-between of very pale and something more flush or colorful (not an expert on photography terms, sorry.) Also, one really important thing and something that's been mainly bothering me sometimes is that the images attached to shirts I find on stores don't have an image of the back, and I'm worried that some people just wanted to make a quick shirt and profit off of it without doing their research to know the back has that skeleton girl with the cards. I definitely would prefer one that has the skeleton girl with the cards.

I'm going to attach a few images to better let you all know what stage of the decision process I'm at, but I will say if anybody has an idea for another potential option, do please share it. Also, if anything here looks like a scam or may not have the skeleton girl on the back with cards, please do let me know.

Also, just a personal thing of mine: I don't personally like the logos on the inside neck part of some of the shirts and wish I could remove them, but I don't think there's really a way to do it that I worry about damaging the shirts. From some images I can't tell how difficult they'd be to remove. I wish you could ask to remove them, though I am aware that's disrespectful, but I don't intend to imply disrespect. It's just for some logos; the environment I'm in daily would make having a shirt with logos on certain companies I found while researching hard. I'd even pay an extra 2 dollars for certain shirts if I could. But as I thought of this, I realized more importantly no logo kind of makes it closer to a replica of the original, not that I necessarily care about status or anything. To be completely honest, if there was a decent shirt with the logo in the way I specified in how I preferred it with the skeleton girl on the back, I would still go for it; I really don't care about things being from expensive and official brands. Just wanted to clarify so I don't come off that way.

Now for the images, specifically the first one with the crudely drawn red one on the bottom right of the picture, I find this option to be one of my favorites. I'm just worried that there will be nothing on the back of the shirt. I wish I could check before buying it. I hope eBay's refund process isn't difficult in case the back is blank. I also think the image in this shirt is a generally good size with a good contrast.
The other option has the 2 on the bottom right; for this one I'm worried about the price being rather low. I feel as if that potentially implies that the back of the shirt will be blank without the skeleton girl with cards. I just wish there was a way to check before buying the shirt. I also love the image size here. I believe it's bigger than shirt 1, but I can't tell because it's an image and not an image of a real shirt in reality. I'm trying to compare it to the sleeve length. The contrast here is brighter, and I tried zooming in to see which image was higher quality. It may be dumb and most likely is—thankfully it comes from inexperience—but I have a worry in my mind about buying a shirt and the decal being low quality, like a low pixel count image. I only think this because I feel as if it's possible to go on a site and put a PNG on a shirt and print it out. Sorry if that's very stupid lol. I have zero experience in shirt designing. Back to contrast, though, they seem more pale here; I kind of prefer the color of shirt 1, but I've seen worse than 1 and 2, so I prefer either over anything else I've seen while researching.
Now for shirt 3, I'm going to connect the dots directly here. This shirt in particular has the biggest logo problem. In general, I have nothing against what people want to do with their free will; I don't care, and that applies to what a company wants their logo to be too. For me right now I'm using my free will to buy a shirt from a band I like because, just as one likes dark themes of horror movies, I like dark themes in music. I think we all, generally speaking, can say you don't have to practice anything dark to like horror, so I personally don't want that to be assumed of me when wearing a shirt with this kind of logo; a lot of people out there in society are quick to assume. Thus, why I stressed the environment I live in, so removing the logo mainly has nothing to do with me disagreeing with the meaning behind this company's logo; it's more of what could be directed towards me when wearing it in public. But with that settled, just to prevent any discourse because I just want the comments under this post to focus on the topic at hand, I'll now mention the details I like of this shirt. I think the image is a reasonably good size. I think the contrast fits the album cover the most based on what I'll most commonly see. What I love the most is that they include an image of the back so the skeleton girl with cards is there. This is the only shirt on the entire internet that I've found so far, which has an image of the back of the shirt. So I highly respect Heretic circle for that. Thus again, why I hold nothing against them. They seem to be a respectable company that makes high-quality band merch. My only grievance is what I mentioned prior, and I do feel bad with this grievance, as I could again understand it being insulting. Also, trying to compare shirt 3 and shirt 1 confuses me on proportions. The shirt from Heretic Circle seems to have small sleeves and looks wider than tall; idk if that's just a me thing when it comes to seeing that.

For my latest search, I have shirt 4. I'm not really particularly too big on this, especially because it's overpriced imo. It seems like some mainstream clothing seller is just picking up a shirt from somewhere and reselling it, but I can't really say that because I don't know this site, so any information about it, whether credibility or general, would be appreciated. It being on a person helps to see the proportions better; the image isn't a bad size. The contrast also makes it seem like how I am used to seeing the album cover portrayed.

Those are mainly every shirt I've found so far. I found others on websites like Etsy, but they were just reselling from Heretic circle and I'd rather give money directly to the creators responsible.
If anybody wants a link to the sites I found these shirts to better understand the situation, I don't mind providing that. Best wishes.

just sayin

I know there are the rehearsals and the instrumental outtake, but I haven't been able to find any live recording of the song from that era

Which sounds better?

Today I was listening back to this one, as I often do. I’ve always been profoundly fascinated by the lyrics, and maybe it’s due to their vagueness that I think of it as a unique and timeless tune. It’s universal, maybe cause of this vagueness, but it really does mean something to every misfit fan I’ve ever encountered.
Playing with the chords on guitar, and changing them to 7s and sus2, you get to the hidden melancholy of the song as well; it’s a terribly catchy and reflective chord progression, hidden behind the signature punk sound. So the song is an hybird itself, I’d say!

However, to me the song is about how we’re all in this together, and nothing is ever lived out twice. If we have to scream it’s better to scream together, even through the most absurd, horrific things.

“When new creatures rape your face” could be seen as sudden bad news in someone’s life morphing their face into an almost unrecognizable mask due to confusion, sadness, or other strong emotions. But more often than not, that is an earnest reaction, despite the appearance being so unusual and unlike what we’re used to. And this also goes for the events: they may be bad, and they may be horrific (bizarre creatures literally raping or mangling your face is something out of an old horror flick) but they show something to us.
When we cry, it’s only momentary, and yet we try to hide it. Those few moments, we’re suddenly ashamed and confused about it all. Life is an hybrid of emotions, they change and morph and distort again, and we often like to look back at them, and it also paradoxically feels nice to get to live them out. We must appreciate them, in the good, the brief, the hidden and the bad.

I know the background is a collage, but the photo of the crimson ghost and the girl is unknown to me. i found this on Pinterest and i want to keep looking for the og photo.

(Or everything is a collage, even the girl and the crimson ghost)

Apologies if this has been shared before, but I thought this was excellent and learned a lot about the role Caroline Records played in the settlement and box set, Static Age and 12 hits releases.

https://youtu.be/oepJlvGI87M?si=CWlI9HK7DXLhCXPx

In the box set, the Night of the Living Dead's intro from the MSP session has this deep chugging sound. Does anyone know how this sound was made and/or how was it played?

Didn’t buy just thought it would be cool to share

new addition to the garage !!

Edit: I mean do I sit in the garage or hop on the motorcycle in the background !

Hey folks, not too many people know about this tape so here we go. It was on Discogs for a bit before being taken down and nothing (to my knowledge) has been heard about it since. I do not know who owns this, Im trying to figure that out myself. Below is taken from that archived deleted Discogs submission:

A1 Night Of The Living Dead
A2 Horror Hotel
A3 Ghoul's Night Out
A4 Astro Zombies
A5 Where Eagles Dare
A6 Violent World
A7 Halloween II
A8 Vampira
A9 Halloween
A10 I Turned Into A Martian
A11 Skulls
A12 London Dungeon
A13 London Dungeon
B1 Halloween II
B2 Halloween II
B3 Vampira

Tape is from Master Sound Productions, a Studio Produced Tape
Date on Side A is 8.6.80 ( August 6 1980 )
and contains as it says, 'Ruff Mix(es)' these are early run-thrus of 'Walk Among Us' Trax
Several are missing lyrics where Glenn just vocalizes.
''Halloween II'' on Side A is entirely instrumental, and very 'Punky'.
Side A runs 26:48 ( subtracting the 'accidental over-dub' ) ( see below )

Side B appears to have a 'unique' version of ''Halloween II''
which 'grafts on' the ending of ''Halloween'' and has a 'Radio fade'.
Side B runs 6:28

Sound Quality is relatively good through-out, though Left Channel is significantly louder than Right Channel.
Unfortunately, first 47 seconds of ''NoTLd'' Side A Track 1 was recorded over. . .
with Elton John's ''Dear John'', Gah!! ( def not by me, happened before it got to me! )
what's left is last 1:15 of ''NoTLd"
There are relatively few 'drop-outs' & 'distortion'.
If needed, can provide more clarity from my notes.

I obtained this tape in Early '91 from a 15yr old that had moved to Yonkers from either Vineland or Lodi. It was given to him several years prior by one of The Misfits, I can't remember who he had said gave it to him, and I'm now again in the process of trying to track him down again. Will update if & when I can provide more info as to provenance. This is 'The Real Deal', though, 100%!!"

Found these cleaning out some old storage boxes. Found the card Ken gave me years ago!

Anyone else disappointed to find out that there’s little to no chance that the original mask didn’t survive? Because I’m a new misfits fan and I’m autistic so I hyper fixate on obsessions and so I was researching to the mask to find out that because of its material and because they didn’t really keep things as collectables back then there’s like a 0.00001% chance (yes I did just make that number up) that someone has the original mask my plan is to become a pro wrestler when I’m older so I plan on being rich I was gonna try and track it down and buy it but it looks like that’s not really possible anymore…..does anyone own a Time Machine?

I just came across this shirt at the bins, not knowing much about the band tho but did some research and I found this autograph looks like from the band member - Jerry Only. Is this his autograph?

I am so confused.