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So, having listed a short series of coveted, vintage Cramps tees at rather steep (though still \"market\") prices, I figured I\'d better blend in some more affordable ones for the broker kids. No need for anyone to feel left out, cause they\'re all still dope, including this never-before-seen gem: promo tee for a single called \"The Crusher.\"Now, full disclosure: I had never even heard of this single (let alone this tee), but apparently it was originally released in 1981.Cramps fans are accustomed to this by now. In the relatively short period of time that they were together, The Cramps wrote songs and toured, spending ungodly amounts of time in the studio, laying down tracks, whatever they had at the moment, at times working out newer material and sometimes rerecording older stuff. They recorded prolifically, and they--like all punk bands at the time--were broke; and, studio time being exceedingly expensive, one wonders where the money came from. Who knows, but I have my suspicions. A quick aside. When I was an undergrad at UMass Amherst, my friends and I were annoyed that the campus gym, \"Boyden,\" was always so crowded, so we worked out a scheme. We befriended the custodian on the graveyard shift (it wasn\'t hard: a middle-aged janitor, working alone in the dead of night, he was psyched to be kicking it with the kids). We\'d literally go to the gym after midnight and bang on the door (no cell phones back then), and Lester would let us in. We even renamed the gym: \"Lester\'s Late Night Emporium.\" We\'d have the whole place to ourselves, and no one ever found out (I\'m quite sure that this is the first-ever documentation of this clandestine venture). See, this was the kind of thing that you could pull off prior to social media (nothing ever got \"posted\" and no one ever got \"cancelled\"). Stories of bands cooking up similar schemes back then are ubiquitous. By hook or by crook, bands like Black Flag and Circle Jerks got into the studio and laid down tracks, often without having to incur the extravagant expense. Broke and determined artists were able to work \"angles\" back then, and so that\'s why we have all of these \"off menu\" recordings (like \"Gravest Graves\"--the latest \"lost\" Cramps album that was discovered quite recently). So, circling back around to the tee in question here, it\'s obviously a very rare gem--a limited \"run\" to say the least (I\'d never seen it before, and that\'s saying something). And it\'s an absolute banger. The tag is long gone, but I\'m calling it a \"medium,\" just based on vintage standards (see the pics for the precise dimensions). Regardless, it\'s certainly 100% cotton,flawless and form-fitting (just look at the pics). And since I got it cheap, I can afford to pass it on that way. Grab it while you still can; it won\'t last terribly long. Crampingly dope.