Day 123

It's that time again.
Time to delve into the Mystery Package* and retrieve another unknown band-flavoured article from the T-shirty abyss. My fate is entirely in the hands of the Play.com fulfillment team responsible for stuffing this bundle on the floor at my feet. I've decided I'm going to do this every Friday on a weekly basis until all the tees in the package have been worn, and on that tenth day of blind T-shirt selection, either Matt or myself will emerge the victor of the package. Either he will succeed in making me look foolish more times than he doesn't, or he will fail if I actually approve of the majority of the Mystery Package contents.

Last week the Mystery Package spawned a tee of a hugely dissatisfying proportions, giving Matt the nudge ahead early on. But what will the Mystery Package hold for me today?

Please be an Offspring T-shirt. Please be an Offspring T-shirt. Please be an Offspring T-shirt.



Well this isn't an Offspring T-shirt.
This is quite obviously a HIM T-shirt, as the prominent background logo text indicates. It actually appears to just be a reconstituted print of the Screamworks : Love In Theory And Practice album cover, pentagram and all.
HIM are a band I know little about, but I do know someone who was once a pretty huge fan of the Finnish rockers who can hopefully tell me more. According to my niece, these chaps are of the miserable, romantic persuasion, professing poetic love stories wrapped in gloom and despair. Allegedly clouded by the influence of drugs, the lead singer once slammed his faulty microphone down at the stage during a gig in Brixton, before hurling it at the audience.
Commendable.

But onto the crux of the matter - the design of this tee. Who has prevailed in this week's installment of the Mystery Package? Well, it is with much regret that I once again pass the torch to Matt. This T-shirt just doesn't do it for me - I've never really felt at ease with sporting a photo-realistic effigy of someone else on my chest for reasons other than irony (and even then there would need to be drinking involved at some point in the day), especially if its a band I'm not all that keen on in the first place.
I may well be the first person in history to voluntarily wear a promotional band T-shirt promoting a band I in no way wish to promote.
Twice.
Across two consecutive Fridays.
But that's the beauty of the THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge...

*For a proper introduction to the Mystery Package, have a re-read of the post just after Day 102.