Around May 2011, I was walking into a Starbucks with my wife and she said “You know, I think this is the third day in a row you’ve worn a Metallica shirt. You probably have so many Metallica shirts I bet you could wear nothing but Metallica shirts all summer!” So, I said “I’ll take that challenge!” Mind you, I didn’t have enough to wear a different Metallica shirt each day of the summer, but I did realize I have quite a few Metallica T-Shirts. So, starting on June 21 (the first day of Summer), I began chronicling each shirt that I owned, in no particular order. Here is my collection from my “Metallica T-Shirt Summer”

1. This is probably my oldest Metallica t-shirt. I believe I got this in the summer of '96 just after Load came out.
   

2. Each year the Metallica Fan Club sends you a new t-Shirt. This was 2008, celebrating 15 years of the Official Metallica Fan Club. (nothing on the back)
   

3. This was a "fan pick the color" shirt (this was the color I chose, coincidentally). I'm thinking I got this t-shirt around 2001-02.
   

4. Metclub 2011 t-shirt - Front and Back.
   

5. I wish I could say I got this 20 years ago and have held onto it since... but the truth is I got it at Springfield Mall around 2006.
   

6. Obviously purchased at Summer Sanitarium 2003. I look back at this show with mixed feelings. This was the ONLY show that I have ever won Meet and Greet passes for. I was so excited. Unfortunately I had to work that day but I managed to get off at noon to head up to the show. I was coming from Northern Virginia into DC, so I figured 3 hours would give me PLENTY of time (you had to be there no later than 3:00 for the meet and greet). With non-stop construction on 495 it took me FOUR HOURS to get to the venue, AND I missed The Deftones set which is the other band I was looking forward to seeing the most at the show.
   

7. Purchased on April, 24th, 2004 in Roanoke, VA. I remember TWO things about this show. 1) It was HOT!! The AC in the building was messed up and Metallica actually cut their encore short because of the heat. 2) I had to go to the ER and get 15 stitches in my chin after this show. I literally got caught in a mosh, and was slammed in the chin by the top of some bald dude's head.
   

8. Death Magnetic t-shirt that was only available if you purchased the Death Magnetic Coffin Box set. My coffin is off center...
   

9. Metclub 2007 t-shirt - Front and Back. Incidentally, I have about three more tatoo's in mind, and this is one of them. Just the "bat" portion, but pretty much exactly where it is on my back in this picture.
   

10. Metclub 2002 t-shirt.
    

11. This shirt came with the Fan Can 5 in 2003 that only certain club members were able to receive. The Fan Can also included a DVD with 4 rare live performances and St. Anger live in studio performance, and a CD of their St. Anger tour rehearsal shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco.
    

12. This t-shirt reads, "This I Swear". This is from Fan Can VI which came out around the end of 2010.
    

13. Metclub 2006 t-shirt – Front and Back.
    

14. Metclub 2010 t-shirt - glows in the dark. I was in Pittsburgh when I took this, hence the hotel backdrop.
    

15. Metclub 2005 t-shirt.
    

16. Metclub 1996 t-shirt. This was my first Metclub t-shirt.
    

17. MetClub 2009 t-Shirt. Cool shirt, I should wear it more often.
    

18. Metclub 2004 t-shirt.
    

19. Hockey Jersey that my wife got me for Christmas around 2001. [Ed. Technically this isn't a t-shirt!!! HA HA!]
    

20. I got this one at the Big 4. Technically it was still summer – September 14, 2011. AWESOME show!! Never been to New York, Never taken a train, hadn’t seen Anthrax since 2005 and hadn’t seen Slayer since 1994! So, this was quite the show. I also got an Anthrax shirt at this show but we can save that for my “METAL T-Shirt summer” next year.