How many vintage band t-shirts do you have? Sorry, this doesn’t include the $10 AC/DC shirt you got at Target last year.
If you’ve hung onto your vintage band t-shirts over the past few decades, you might be sitting on a small pot of gold. There was a study to determine financial returns on tees from notable rock bands.
Spreadshirt analyzed over 84,000 listings of band and artist t-shirts that were sold on popular resale websites between December 2023 and September 2024.
Rock bands particularly had a high resale value. A Grateful Dead t-shirt apparently sold for $2,750! A Nirvana In Utero is also going for $2,000, Soundgarden’s Louder Than Love t-shirt for $1,350, and Metallica’s Load t-shirt for $1,250.
Here are the top-ranked bands overall, and rock bands:
Bands Overall
- Nirvana
- Average resale value: $279
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Average resale value: $241
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Average resale value: $235
- Outkast
- Average resale value: $225
- Guns N’ Roses
- Average resale value: $188
- Green Day
- Average resale value: $186
- Paul McCartney
- Average resale value: $180
- Kanye West
- Average resale value: $179
- Pearl Jam
- Average resale value: $171
- XXXTenacion
- Average resale value: $163
Rock Bands
- Nirvana
- Average resale value: $279
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Average resale value: $241
- Guns N’ Roses
- Average resale value: $188
- Green Day
- Average resale value: $186
- Pearl Jam
- Average resale value: $171
- Oasis
- Average resale value: $160
- Pink Floyd
- Average resale value: $158
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Average resale value: $158
- Metallica
- Average resale value: $153
- AC/DC
- Average resale value: $102
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