82588 Shirt and New MySpace Post *Shirt No Longer Available*

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Design by Shadow Monster.

All the info you need regarding this shirt is in the following MySpace post:

So the Kerrang awards happened Thursday night. We won an award called "The Spirit Of Independence Award", which according to host Scott Ian(before he was a "VH1 Celebrity" he was actually in a rad little band called "Anthrax", kids) goes to an "uncompromising band that manages to break rules and stay outside of the mainstream" or something like that. Basically they should just call it the "Total Badass" award. If you're a girl, we're like the guy who wears shitty clothes, hangs out with people your parents don't approve of, doesn't appear to have a real job, but is somehow smarter, kicks more ass, mysteriously has more money, drives a better car, and fucks better than your boring rolex wearing white bread boyfriend. Spirit of Independence? That's the DEP way, don't they know that? Anyhow, we got recognized, and sent Ben Weinman and Asian Steve across the pond to receive the award.

Ten minutes into the award ceremony, I get a text from Ben saying that we are seated right next to Metallica. Oh....killer. I think at that moment I was doing something really awesome like pumping gas or something and started to begin to question my decision not to go.

So nine hours later I get a call from Ben, and he tells me a tale of tales that will live on in infamy. The following events were real and actually happened:

-Ben and Asian Steve got onstage and accepted the award on behalf of The Dillinger Escape Plan....pretty awesome, great honor. Bands that we are huge fans of like Metallica and Rage Against The Machine stand and applaud...the surrealism begins. Thanks Kerrang, and thanks to our friends in the UK, you have always always been consistently some of our favorite people to play for, and some of the best and most supportive people in the world for us.

(Here's where the story goes into a world of surrealism that surpasses even Salvador Dali's most bizarre imaginations)

-Later, Metallica accepts some award, and sends a shout out to Asian Steve.

-Backstage....Lars Ulrich comes up to Ben and the Asian and goes "Yo! You're Asian Steve!"

-Today, actually at this moment, Metallica is playing Reading fest, and Ben and Asian Steve have been there hanging out and kicking it with them all day. They are completely aware of both "'87 Hetfield" and the significance of "82588". At the rate this story is unfolding, Asian Steve is probably onstage right now playing third guitar for "Harvester Of Sorrow" or something.

Needless to say my mind is blown. At the instant Lars ran up and called out Asian Steve I would have started punching myself in the face trying to wake up from whatever alternate reality I had gone into. Right now I am convinced that they have entered some sort of matrix of awesomeness, a parallel dimension of some sort where instead of a white rabbit with a flavor flav clock jumping down holes, a little danish drummer of the greatest metal band of all time runs up to Asian Steve and recognizes him out loud by name. I no longer question my choice not to go. It goes beyond that. If I see any of you, at any time, and you ask me why I didn't go...I will punch you straight in the face. They are apparently filming a lot, so we'll get some footage of everything up when they get back.

So anyhow, the Party Smasher shirt sold out, and tomorrow we will have the 82588 shirt up for sale on the main page. Tomorow is, of course, 8/25/08. The catch is this. This shirt will ONLY BE ON SALE TOMORROW. Forever. That's it. It goes up tonight at midnight EST, and goes down tomorrow night at midnight PST. I'm throwing an extra three hours in there, just as a cushion for people on the west coast. But that's it. After that, this shirt will never ever ever be available again. We aren't limiting it to a particular number of copies, we're just selling it tomorrow, and that's it forever. So tonight, when the clock hits midnight on the east coast of the US, or 5am in the UK, 6am in Europe, 9pm on the west coast of the US, whatever the hell time Australia/Japan/New Zealand operates on, up it goes. Here's a preview...(please don't sue us Lars! I know you're reading! It's an homage!!!)

EDIT: Inspired by the Metallica album "...And Justice For All", and the lady justice visual, this limited edition "82588 : NO JUSTICE FOR ANY" shirt features a headless Lady Justice crumbling and falling apart on the front, with "Dillinger Escape Plan" written in the classic Metallica "Justice" font at the bottom, and the uneven scales of justice being tipped by money on the back. This shirt is only going to be available from now until August 26th, a little over a 24 hour period. Don't miss out, this is going to be a Dillinger shirt that will end up being a collector's item for sure. After today, you will never be able to get it again unless you scour Ebay and get lucky but I'm sure nobody's ever gonna give it up. Check it out on our main page. Then after you order one make sure you listen to something gnarly off of that album like "Dyer's Eve", or "Shortest Straw", or the middle part of "Blackened" on a loop for 30 minutes, and close your ehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifyes and soak in the pure unadulterated majesty of pure 87 Hetfield storming around like a lion with a giant white ESP Explorer that says "EET FUK" on it or something oddly cool. Or better yet, if you're a noob who thinks Metallica is just some band of old dudes who put out some terrible song on the Mission Impossible 47 soundtrack, you should probably go check THIS out. Please try to control your boner.

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