@bangadrian haha! i'm the only person I know that listens to metal (of any kind). I don't fit your stereotypical metal-listener image. When I wear my metal shirts, my wife says i look like a "freaking redneck". I agree with her assertion. I just think the whole thing is funny though because i don't know where to draw the line. How old can you be and still comfortably wear black t-shirts with band names on them? Is it extremely variable or do you think there is limit? (I don't mean "succumbing to social pressure". I'm wondering if, upon conducting an experiment, one would demonstrate that people stopped wearing metal shirts at say, age 25...or whatever).
Admittedly, I'm not concerned about social image and other people's opinions, but I *am* aware and smart enough to know that certain things can end up acting as barriers. If my beard gives me too much unwarranted attention at work, it's coming off. If the attention metal shirts garner becomes too annoying, then I'll stop wearing them.
As for my tastes in metal becoming jaded as I get older, then so be it. I think it will happen but I don't think there's much I can do about it.
