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 June 2005Cheerio, fresh junkies! The UK mens magazine Loaded profiled VV in their latest issue - click here to read all about it. Watch out for bearded ladies. |
 October 22, 2004The smartypants at the Columbia Fed tell the world about the VVIP Lounge... click here to read all about it. |
 October 17, 2004Wooden teeth never stopped anybody from enjoying fine vintage t-shirts. Click here to read an article in the Washington Post. They might make you register, but it's free... |
 October 7, 2004All the crunchy Eugenians know where to get their voting shirts, thanks Dahvi. Check it out here. |
 October 5, 2004Our boy Sam at the Valley Voices let his sultry tones be heard. Click here for a gander. |
 October 1, 2004At least the poli-sci professor has our back. Click here to read an article about our voting shirt in the Bowling Green student newspaper. |
 September 27, 2003St. Louis - Gateway to the Fresh. Our girl Carrie from the U of M - St. Louis Current had this to say about our voting shirt. |
 Septemer 21, 2004Floridians know all too well that voting is for old people, click here to read what the Orlando Sentinel had to say about it. Thanks Mark. |
 September 20, 2004Who is John Gedde? This inside look by UC Irvine reporter Taraneh Arhamsadr explores his unforeseen controversy. |
 September 17, 2004Free voting t-shirts and election day seem to be a match made in heaven. So sayeth the Boulder Daily Camera, check it out. |
 September 17, 2004When Dustin Williams of the Oklahoma Daily writes, Sooners listen. Or at least read. Click here to read an article known on street corners as "Being Old: Not Just for Voters Anymore?" |
 September 17, 2004University of Arizona journalist Kylee Dawson investigates voting, aging, and other pressing issues in her inside look into the free voting t-shirt scandal. Read it and weep. |
 September 13, 2004Can our much-maligned voting shirt serve the power of good, or is it destined for a life of evil? These are the tough questions posed by crack GWU Hatchet journalist Jesse Stanchak. Click here for the scoop. |
 September 8, 2004The Daily Gamecock scoops the rest of the nation on the voting is for old people free t-shirt story! Click here to see what they had to say about it. |
 September 2004In French fashion magazines, we're lumped in with panda-headed people. Is there no justice? Click here to investigate. |
 June 22, 2004So it seems we're an international sensation. Click here to read an article about our voting shirt in Le Monde, the hottest newspaper in all of Paris, France. I think this loosely translates to something like, "Vintage Vantage is le poop." |
 May/June 2004Want to know how to build a sod couch in your backyard? Make a lamp out of a detergent bottle? Turn a bedspring into a wine rack? A subscription to Readymade Magazine is in your future. Click here to read a little su'in they wrote about VV. |
 April 17, 2004Our Vietnam shirt appeared in the May issue of Maxim, everybody's favorite bathroom read. We promise not to let the last-place finish go to our heads. |
 April 9, 2004Apparently Vintage Vantage is big news these days. Click here to read a story that appeared on the front page of the LA Times Calendar section. |
 March 26, 2004Tired of hearing about our voting t-shirt? Then you probably shouldn't click here to read an interview with John in the Yale Herald. |
 March 9, 2004Time to sum up, people. Click here for the Camp Cool-approved collection of quotes regarding our troublesome voting shirt. |
 March 5, 2004Banned in the USA! In the grand tradition of performance-enhancing steroids and 2 Live Crew, our voting shirt is deemed obscene and yanked from stores across the country. We vow not to let this minor setback thwart our efforts to poison the minds of young Americans and overthrow democracy. In fact, the offending garment is still available for online purchase. Fight the power. |
 March 1, 2004Meet Dan Glickman, the buttoned-up fellow to the right. Dan is with the Harvard Institute of Politics, which is a very serious and important-sounding outfit. And while Dan enjoys being a bureaucrat very much, he has always dreamt of bigger things. Like t-shirt design! Click here to read about Dan's distaste for Camp Cool and his brilliant alternatives to our blatant act of treason. Voting Rocks! |
 February 29, 2004The raging controversy hits fever pitch as everybody's favorite subversive t-shirt appears in the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Out-take from the phone interview - Shaila Dewan: Don't you think you're offending the elderly? John: Offending the elderly? Who said anything about the elderly? It's not like the shirt says "The elderly, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose." Shaila: (silence) John: You know, from Dumb and Dumber? Shaila: Um, I don't believe I've seen it. John: Oh. |
 February 27, 2004They don't call it Long Island for nothing. They call it that because it's far longer than it is wide, and entirely surrounded by water. Thanks be to Monty Phan at LI's Newsday for telling it like it is and giving Joyce something to talk about at the bridge table. |
 February 26, 2004The Lone Star state knows a little somethin about life, liberty and the pursuit of fresh. Colleen over at the Dallas Morning News did a brilliant bit of investigative journalism and discovered what all the Camp Cool loyalists already know - Getting fresh is not a crime. Click here to read about Vintage Vantage bravely battling rap stars, punk rockers, and our long-time nemesis, Kat Storemski. |
 February 26, 2004As amazing as this may sound, one member of the national media decided to tell BOTH sides of the story! Journalism may never be the same. Click here to read the article in the Philadelphia Daily News. Unbiased reporting is SO cutting edge. |
 February 25, 2004Kat Storemski, you're not alone! According to a New York Daily News article, Russell Simmons has added his voice to the empassioned chorus of voting shirt nay-sayers. I guess being an international hip-hop mogul doesn't necessarily mean that you understand irony. Oh well. |
 February 18, 2004"But, like, I don't get it." In an MTV News story televised around the world (the video link is halfway down the page), the very opinionated Kat Storemski eloquently expresses her disapproval of our disgusting voting is for old people t-shirt, and chucks it into her tiny little trash can. So we thought we'd make a replacement... Glad we could be of disservice. |
 February 8, 2004Well I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma, and them there Sooners were fresh like locally grown eggs. Gotta give it up for my boy Mike G at OU for his brilliant article on Camp Cool shenanigans, that boy can write his ass off. |
 January 25, 2004North Cackalacka knows the deal. Thanks to my home slice Jason at the Seahawk, all the crazy college kids at UNC Wilmington are getting fresh with no regard for safety or personal hygeine. Click here for the scizzoop. |
 January 20, 2004What do Paris Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vintage Vantage have in common? Well, for starters, they all appear on "The Hook-Up" section in the National Enquirer, America's most reliable news outlet. Find it any place Slurpees are sold, or click here to read the shocking, scandalous account of vintage t-shirts gone wild. We are so trashy. |
 December 10, 2003Hey, wanna see some pictures of girls wearing no pants? My girl Kena over at the College Times in Tempe, AZ profiled Vintage Vantage is a spanky little pictorial, click here to check it out. If it appears really tiny, mouse over the bottom right corner and click that little thing, it should grow like a sea monkey and become perfectly legible. |
 December 2003Hey, remember Fulltank Magazine? They featured a heartwrenching interview with VV back in June, and invited us back this month to serve as a guest DJ in their ongoing Van Mix series. Canadians, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. Click here and then select "Van Mix 3.0" to see the track listing and a teeny weeny picture of Holden. |
 November 2003Chronological order is for chumps. And Olympia, WA isn't just for bodybuilders anymore. Thanks in large part to one cool little sister, Vintage Vantage got some love in the Olympus, Olympia High School's most prestigious newspaper. Click here for all the sordid details. Thanks Em! |
 December 2003Die-hard fresh junkies have long known that Vintage Vantage and high fashion go together like Top Ramen and Sunny D. But Gentleman's Quarterly? The el salvador vantage original shirt makes an appearance on p. 106 in the December GQ magazine, befuddling Armani-clad stock broker types the world over. Click here to check it out. And then go slick your hair back or something. |
 November 6, 2003Duquesne isn't just incredibly difficult to spell. It's also a four-year continuation school filled with brilliant young writers. One such luminary, my girl Glynnis, wrote an insightful and in-depth profile of Vintage Vantage happenings. Click here to get to the site, and enter "vintage" into the search field to find the article. |
 September 29, 2003That Nat guy was a real hardass, always getting on Brandon's case to work, work, work, when all he wanted to do was gel his hair and look wussy. That has little to nothing to do with the fine article that Pittsburgh-based wordsmith Ashley McGuire wrote about Camp Cool, but a little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. |
 September 27, 2003Choo choo chaboogie. Tennesseeans get another dose of fresh in the Chattanooga Free Press. Mister Samuel Mortimer wrote an excellent article on vintage fashion, despite efforts by his evil step-editor to sabotage his efforts. She even went as far as to add her name to the end of the story. The nerve! |
 September 23, 2003Everybody knows that Washington is home to more hipsters-per-capita than any other state in the union. Now all the fresh junkies at Whitworth College and the greater Spokane metropolitan area know the skinny on Vintage Vantage, thanks to an elegantly crafted article (search for "vintage vantage" to view the article) by my girl Em. Thanks chica. |
 September 19, 2003The stars at night, are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap)... them Texan sunsets aren't so bad either. All the crazy college kids in the live music capital of the world are up to date with Camp Cool affairs, thanks to my boy Tizzod at the UT-Austin Daily Texan. Click here to read the investigative report. Long horns are the coolest. |
 September 17, 2003SDSU may or may not stand for "Still Drunk, Still Undeclared." That doesn't change the fact that the students attending that colegio now know a thing or two about Camp Cool operations. Gotta give it up to Steff for pulling some strings and hooking up the front-page article, thanks girl. Click here to get to the Daily Aztec site, but you gots to type "vintage vantage" into the search field to get to the article, something about frames or some such. Oh, and if you were wondering, that's San Diego mayor Dick Murphy cuddling a kitten. |
 September 12, 2003Susquehanna is more than just a fun word to say five times fast - it's also a distinguished institution of higher learning planted right in the heart of central Pennsylvania. Their student newspaper, The Crusader, employs many an accomplished young journalist. Ally B and K-Farb are two of the more promising ink-slingers coming out of that newshound camp, and the recently collaborated to compose a heart-wrenching tale of smelly clothes and the undying quest for fresh. Read all about it. |
 September 11, 2003Tallahassee knows the deal. Florida State is best known for gridiron heroics and a spirited nightlife, but vintage freshness may soon be putting the Seminoles on the map once more. My homey Greg profiled VV for the FSView, click here (enter "vintage vantage" into the search field) to get your booze on. I mean get your read on. |
 September 10, 2003Have you had too many years of cramped up city life, trapped like a duck in a pen? Tennessee is home to Rocky Top, Jack Daniels, and just recently, vintage freshness. Them good ol boys and girls down at UTK learned all about the world of Vintage Vantage in this here article. Much love to my girl Laura for volunteering to write the story. Wow, that was bad. Sorry. |
 September 10, 2003There's no place like home. There's also no place like the Daily Kansan to get the latest Jayhawk-related news. All those crazy kids in Lawrence learned a thing or two about vintage freshness, click here to read all about it. Or monkeys might fly out of my butt? |
 September 9, 2003Back to school bonanza. Camp Cool gets some puppy love from the Retriever Weekly at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. My girl Resh is too fresh, muchas gracias chicalita. Click here to learn what Nacho already knows about vintage comfort. |
 September 9, 2003Ooh, that's the Mississippi, the Mighty Mississip, the Ole Miss, the Old Man...Deeeeep River, my home is ooover Jordannnnah! Vintage Vantage appeared con queso in the Mississippi State Reflector, check it. Josh Foreman's article was so good, the folks over at the SUNY-Binghamton Pipe Dream had to give it some love. |
 July 20, 2003Holy testicle Tuesday. Vintage Vantage goes local - check the write-up in the business section of the Sunday Ventura County Star. The "trade show" in question was a Widespread Panic/Ben Harper show at Fiddler's Green in Denver. |
 June 25, 2003LL Cool J can't live without his radio... interview with Vintage Vantage. VV makes an appearance on the Murphy & Stoney Show on 106.5 The Zone servicing northwest Ohio and holy Toledo. Click here to listen to the very first little snippet of the interview, and find out where to get all those goofball shirts that everyone's talking about. |
 June 10, 2003The internet sucks. Wait, no it doesn't. Full Tank Magazine has a slightly off-kilter but always intriguing take on just about everything. Click here to read an interview with Vintage Vantage and learn more than you ever wanted to know about the goings-on here at Camp Cool. Hey Mikey, good lookin out. |
 May 2, 2003, but really sometime in September '02Nate had a van. He still has a website called Nate's Van, but it's a bit of a misnomer because he doesn't have a van anymore. He interviewed the goofy bastard in charge of Vintage Vantage last September - click here to take a ride. |
 April 24, 2003Vintage Vantage gets some cornhuskin love in the Daily Nebraskan.? It's enough to make a feller cake earth on his face and wear a silly little hat made of corn.? Thanks Andrea. |
 April 18, 2003Everybody at Bowling Green knows that children with mullets should always be supervised at the bowling alley to avoid potential accidents. They also now know about Vintage Vantage - my girl Betsy profiled Vintage Vantage in the latest edition of Pulse - feel it. |
 April 21, 2003Pahk your cah, dood. Read the vintage vantage ahhticle, dood. It's in the Northeastin papah, dood. Click heah, dood. |
 April 18, 2003Leave it to the beavers to write a little sumpin sumpin about VV. Click here to read the article in the Oregon State Daily Barometer. Much love to my girl SC. |
 April 16, 2003Louie, louie, ohh woah I don't know the words to that song. In unrelated news, check out some more vintage vantage press, this time in the University of Louisville student newspaper. Word em up. Thanks B. |
 April 14, 2003VV gets some bearcat love in the University of Cincinatti's News Record. Bearcat love can be really good, you just have to mind the claws. Click here to read the article (thanks Amanda!) or click here to read what John has to say about thrift shoppin. |
 April 9, 2003Vintage Vantage gets some more press, this time in the Butler University student paper... Click here to read the article... thanks Sara. |
 January 14, 2003Vintage Vantage goes metal! Check out the latest issue of Revolver music magazine (the one with Jenna Jameson on the cover) and read about your favorite vintage t-shirt slanger in the front section. Click here to see the article. Rock on. |
 October 4, 2002Vintage Vantage in the news. John gets some love from the Yale Herald... thanks Alexis. Click here to read the article. |
