Any chance you could start listening to hip-hop music? Quite a few of those t-shirts are, like, 3XL or something.

Dude, you're skinnier than me, and XL always fits for me. Try one from somewhere that'll let you do a return if it's not comfortable on you.

I've passed up many a cool rock shirt because my belly exceeds the apparent width of the average music fan. Especially when I was seeing lots of British Bands in the early 90's - those bands loved small shirts.

Yeah, it's a UK vs. US thing I think - whenever I buy shirts for bands in the UK, the body is always 2 inches too short, even if it fits around my trunk. If it's long-sleeved, the arms are similarly mis-proportioned.

My roommate has the opposite problem. He's pretty slim, and whenever he goes to concerts they only have L or XL shirts for sale.

muddgirl, funny you say that- I have a wax trax shirt I LOVE because it's about two inches shorter than a normal t, so I don't feel like I'm wearing a nightgown when I have it on.

I prefer my t-shirts cut by Omar the Tentmaker. I just figured that any band whose lyrics are uh, explicitly Tolkienesque (ok, ok, Tad Williams-esque) would have a market in the, uh, shall we say, pear-shaped polyhedral-dice-friendly contingent.

Also: Blind Guardian is the most stupidly fun band I've discovered in the past 90 days, and my enthusiasm will fade as I discover the next shiny thing.

Also also: The Dirty Projectors is not the next shiny thing.

Also also also: If a singular proper noun is expressed as a plural form, is the verb singular or plural?

Also also also also: I just heard the Blind Guardian cover of Surfin' USA. IT ROCKS.