I'm sure this is a common complaint, so I'll summarize: the quality of the shirts printed by Threadless is inversely proportional to it's popularity. That is, the more creative/abstract/"artsy" designs fall by the wayside of designs with more mainstream appeal.*

In any event, I think the printing of these "under-scored and over-looked" designs may be the best thing Threadless has done since the revival of some of their retired shirts. I know this is Threadless's way of saying something along the lines of, "Hey guys, we know you guys didn't seem to like these very much the first time around, but we're rather fond of them and have decided to give them a shot anyway," but in my mind the message is more in the tune of, "Hey guys, you dick-wads don't know shit about shit and wouldn't know a good t-shirt design if it bit you in your miserable asses, so today we're taking things out of your hands and printing what should be printed. Deal." Maybe I'm just a mean-spirited person.

But once again, I'm mega-stoked. I want every single one of these shirts. I'm one of those people that just pick up 3 or 4 shirts every time a sale rolls around (I'm assuming I'm not alone in this), but I may have to dip into my STP reservoir and nab a couple of these before they're gone.

Also, in regards to the 5 dollar shirts, a couple of them are ones that were high on my want list for the last sale but were passed up for others. Lucky coincidence, eh?

* I guess whether a shirt "sucks" or "rules" is pretty subjective, but I'd like to think of Threadless as a source of highly creative designs and artwork rather than a stock bin of shirts comparable to common Target fodder.