Yeah the designer knew that, but used that name because of the ring it has to it.
It's in some blog about it somewhere!

Hey, aren't you in the crew?

Uh, it is my crew.

Cool, my girlfriend Linds is in the crew, and I think I should be as well. You know, the Crewsaddillas were my idea...

Cool, my girlfriend Linds is in the crew, and I think I should be as well. You know, the Crewsaddillas were my idea...

Well, we're the goodboyzstaytrue. And it was all my idea. We have tees and everything, in all sorts of colors, and everything. Soon to be hoodies!

You can join if you want. We're growing at an exponential rate!

I said 'and everything' twice in one sentence.

I think practically you are correct, this small excerpt would be A minor, but either your solfege syllables or your note names were wrong - the printed notes are G and E, corresponding to Sol and Mi in solfege. I don't even see any B's (Si's) in there at all. So from a theoretical point of view, this could actually be in D minor, with a cadence tonicizing the dominant (A) of D, with a secondary dominant (the G's and E's) preceding the resolution to A. Of course that would require the G's to be raised, and if you squint you could actually make a case for the splotch preceding the G's to be a # symbol.

Basically, it's a cool shirt.

but you can't see the key signature!

this is true, but we're assuming function as implied by the given pitch material.

a key signature doesnt make something in a certain key.. a key signature just 'reports' it..

I am so glad there is a thread about this...and for once I was not the argumentative geek to start it. :) I think Gordon's right...the excerpt could technically be modulating out of D minor, or even a half cadence in the key of D minor (except, as mentioned, for the lack of G#). I agree, it's a cool shirt regardless.

And now I feel like I should go do something productive.

this would make a VII which isn't possible, so it's most likely, in the key of dm, have a secondary dominant function V/iii and then would resolve to a iii to mimic the sound of V to i all within the key. but gordon, raising the 5th (g) would make the chord augmented, right?