Cool Hunting

Like legendary tees emblazoned with "This is Not a Fugazi Shirt", merch says a lot about a band. The latest in a series of curated t-shirt collections produced by New York label United Bamboo puts musicians themselves to work designing their own graphics. The included groups represent some of the most innovative and hyped artists of late with a heavy dose from the New York scene, including Black Dice, Animal Collective (pictured above), and LCD Soundsystem. The results, printed on not-so-soft tees with plastic transfers, range from the psychedelic doodling of White Magic to a brash statement that LCD Soundsystem softens with an embroidered dove. See LCD's message to the world and more after the jump.