Old t-shirt sells for $10,000. Makes rock history.

See this t-shirt? It's putting someone's kid through college. In 1979, the Led Zeppelinconcerttee granted you a backstage pass to party with the band. Today it could pay for Robert Plant to sing at your Bat Mitzvah.

An anonymous eBay bidder just laid down $10,000 for the vintage concert top, according to Stereogum, making it the auction site's priciest rock shirt ever sold.

It was first acquired by eBay seller, Stormcrow Vintage, for $123 from the print shop that created the shirt for the band's Knebworth shows. Because the shirts were intended as backstage passes and not just souvenirs, only a small amount were produced.

"At the time, I thought I may have overpaid, until I got back home, looked it up online and noticed it was ranked #1 as the rarest Zeppelin t-shirt," the seller told the website Brave Words. Then he got the $10k bid. "When I got the sale notification, my jaw hit the floor."

The shirt's new owner is an anonymous Australian collector. He joins the ranks of a rare breed of rock-a-holics who've spent five figures on rock shirts. A few years back a shirt owned by John Lennon sold for $16,400 in auction. In 2007, a concert shirt worn by U2's the Edge sold for $9,600. According to vintage veterans who earn their living off of rock history, the fewer the shirts produced the higher the price. If an item comes off a musician's back, it's gold.

But let's be clear about this Zeppelin shirt: nobody's ever worn it. And with a $10,000 price-tag, it's unlikely anyone ever will. That's the kind of shirt that belongs on a wall, behind a glass case, guarded by a bulldog with a Sloman's shield sticker on it's nose.

It does make you wonder just how much other vintage concert shirts could be worth these days. I don't know about you but I've got a sweet XXL Billy Joel Storm Front Tour shirt in my childhood closet-also never worn.


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