ALICE IN CHAINS vintage dirt backprint Band T-shirt

Sun-bleached grunge in shirt form.

The Dirt era served raw and cracked wide open. Muted sand tee, haunting album cover art front and center, framed in tribal chaos. It looks like it was pulled from a box in your older cousin’s attic, and that’s a compliment.

Perfect for:
• Mid-afternoon breakdowns
• Missing Layne like he was your roommate
• Telling Gen Z grunge never died

Details:
• Officially licensed
• 100% cotton, as soft and broken-in as your coping mechanisms
• Looks better with age, like trauma

Care Instructions:
Cold wash. Let dry next to your favorite ashtray.

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Dirt is the second studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains, released on September 29, 1992, by Columbia Records. It was the band's last album recorded with all four original members, as bassist Mike Starr was fired in January 1993 during the tour to support the album.^[11] The majority of the songs were written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell, but for the first time, vocalist Layne Staley wrote two songs by himself ("Hate to Feel" and "Angry Chair"), both also featuring Staley on guitar. The track "Iron Gland" features Tom Araya from Slayer on vocals. The album's lyrics explore depression, pain, anger, anti-social behavior, relationships, drug addiction (primarily heroin), war, death, and other emotionally charged topics.

Dirt received critical acclaim and charted in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In the US, it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned five singles: "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Hole", all with accompanying music videos. Dirt was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. It is certified 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making it Alice in Chains' most commercially successful album.

Dirt is often considered a landmark album of the grunge era and been included in numerous best album lists. According to a writer of Pitchfork, the album made Alice in Chains "one of the most famous bands in the world". In 2022, the album returned to the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart at number 9 following the release of its 30th anniversary reissue.