In the mid-1990’s, when I was a teenager not yet old enough to enter the head shop in the back of a long running hippie / bohemian store called Greeko’s, some of the rad things available for purchase to my teenage self in the all-ages area of the shop was a huge assortment of some of the funniest parody stickers, patches, and t-shirts I had ever seen before. Forget Wacky Packages; these were all weed and drug related and many times more creative, more clever, and better drawn than those. I was a fan as soon as I laid eyes on the art and humor for the first time and I’ve been collecting it ever since.
The counterculture streetwear brand that I am referring to is THC – also known as Totally Hip Clothing, The High Command, To Higher Consciousness, Trees Hills Clouds, Teaching History Class, Towards Harmonious Civilization, Too High Comix, and so on and so forth. In my opinion, THC was the best and most successful counterculture streetwear brand, with the best artist(s) producing the best parodies and characters. THC obviously inspired other brands like Skunk Wear, nc17, Chronic Fatigues, and a bunch of non-branded imitations since then – and has inspired CPX.ART too.
Besides having a reason to get all nostalgic about back-in-the-day (Ahmad), this post is really for me to show scans from my collection of THC stickers that I have collected over the years from several head shops and literally tracked down, purchased, or imported from different parts of the planet Earth. I have quite a few and the scanning for this post took up my free time for a few nights, but I think it’s worth it. I have not found a more comprehensive collection of scanned original prints in one place on the Internet before.
So here we are, at the point in the article where I shamelessly solicit pieces for my collection that I do not already have. If you have any unpeeled, original THC stickers with “thc.com” repeating watermark on the paper backing or legit pre-watermark (it’s easy to tell the difference from these and out-of-focus and oversized reprints from the past decade or so), patches, not-crazy-expensive NOS t-shirts in L or XL size, print advertising, or anything that you think I would be interested in from THC or related (Dementia, Wings of Light, or We the People) and that you do not see in the image sliders below, and that you would be willing to sell me, please direct message me on Twitter (@CPXART) and I’ll gladly pay a fair price.
THC.com is still active and I encourage you to visit the website and show your support for this classic counterculture company. You can even receive free stickers!
– CPX
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