Napster White T-shirt

Eighty million users logged into Napster at its 2001 peak — the service Shawn Fanning had launched from his Northeastern University dorm room eighteen months earlier, scaled to a global audience fast enough that the Metallica, Dr. Dre, and RIAA lawsuits were already in motion by the time the user base crested. The entire company lifecycle (launch in June 1999, legal injunction in July 2001, shutdown that same month, bankruptcy, and brand resale to Roxio) ran across barely 36 months, making the active-era promotional-apparel category one of the most compressed internet-brand merchandise windows on the vintage market. This white cotton tee carries the iconic blue-and-green cat-with-headphones logo at the chest — designed by Shawn’s uncle John Fanning in 1999 — with the “napster” wordmark reproduced alongside the same logo at the upper yoke of the back panel in matching blue type.