raverr
The rave gift that gets worn is the one that fits a real night, not a costume party. I have been handing people shirts at shows since the '90s, and the ones that survive are easy to read, easy to size, and honest about the person. A tee they can sweat in. A hoodie they can put on in a cold parking lot. Not a prop they have to explain, and not something fragile they will be angry they brought to a rail.
Raverr is a small print-on-demand shop. Hoodies are $64, and $68 from 2XL up. Tees are $32 for the lightweight and $40 for the heavyweight, a few dollars more from 2XL up. US shipping is $4.95 on tees and $6.95 on hoodies, and free at $75 and up. A hoodie and a tee together clear $75, so that pair ships free. I am telling you the numbers because a gift with a surprise shipping charge is a worse gift. We are independent. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any artist, label, or event. Do not buy someone a shirt that implies they have a backstage relationship they do not have. Buy them a sentence they would actually say.
Start with the person, not the drop
Think about how they stand at a show. The friend who holds the spot while everyone else vanishes needs a different back from the friend who came to headbang, who needs a different back from the friend who only lights up when the set gets weird. If you do not know, ask a rude, useful question: do you run hot, do you lose people, do you want black or a color we can see you in. Two texts will beat a guess.
Tees are the easier yes. They start at $32, they come in more casual colors, and a missed size is less of a coat problem. Ours come two ways, the lightweight Bella+Canvas 3001 and the heavyweight Comfort Colors 1717, both unisex, with a small print on the chest and the big one on the back. Hoodies are the gift when the person is always cold on the walk back, or when you are buying the layer they will live in between sets. The blank is a Cotton Heritage M2580, 8.5 oz cotton-faced fleece. It runs small. Size up. Every hoodie has the back print plus a small sloth on the chest.
If you are unsure between the two, buy the tee and include the size guide so they can tell you the hoodie size later. A wrong fleece is a project. A right tee gets worn on Saturday.
Gifts for a crew that cannot agree
Group chats stall. Someone wants a skeleton, someone wants a sentence, someone wants "nothing embarrassing." The design I kept for that stall is Peace, Love and Wubs. Three words, a peace sign, a heart, and a sloth the size of a bottle cap. One color of ink. It is the quiet one, which is why it works when four people have to match and nobody wants to lose the argument. There is a tee with the same idea if the budget is the tee budget.
Matching does not have to mean identical. Two tees and one hoodie in the same sentence still look like a crew when you are trying to find each other after the drop. If you are buying a hoodie and a tee, or two hoodies, you are over $75 and the shipping on our side is free. Check the cart before you promise someone a delivery date. These are made to order and printed in the US. They do not spawn in a warehouse because a birthday is tomorrow. Order with time to spare, and read the current timing on the product page instead of trusting my memory of a printer's week.
Gifts for the weird set, the long set, and the lost set
For the friend who stays when the room gets strange, I like Give Me Weird Music. A ghost in headphones, sticker-simple, built to read on black and every other dark tee we carry. The tee also comes in pepper and hemp, if black feels too stark. It is for someone who means the weird music, not someone you are teasing. I would rather the shirt be true than clever at their expense.
The purple cat, spiral eyes, dripping letters that read I Like The Weird Shit, is the louder cousin. Same affection for the weird room, less quiet about it. Words are printed whole. On the hoodie's light colors (bone, oatmeal heather, light pink, carbon grey) the letters go dark so the sentence still shows. If your friend would say that out loud, the shirt is just agreement. If they would not, pick the ghost.
For the friend who is always the meeting point, Hold My Totem, I Gotta Wub One Out is a sloth in headphones parked on a speaker. For the friend you lose the second the lights drop, Lost My Friends, Found The Drop is the one to buy in a light color, on purpose, so you can spot them. For the friend whose whole night is a nod, I Don't Dance, I Headbang is one sentence and a red brush stroke, which turns hot pink on maroon, wine and team purple. For the friend who stays when their body wants to go home, Organs Optional is a ribcage and a lime heart. I am not going to link every one of them here and turn a gift guide into a catalog. The rave shirts wall is the tee version of that tour. Walk it with the person in mind.
Fit is the gift
A design they love in a size they hate will live in a drawer. Our hoodies run small. If they like a close fit, you might still size up once. If they want to layer a long sleeve under it for winter shows, size up for sure. Tees come two ways: the lightweight Bella+Canvas 3001 is a slimmer retail fit, and the heavyweight Comfort Colors 1717 is boxy and roomy. When someone says they wear a medium in everything, ask what "everything" is. A medium in a thin fashion tee and a medium in a garment-dyed heavyweight are not always the same medium.
If you cannot ask, buy the tee, not the hoodie, and aim for the size they already wear in a similar heavyweight. Fit questions belong on the size guide. Do not guess 2XL pricing either: from 2XL up, the hoodie is $68, not $64. Tees go up a few dollars from 2XL too: $36 on the lightweight, $44 on the heavyweight.
Colors matter for finding people and for the print. The Lost My Friends hoodie stays readable in light pink, bone, and oatmeal. Black is how a lot of the other hoodies disappear into a dark room, which some people want. On bone and other light grounds, several designs switch to dark ink so the words still show. The wording does not change. If you are buying bone because it looks soft in a photo, know that you are also buying a shirt people can read under bad lights. That is a feature.
What I would not give
I would not give brand-new shoes. Blisters are a hostile gift. I would not give earplugs that need a custom fit I cannot know, though a simple spare pair of foam plugs tucked into a card is a kinder add-on than another koozie. I would not give anything with a hard edge, a tall totem they did not ask for, or a prop that a venue might take at the door. I do not know their venue's rules. You might not either. A shirt clears more doors than a gadget.
I would not give camp hardware and call it a rave gift unless they actually camp. If they do, the camp side is a different shop. Tents, shade, and the kit for sleeping out live at our sister shop Burner Supply. I have been that camper since the '90s. The thing they wear to the set is the part I can speak to here. A dusty gift of gaiters is not a hoodie. Do not mix the piles and hope.
There is a shorter list on the site if you already know the size and you just want options in one place: rave gifts. This page is the thinking I do first. The page is the browsing.
A simple way to decide tonight
- If they are always cold on the way out, buy the hoodie and size up.
- If you are guessing, buy the heavyweight tee, a fit they already understand.
- If the group chat is stuck, Peace, Love and Wubs is the quiet match.
- If they stay for the weird set, Give Me Weird Music tells the truth without a speech.
- If they get lost, pick a light color. If they want to vanish, pick black.
- Order before the show, not the night before, and check current print timing.
Write a note in your voice. "This is the one that looked like you" beats a paragraph about bass music. They already like the music. The gift is just the back of it, in a size that lets them lift their arms when the drop finally does what it came to do.
Here for the fun side? See Happy Raver: aliens, sloths and wubs.
Shop the gear from this guide: rave hoodies for cold nights and the walk home, and rave shirts for the floor.
FAQ
What is a good rave gift for someone who goes to bass shows?
A heavyweight tee or a fleece hoodie they will actually wear to the rail, in a size you checked. Tees start at $32. Hoodies are $64, and $68 from 2XL up. Pick the design the way they already talk, not the loudest picture in the shop.
How do I buy a hoodie that fits?
Our hoodies run small, so size up, especially if they will layer under it. Use the size guide instead of a flat photo. If you cannot ask, a tee in the heavyweight size they already wear is the safer gift.
What if I need the gift by this weekend?
These are made to order and printed in the US. Do not assume a next-day miracle. Check the current timing on the product page before you promise a date, and order with room to spare.
What is a good matching gift for a group?
Peace, Love and Wubs is the quiet design I use when a group chat cannot agree. A tee starts at $32 if you need to keep the stack reasonable. A hoodie and a tee, or two hoodies, clear $75, which is where our shipping becomes free.
Can I give this to someone who camps?
Yes, if what they need is a shirt. Camp gear is a different pile. Our sister shop Burner Supply is where I send the tent-and-shade questions. The wearable gift stays here, and it should still follow the festival's own rules about what they can bring in.