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Band T-shirts are sometimes
or even often
the highest quality T-shirts available. Many bands bother to make sure that the stuff they sell is 100% cotton, fair trade, etc. I think I even have some that were made by union labor.
Small local bands tend to source from local manufacturers and distributors. And as they consider their merch a form of advertising, it pays to invest in material that lasts.
But the bigger and more volume-based franchises tend to get their clothes from the same global production and distribution chains as every other Fast Fashion brand. Taylor Swift isn't contracting with a dozen different local print shops per venue to fill an order big enough to saturate a stadium. She's going to the same folks that sell to H&M and Zara.
Yeah I've never cared enough to check and don't own any of her merch but you're probably right in this specific case.