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Boston / Since 1998

MADE FOR
THE KIDS WHO
KNOW EVERY
WORD.

The store

MERCH THAT SOUNDS
LIKE BOSTON.

American Nightmare songs are short, loud and over fast, and the people who love them know every word anyway. This store is for them, and for anyone who just found Background Music and can't stop playing it.

Every design here starts with something from the American Nightmare world: a song title like The Ice Age Is Coming or Please Die!, the Background Music album, the varsity logo or a Boston seal. We print each piece when you order it, on tees, long sleeves, crewnecks and hoodies, with kids' and youth sizes too.

American Nightmare sitting in a row against a chain-link fence, all in leather jackets
1998Formed in Boston
3Studio albums
2001First album
2011Back together
01

Printed to order

Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your piece is printed when you order it, just for you.

02

Every design has a story

Each print comes from a song, a record or the band's city, and the product page tells you which one.

03

Sizes for the whole crew

Unisex cuts for adults, plus kids' and youth sizes, all with the same designs.

04

Made to be worn

In the pit, on the train, at school. Merch is better worn out than kept in a drawer.

ONE CITY. ONE NIGHTMARE.

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