Every other piece is judged against the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt

Buyers who ask where to start with That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup end up pointed toward the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt. The body on this one is 6.5 oz 100% organic cotton, which is a clear step up from the thin jersey most graphic tees are printed on, and the weight registers the second you lift one. Cut relaxed rather than slim, it drapes off the shoulder instead of gripping the chest. Signature jumbo screen prints land front and back, which means the shirt reads from both directions as you go by. At the hem statement shorts you get a yellow woven label, and that strip of yellow is the first thing long-time buyers of alocs clothing go to on any piece. The label’s own copy says this style fits true to size, which matters more than it sounds, because not every tee here is cut the same way. About $150 is what it runs at the brand’s own store as of September 2026, and streetwear prices move constantly, so treat that figure as a snapshot.

The graphic tees, going by their actual names

Most of the cough syrup shirts on the rail are graphic tees at that same core price, and the names are half the reason people collect them. The catalogue runs through the A.L.O.C.S. T-Shirt, the Warning T-Shirt, King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters, plus Big Pharma, Cough Syrup Scream, Paralysis, Rib Cage, ALOCS Smoke and the Cough Syrup Scary Movie T-Shirt. Then there are Po Up, Rosary, Man Down, Death Row, Land Of the Sippers, The Last Pint, Love At First Sip, the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt, the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt and the Dodger T-shirt. 100% cotton, jumbo screenprint hits front and back, the yellow woven label, and a fit the brand calls true to size: that is the one spec sheet behind King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters. Also true to size is the Warning T-Shirt, a 100% organic cotton short sleeve, though the brand adds that you should consider sizing up for an oversized look. The Paralysis T-Shirt is described as handmade in Los Angeles, with a stencil-style treatment and a rough print on a relaxed body. Names like Promethazine Tour and The Last Pint play on the phrase the brand is built from, which refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean; the brand posts its own banner reading “! PLEASE DO NOT SIP DRANK AND SHOOT FIREARMS !” and then returns to selling clothes.

A lane of their own for the lightweight, cropped cuts

A paragraph of their own goes to two tees that behave differently enough to warrant it, the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt. Both are listed as a wide-fit, cropped tee in lightweight cotton jersey, the opposite of the heavy classic body in almost every respect. They are rinsed for a comfortable vintage feel, and the artwork is a water based screen print front and back rather than a thick plastic-feeling hit. These are also the two styles that publish flat measurements, which is rare enough here to be worth using: small is 20 inches by 17.5 inches, medium 21.5 by 19, large 23 by 20.5, taken as width by length. Put those numbers against a tee you already own, since 20 inches wide by 17.5 long is short by ordinary standards. Plainly, the brand states that this style runs small and asks you to order one to two sizes bigger than your regular size for a relaxed fit. Price-wise nothing changes, about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

Women’s cuts and the less heavyweight end of the rail

Resale chatter is where a lot of people know the brand from, so it surprises them that not everything with the logo on it costs what the flagship tee costs. On the women’s side the lighter pieces run roughly $48 to $100 and they cover crop tops, tank tops and bodysuits rather than the full heavyweight body. The stated spec on tanks and crop tops is 100% combed cotton, a genuinely different fabric from the 6.5 oz organic cotton on the classic. A handful of tanks are printed with the Cough Syrup measuring line side print, a nod to a dosage line and one of the quieter graphics in the lineup. There is also a Kids Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt at about $60, the cheapest route into the classic artwork. Open this part of the catalogue first if you have been searching an awful lot of cough syrup shirt and bouncing off the $150 figure, and expect these prices to shift with drops and sales.

The tee range, at a glance

What the brand actually publishes for each tee is gathered in the table below, rather than what forums assume. Prices are what the brand’s own store showed as of September 2026, and they change with each drop. The material column holds only what the brand states itself, and that is why some rows are thinner. Because no single global rule exists here, the fit notes are per-product guidance rather than one blanket rule. Rather than filling the gap with a guess, I have said so where the brand publishes nothing about the fabric. Use it as a shortlist and then go to the product page, since the one useful fit sentence lives there.

How these tees actually fit on a body

No one rule holds here, and pretending otherwise is how people end up reselling a tee they wore once. True to size is what gets published for most of the range, including the classic, the Warning tee and the King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters group. Relaxed is how the classic body is described, so true to size already means room through the chest and a print that sits flat rather than stretched. If you want a lower hem and a wider sleeve, which is the look most people are after, the Warning tee adds the option of going up one. The two lightweight cropped styles come next, and they run small and ask for one to two sizes up, so a medium in the classic might be a large or extra large in Wok Is Dead. Extra small up to 3XL is the published span across the apparel range depending on style, and the deeper sizes are not on every product. The brand publishes no global size chart and no washing instructions, which is worth saying plainly, so per-product notes and those flat measurements are all you get.

Choosing the one that will actually get worn

Learn how the 6.5 oz body wears first: buy the classic in your normal size for a first piece, before spending on anything cut unusually. If you own one already and want something different rather than something similar, the cropped lightweight tees give you another silhouette for the same money, provided you respect the sizing note. Shopping by name works if you care about graphics more than cut, since Drankenstein, Rib Cage and Cough Syrup Scary Movie pull from the horror side while Big Pharma and Promethazine Tour lean on medical wordplay. Three checks work whatever you pick: the yellow woven label, the product name against the brand’s own catalogue, and the price against real levels, because a $45 tee carrying this artwork is not coming from the label. Plenty of searches land on stores with no connection to the brand, and Thats awful lot of cough syrup is one of a dozen ways people type the name into a search bar. Its own online store and its Los Angeles locations at 7669 Melrose Ave and 312 W 5th St, plus 5410 Almeda Rd in Houston, are where the brand sells, and roughly two in five size variants sit sold out at any moment. Prices, colorways and availability shift drop by drop, so check the live listing on the day you buy rather than trusting any guide, including this one.