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Begin with the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt, the piece the rest of the rail answers to

Buyers who ask where to begin with That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup end up pointed toward the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt. 6.5 oz 100% organic cotton makes up the body, denser than the lightweight jersey most graphic tees get printed on, and you feel that the second you hold one. Front and back both carry the signature jumbo screen prints, so the shirt reads from both sides when you walk past somebody. The silhouette is alocs tees relaxed rather than slim, so it hangs off the shoulder instead of gripping the chest. At the hem sits a yellow woven label, and that strip of yellow is the first thing longtime buyers of alocs clothing go to on any piece. True to size is what the brand’s own product copy says about this style, which matters more than it sounds, since not every tee here is cut the same way. The brand’s own store shows about $150 as of September 2026, and since streetwear prices move constantly, treat that as a snapshot.

The graphic tees, under their actual names

The majority of the cough syrup shirts on offer sit at that same core price as graphic tees, and half the reason people collect them is the names. On the list you have 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. King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters run on one spec sheet: 100% cotton, jumbo screenprint hits front and back, the yellow woven label, and a fit the brand calls true to size. Also true to size is the Warning T-Shirt, a 100% organic cotton short sleeve, though the brand notes that you should consider sizing up for an oversized look. Listed as handmade in Los Angeles, the Paralysis T-Shirt carries a stencil-style treatment and a rough print on a relaxed body. The brand takes its name from a phrase that refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean, and names like Promethazine Tour and The Last Pint play on it; the brand runs its own banner reading “! PLEASE DO NOT SIP DRANK AND SHOOT FIREARMS !” and then gets back to selling clothes.

The lightweight, cropped cuts keep to their own lane

A paragraph of their own goes to two tees that behave differently enough to need it, the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt. A wide-fit, cropped tee in lightweight cotton jersey is how both are described, the opposite of the heavy classic body in almost every respect. They come rinsed for a comfortable vintage feel, and the artwork goes on as 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. Because 20 inches wide by 17.5 long is short by ordinary standards, measure those against a tee you already own. The brand states outright 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 they sit with everything else, about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

The lighter end of the rail, where the women’s cuts sit

Not every piece with the logo on it costs what the flagship tee costs, and that surprises people who know the brand only from resale chatter. The women’s side runs roughly $48 to $100 for the lighter pieces, covering crop tops, tank tops and bodysuits rather than the full heavyweight body. 100% combed cotton is what gets published for tanks and crop tops, a genuinely different fabric from the 6.5 oz organic cotton on the classic. A handful of tanks come with the Cough Syrup measuring line side print, a nod to a dosage line and one of the quieter graphics in the lineup. The Kids Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt sits at about $60, the cheapest route into the classic artwork. If you have been bouncing off the $150 figure while searching an awful lot of cough syrup shirt should open this part of the catalogue first, 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. The prices here are what the brand’s own store showed as of September 2026, and they change with each drop. Some rows are thinner because the material column lists only what the brand states itself. Because no single global rule exists here, the fit notes are per-product guidance rather than one blanket rule. Where the brand publishes nothing about the fabric, I have said so instead of filling the gap with a guess. Read it as a shortlist and then open the product page, because that is where the one useful fit sentence lives.

What these tees actually do on a body

Pretending there is a single rule here is how people end up reselling a tee they wore once, and no single rule exists. Most of the catalogue is published as true to size, including the classic, the Warning tee and the King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters group. Listed as relaxed, the classic body means true to size already leaves room through the chest and a print that sits flat rather than stretched. On top of that, the Warning tee adds the option of going up one if you want a lower hem and a wider sleeve, which is the look most people are after. Separate again are the two lightweight cropped styles, which run small and ask for one to two sizes up, meaning a medium in the classic might be a large or extra large in Wok Is Dead. Sizes across the apparel range go from extra small up to 3XL depending on style, though the deeper sizes are not on every product. To say it plainly, the brand publishes no global size chart and no washing instructions, so per-product notes and those flat measurements are all you get.

Choosing the one you will actually wear

For an opening purchase, buy the classic in your normal size and learn how the 6.5 oz body wears before spending on anything cut unusually. The cropped lightweight tees give you another silhouette for the same money if you own one already and want something different rather than something similar, provided you respect the sizing note. If graphics matter to you more than cut, shop by name, because Drankenstein, Rib Cage and Cough Syrup Scary Movie pull from the horror side while Big Pharma and Promethazine Tour lean on medical wordplay. Whatever you pick, check the yellow woven label, check the product name against the brand’s own catalogue, and check the price against real levels, because a $45 tee carrying this artwork is not coming from the label. One of a dozen ways people type the name into a search bar is Thats awful lot of cough syrup, and plenty of those searches land on stores with no connection to the brand. 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. Because prices, colorways and availability shift drop by drop, check the live listing on the day you buy rather than trusting any guide, including this one.