The official tour shirt from VLTG's 2198 'Corroded Signal' run — a hundred and four shows across the Meridian corridor and three outer settlements. The shirt is a heavy 6.5oz cotton-analog in washed black, screen-printed with a fragmented transmission tower graphic on the front and a full tour date list on the back, several of which are crossed out with thick red ink (shows that were shut down by Vantablack security contractors or cancelled when venues were raided). The print has a deliberate degraded look — part of the aesthetic, part of the authenticity.

Two years on, the Corroded Signal tee has graduated from merchandise to artifact. VLTG's sound — a dense, confrontational mix of industrial percussion and melodic noise — soundtracked a lot of things that happened in 2198, some of them documented, some of them not. Wearing one says you were there, or you know someone who was, or you care enough about the era to have tracked one down. They show up at Shelf markets, Tier 2 secondhand stalls, and occasionally on Tier 3 bodies who paid considerably more than face value to acquire the credibility.