info: shirts from the u2.com site "relaunch" (2000/2001?)

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Please correct me if I am butchering history here, but, back in 2000/2001 (iirc), u2.com "relaunched" (or rebranded) during/ahead of the ATYCLB buildup. Even then, they sold variants/reissues of some of the old tour shirts. They weren't original tour "merch," though. I've seen a few of the shirts float around some of the used sites (I found one of the Achtung Baby shirts on Mercari; not posting the link, but it bears the baby, star, and trabant on one side, and "Achtung Baby" on the back, whereas the original tour shirts had the venues and dates on the back of the shirts), but one that I remained stumped on was an actual u2.com shirt. I can't have been the only one to have bought one of these. It's a black shirt that had a red and white ovular logo bearing u2.com in the center. The "dot" in the graphical styling of a hurricane icon (like this, I think, but not the same colors). I'll have to take a picture of if since I can't readily find an image on Google.

So, for now, I'm curious about what this shirt is and when it actually dated. Does anyone know what brands/labels the site was printing on during those years? Anyone remembering the site from back then? At some point, they may have moved to American Apparel (maybe during the HTDAAB era/Vertigo Tour), but I'm curious about identifying what I have and when I may have gotten these items.
 
I don't think I remember that one, but I did get my U2 Slane shirt from that relaunch maybe. It finally bit the dust this year after damn near 25 years of constant use. Just fell apart finally.


To counter that, my JT Tour t-shirt died like 6 months after purchasing in 2017. BOOOO.

I did do a Wayback machine search and it saw this winamp skin which seems to have the logo at the top.
 

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That's a great find, AY, thanks. Trying to scout the site via the Wayback machine, most of the searches from 2000-2002 errored out (I'm guessing because Flash Player has been discontinued/supported). I think I was able to get a sample of the "under construction" homepage taken at one point. What I do remember about the site at that time, when it was up and running, was that it had a flash animation introduction with the Quincey & Sonance remix of Beautiful Day.

Edited to add that I also have a Slane shirt (for the U2 Go Home website/member exclusive). Never wore it.
 
Man, I miss that time. So much good stuff. I have some Pop Lemons, Pop pins and the official Fly shades from U2.com back then (not that new garbage they are doing now).

Sorry I know I'm not actually helping to answer your question. Just stuck in a nostalgia loop!
 
No, it definitely helps, thank you! I also still have one of the lemons (never opened it), but I think I might have gotten that from eBay prior to the website relaunch. Those fly shades...I regretted not getting those when they had them...but they sold out relatively quickly, iirc!
 
Adding some context (as in, I went to storage and found the shirt), and based on the very fine text under the logo, it appears to have a 2000 copyright date. Based on the logo and some of that Wayback research, it appears it could originate back to that site's re/launch. The shirt label is Delta; 100% cotton (sized medium). Logo looks like this:

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