Behind the release rhythm at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup
Here merchandise ships in batches instead of seasons. Every week or two fresh lines land on the brand’s own online store, and then move through its stores in Los Angeles and Houston. Read on 29 September 2026, the publication dates in that store’s feed cluster hard: twelve products on 24 July 2026, eleven on 12 September, ten on 25 September. Stock clears fast: 619 of 1,443 size variants were sold out that day, close to 43 percent. Long lines at the shop alocs shorts Melrose Avenue store and limited-edition drops show up in coverage of the label. Nowhere is a drop calendar published.
The one standing mechanic is the mystery item: a mystery tee at about $75, mystery shorts at about $50, at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. Treat those as a snapshot, since prices and stock move constantly. Listings for alocs clothing and cough syrup clothing routinely promise restocks, yet the brand has promised nothing of the kind. A sold-out size may never return, since no restock policy is published.
Reading the documented collaboration record
Every collaboration and activation the research documents follows, in date order, with nothing added from resale chatter. Each entry names its source: coverage published at the time, a partner’s own post, the brand’s blog, or a store feed date. A feed date logs the moment product went live, not the moment a deal was struck. Where a piece list or a price was never published, nothing is made up here. Promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean, is what the brand’s name refers to, and that explains the medical and horror imagery in these releases. Some entries are thin here and are left thin.
8 April 2023: the pop-up with Cookies
Titled That’s A Awful Lot Of Cookies, it launched on 8 April 2023. The earliest dated collaboration is with Cookies, the brand co-founded by Berner. The drop ran as a pop-up at the Cookies store at 8360 Melrose Avenue. Coverage from an outside publication at the time is what puts it in the confirmed column. Log it as a dated event, not a catalogue entry. There is no piece list and there are no prices in that coverage.
28 April 2023: That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary, with BlueBucksClan
Three weeks after that, a capsule with the Los Angeles duo BlueBucksClan followed. The release, titled That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary, came on 28 April 2023 at the 7669 Melrose Avenue flagship. The late Drakeo The Ruler was honored by the drop, and every account of it leads with that. The sourcing covers the event and the intent, not the fabric. Just a few releases were documented by an outside publication at the time, and this is one. Anyone cataloguing thats a awful lot of cough syrup collaborations should date this one and stop.
11 March 2024: the 310babii collaboration
With that post as the only source, the date is solid and the substance is thin. On 11 March 2024 the brand announced a collaboration with 310babii on its own blog. The piece count, the colorways and the prices are fixed by nothing. A March 2024 stretch opens here that was busy even by this label’s standards, four activations in nineteen days. Reading the blog against the store feed does not settle which products belonged to it. The honest entry comes down to a name and a date.
14 to 17 March 2024: Rolling Loud California
Rolling Loud California is the largest documented activation, staged from 14 to 17 March 2024 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. The brand built a carnival on site, with arcade games and a swing ride, and ran two onsite stores across the four days. That, from the brand’s own release, is the whole sourced description. No attendance figure or product list is documented. Something that size is not a capsule: it sold product, yet it was staged as an attraction. It also supplies a rare fixed date range for temporary retail under the awful lot of cough syrup banner.
19 March 2024: the Got Sole pop-up
The record is a recap on the brand’s own blog, the label’s account of its own booth. On 19 March 2024 the brand appeared at Got Sole in Los Angeles, two days after the festival closed. Got Sole runs as a sneaker and streetwear convention, which makes this trade-show retail, not a partnership. No documentation shows a collaborative product exclusive to that weekend. The entry delivers a date, plus the fact that the brand works conventions. To inflate it further would be fabrication.
29 March 2024: the drop of the Dodger Collection
On 29 March 2024 the brand’s blog published the Dodger Collection, closing the month. The post names a hoodie, a tee, a fitted cap and a dad hat, and kids tees, which is the clearest piece list in this record. It is also the only documented headwear inside a named collection, which matters practically. Nothing in the post establishes whether any license sat behind the name. As of September 2026 the store’s hat collection returns no products, so no cap from it can be bought new. Date it to March 2024 and then describe the contents the way the brand did.
April 2024: Trapstar out of London
A partner’s evidence outweighs a reseller’s caption and takes away the question of who authorized what. The strongest evidence here belongs to Trapstar: the London label published the collaboration from its own verified accounts in April 2024. Nothing documents an official piece list beyond the hoodie. A resale platform lists a Trapstar collaboration hoodie at about $150 retail under a spring 2025 season code. Because resale platforms hold secondhand records, that figure is reported rather than confirmed. This is the entry to lean on hardest of all of them.
1 August 2025: the Rhime shoes
As of September 2026 The Rhime Shoes sat at about $100, down from about $200, at the brand’s own store; prices change. Footwear entered the catalogue through Rhime USA, whose shoes were published to the store on 1 August 2025. Most of its collaborations never get a permanent catalogue home, so tracing them means reading dated posts. Nothing beyond the store listing turned up as launch coverage. They are the only product inside the store’s own collaborations collection. What the entry is: a product record with a publication date, not an announced event.
24 July 2026: the Stinc Team drop
It runs to an ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon tee and shorts, plus a wider Awful Lot Of Stincs capsule. The most recent documented collaboration is Stinc Team, published to the store on 24 July 2026. Because the date comes from the store feed, it marks when product went live. In the material reviewed, no press release accompanied it. Shorts from it were priced at about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. Confirmed as product is the claim here, and it is narrower than confirmed as a campaign.
What is confirmed, what is claimed, and what just circulates
A dated source carries everything above, and three further items lack one. The first of them is a capsule published by the store on 12 September 2026 under the ALOCS x YSL name, a bandana at about $30 up to a hoodie at about $200. The products are real and the brand sells them, yet nothing establishes who the other party is, so no partner is named here and the capsule stands as unconfirmed. The second of them is a Cartoon Network collaboration, appearing on resale listings and in a store collection name but with no announcement and no licensing confirmation. Third is an LRG collaboration at ComplexCon, named once in the brand’s own press release with no date attached. Both of those lack independent confirmation, and calling either a licensed collaboration would be a guess dressed as a fact. The two columns are kept apart in the table on purpose. Music artists are also named in that press release as past merch collaborators, which is the brand’s undated claim about itself.
| Release or collab | Date on record | What the thing was | How well confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookies pop-up | 8 April 2023 | Pop-up on Melrose Avenue | Coverage from outside |
| BlueBucksClan | 28 April 2023 | A capsule honoring Drakeo The Ruler | Coverage from outside |
| The 310babii collaboration | 11 March 2024 | Blog announcement by the brand | Brand-confirmed |
| The Rolling Loud California activation | 14 to 17 March 2024 | Carnival, two onsite stores, Inglewood | Brand’s own confirmation |
| Got Sole booth | 19 March 2024 | Convention appearance | Confirmed by the brand |
| The Dodger Collection | 29 March 2024 | A hoodie, a tee, hats, kids tees | Brand-confirmed |
| Trapstar | April 2024 | Published by Trapstar itself | Partner-confirmed |
| Rhime USA shoes | 1 August 2025 | Shoes, in the collabs collection | Product confirmed, nothing wider |
| Stinc Team | 24 July 2026 | A Dragon tee and shorts | Product confirmed, nothing wider |
| The unattributed ALOCS x YSL capsule | 12 September 2026 | Capsule of five pieces | Partner not confirmed |
| Cartoon Network items | No date found | Resale listings only | Unconfirmed |
| The LRG collaboration at ComplexCon | No date was found | A single press release mention | Not confirmed |