Behind the release routine at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup

Batch releases, rather than seasonal ranges, describe how merchandise lands here. At a week-or-two clip new releases go live on the brand’s own online store, then sell through its shops in Los Angeles and Houston. That store’s feed, read on 29 September 2026, shows publication dates that cluster hard: twelve products on 24 July 2026, eleven on 12 September, ten on 25 September. Outside coverage of the label reports long lines at the Melrose Avenue store and limited-edition drops. No drop calendar gets posted anywhere. Stock clears fast: 619 of 1,443 size variants were sold out that day, close to 43 percent.

Only one mechanic that’s a lot of cough syrup stands permanently, 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 shift constantly. A sold-out size may never return, since no restock policy is published. Listings for alocs clothing and cough syrup clothing often promise restocks; the brand has promised nothing of the kind.

Working through the documented collaboration record

In date order, what follows is every collaboration and activation the research documents, and nothing is added from resale chatter. Every entry states where it came from: 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. Some entries are thin here and are left thin. None is invented here where a piece list or a price was never published. 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.

8 April 2023: the pop-up staged 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 pop-up was staged at the Cookies store at 8360 Melrose Avenue. An outside publication covered it at the time, which puts it in the confirmed column. Note it as a dated event, not a catalogue entry. No piece list and no prices appear in that coverage.

28 April 2023: BlueBucksClan, and That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary

A capsule with the Los Angeles duo BlueBucksClan came three weeks later. It carried the title That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary and went out on 28 April 2023 at the 7669 Melrose Avenue flagship. Honoring the late Drakeo The Ruler sits at the front of every account of the drop. It is one of the few releases documented by an outside publication at the time. The sourcing covers the event and the intent, not the fabric. Anyone building a catalogue of thats a awful lot of cough syrup collaborations should date this one and stop.

11 March 2024: the 310babii collaboration

On 11 March 2024 the brand announced a collaboration with 310babii on its own blog. The only source is that post, which leaves the date solid and the substance thin. Reading the blog against the store feed does not settle which products belonged to it. The piece count, the colorways and the prices are fixed by nothing. It opens a March 2024 stretch that was busy even by this label’s standards, four activations in nineteen days. A name and a date are the honest entry.

14 to 17 March 2024: Rolling Loud California

The biggest activation on the record is Rolling Loud California, staged from 14 to 17 March 2024 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. A carnival was built on site, arcade games and a swing ride included, and two onsite stores ran across the four days. That is the whole sourced description, from the brand’s own release. Neither an attendance figure nor a product list is documented. A footprint of that size is not a capsule; product was sold, but the thing was staged as an attraction. It also hands over a rare fixed date range for temporary retail under the awful lot of cough syrup banner.

19 March 2024: the Got Sole pop-up

What survives is a recap on the brand’s own blog, the label’s account of its own booth. Two days after the festival closed, the brand appeared at Got Sole in Los Angeles on 19 March 2024. The entry yields a date, plus the fact that the brand works conventions. Got Sole is a sneaker and streetwear convention, so this is trade-show retail, not a partnership. A collaborative product exclusive to that weekend is documented nowhere. Inflating it further would be fabrication.

29 March 2024: the Dodger Collection

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. March closed with the Dodger Collection, published on the brand’s blog on 29 March 2024. It is also the only documented headwear inside a named collection, which matters practically. Since the store’s hat collection returns no products as of September 2026, no cap from it can be bought new. Whether any license sat behind the name is not established by the post. Date it to March 2024 and then describe the contents the way the brand did.

April 2024: Trapstar, the London label

Evidence from a partner outweighs a reseller’s caption and removes the question of who authorized what. Trapstar holds the strongest evidence here, because 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. Resale platforms hold secondhand records, so that figure is reported rather than confirmed. Of every entry here, this is the one to lean on hardest.

1 August 2025: 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. Inside the store’s own collaborations collection they are the only product. Most of its collaborations never get a permanent catalogue home, so tracing them means reading dated posts. Outside the store listing, no launch coverage was found. The entry is a product record with a publication date, not an announced event.

24 July 2026: the Stinc Team capsule

The most recent documented collaboration is Stinc Team, published to the store on 24 July 2026. It runs to an ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon tee and shorts, plus a wider Awful Lot Of Stincs capsule. No press release accompanied it in the material reviewed. Shorts in it sat at about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. The date comes from the store feed, so it marks when product went live. It is confirmed as product, a narrower claim than confirmed as a campaign.

What is confirmed, what is claimed and what merely circulates

Everything above stands on a dated source; three further items do not. The first is a capsule the store published on 12 September 2026 under the ALOCS x YSL name, a bandana at about $30 up to a hoodie at about $200. Real products, sold by the brand, but 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. Independent confirmation is missing for both, so calling either a licensed collaboration would be a guess dressed as a fact. Music artists are also named in that press release as past merch collaborators, which is the brand’s undated claim about itself. The table keeps the two columns apart on purpose.