Inside the drop routine at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup
Merchandise arrives here in batches instead of seasons. New lines land on the brand’s own online store at a week-or-two clip, and then sell through its stores in Los Angeles and Houston. Read on 29 that’s an awful lot of cough syrup 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. Long lines at the Melrose Avenue store and limited-edition drops turn up in coverage of the label. No drop calendar gets posted anywhere. Fast turnover is the rule: 619 of 1,443 size variants were sold out that day, close to 43 percent.
The one permanent 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. Read those as a snapshot only, since prices and stock move constantly. No restock policy is published, so a sold-out size may never return. Restocks are often promised in listings for alocs clothing and cough syrup clothing; the brand has promised nothing of the kind.
Reading the collaboration record
Set out here is every collaboration and activation the research documents, in date order, nothing added from resale chatter. The source is named in every entry: coverage published at the time, a partner’s own post, the brand’s blog, or a store feed date. A feed date records when product went live, not when a deal was struck. Several entries are thin and stay thin. Where a piece list or a price was never published, none is invented here. The brand’s name points to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean; that is why the medical and horror imagery appears in these releases.
8 April 2023: the pop-up staged with Cookies
The earliest collaboration carrying a date is the one with Cookies, the brand co-founded by Berner. The launch came on 8 April 2023 under the name That’s A Awful Lot Of Cookies. Cookies hosted the drop as a pop-up at its store at 8360 Melrose Avenue. Log it as a dated event, not a catalogue entry. Coverage from an outside publication at the time is what puts it in the confirmed column. That coverage comes with no piece list and no prices.
28 April 2023: BlueBucksClan, and That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary
It was titled That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary and released on 28 April 2023 at the 7669 Melrose Avenue flagship. The capsule with the Los Angeles duo BlueBucksClan arrived three weeks later. Honoring the late Drakeo The Ruler stands at the front of every account of the drop. It is one of the few releases documented by an outside publication at the time. Event and intent are covered by the sourcing; fabric is not. 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. A March 2024 stretch opens here that was busy even by this label’s standards, four activations in nineteen days. Even read against the store feed, the blog does not settle which products belonged to it. Nothing settles the piece count, the colorways or the prices. A name and a date make up 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. The brand built a carnival on site, with arcade games and a swing ride, and ran two onsite stores across the four days. The whole sourced description stops there, and it comes from the brand’s own release. A footprint of that size is not a capsule; product was sold, but the thing was staged as an attraction. A rare fixed date range for temporary retail under the awful lot of cough syrup banner also comes from it. No attendance figure and no product list survive in the documentation.
19 March 2024: the pop-up at Got Sole
What survives 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. The entry gives a date and the fact that the brand works conventions. Got Sole operates as a sneaker and streetwear convention, which makes this trade-show retail, not a partnership. A collaborative product exclusive to that weekend is documented nowhere. To inflate it further would be fabrication.
29 March 2024: the drop of the Dodger Collection
The Dodger Collection closed March out, published on the brand’s blog on 29 March 2024. The post lists a hoodie, a tee, a fitted cap and a dad hat, and kids tees, the clearest piece list in this record. No other named collection has documented headwear, which matters practically. The store’s hat collection returns no products as of September 2026, so no cap from it can be bought new. The post does not establish whether any license sat behind the name. 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. The strongest evidence here belongs to Trapstar: the London label published the collaboration from its own verified accounts in April 2024. Beyond the hoodie, no official piece list is documented. A resale platform catalogues 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. This is the entry to lean on hardest of all of them.
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. Outside the store listing, no launch coverage was found. The store’s own collaborations collection contains only this product. Because most of its collaborations never get a permanent catalogue home, tracing them means reading dated posts. The entry counts as a product record with a publication date, not an announced event.
24 July 2026: the capsule with Stinc Team
It runs to an ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon tee and shorts, plus a wider Awful Lot Of Stincs capsule. Stinc Team is the most recent documented collaboration, published to the store on 24 July 2026. The date comes from the store feed, so it marks when product went live. 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. It is confirmed as product, a narrower claim than confirmed as a campaign.
What is confirmed, what is only claimed and what merely circulates
All of the above rests on a dated source, while three further items do not. 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. 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, turning up on resale listings and in a store collection name but with no announcement and no licensing confirmation. The third of them is an LRG collaboration at ComplexCon, which the brand’s own press release names once with no date attached. Independent confirmation is missing for both, so calling either a licensed collaboration would be a guess dressed as a fact. The same press release also names music artists as past merch collaborators, an undated claim the brand makes about itself. The two columns are kept apart in the table on purpose.
| Release or collaboration | The date | What it actually was | Confirmation status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookies pop-up | 8 April 2023 | Melrose Avenue pop-up | Covered by an outside publication |
| BlueBucksClan capsule | 28 April 2023 | Capsule honoring Drakeo The Ruler | Covered by an outside publication |
| 310babii collaboration | 11 March 2024 | Announced via the brand’s own blog | Brand’s own confirmation |
| The Rolling Loud California activation | 14 to 17 March 2024 | Carnival with two onsite stores, Inglewood | Confirmed by the brand |
| Got Sole booth | 19 March 2024 | An appearance at a convention | Confirmed by the brand |
| The Dodger Collection | 29 March 2024 | Hoodie, tee, hats, kids tees | Confirmed by the brand |
| Trapstar | April 2024 | Posted by Trapstar on its own accounts | Partner’s own confirmation |
| The Rhime shoes | 1 August 2025 | Shoes in the collabs collection | Confirmed as product |
| Stinc Team capsule | 24 July 2026 | A Dragon tee and shorts | Confirmed as product |
| The unattributed ALOCS x YSL capsule | 12 September 2026 | Capsule of five pieces | Partner unconfirmed |
| Cartoon Network items | No date found | Only resale listings | No confirmation |
| LRG at ComplexCon | No date found | A single press release mention | Not confirmed |