Behind the release pattern at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup
Batch releases, rather than seasonal collections, are how merchandise lands here. New lines go live on the brand’s own online store on a week-or-two cadence, and then sell through its stores in Los Angeles and Houston. That store’s feed, read on 29 September 2026, holds publication dates that cluster hard: twelve products on 24 July 2026, eleven on 12 September, ten on 25 September. No drop calendar is published anywhere. Stock clears fast, and that day 619 of 1,443 size variants were sold out, close to 43 percent. Coverage of the label centres on long lines at the Melrose Avenue store and limited-edition drops.
Only one mechanic stands permanently, the mystery item: a mystery tee at about $75, mystery alocs hoodies 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. Because no restock policy is published, 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 documented collaboration record
Every collaboration and activation the research documents appears below, in date order, with nothing added from resale chatter. The source is named in each entry: 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. The brand’s name refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean, which explains the medical and horror imagery in these releases. Some entries are thin here and are left thin. Where a piece list or a price was never published, nothing is invented here.
8 April 2023: the pop-up with Cookies
The earliest dated collaboration is with Cookies, the brand co-founded by Berner. On 8 April 2023 it launched as That’s A Awful Lot Of Cookies. The pop-up was staged at the Cookies store at 8360 Melrose Avenue. It is a dated event to record, 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: That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary, with BlueBucksClan
Three weeks after that, a capsule with the Los Angeles duo BlueBucksClan arrived. It was titled That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary and released on 28 April 2023 at the 7669 Melrose Avenue flagship. It honored the late Drakeo The Ruler, and every account of the drop leads with that. It is one of the few releases documented by an outside publication at the time. Anyone cataloguing thats a awful lot of cough syrup collaborations should date this one and stop. What the sourcing covers is the event and the intent, not the fabric.
11 March 2024: the 310babii announcement
With that post as the only source, the date is solid and the substance is thin. The brand announced a collaboration with 310babii on its own blog on 11 March 2024. Nothing fixes the piece count, the colorways or the prices. It kicks off a March 2024 stretch 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. A name and a date make up the honest entry.
14 to 17 March 2024: Rolling Loud California
Nothing documented runs bigger than Rolling Loud California, staged from 14 to 17 March 2024 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. On site the brand built a carnival, with arcade games and a swing ride, and it ran two onsite stores across the four days. The whole sourced description ends there, and it comes from the brand’s own release. Something that size is not a capsule: it sold product, yet it 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 appear in the documentation.
19 March 2024: the pop-up at Got Sole
Two days after the festival closed, the brand turned up at Got Sole in Los Angeles on 19 March 2024. What survives is a recap on the brand’s own blog, the label’s account of its own booth. Since Got Sole is a sneaker and streetwear convention, this is trade-show retail, not a partnership. A collaborative product exclusive to that weekend is documented nowhere. The entry gives a date and the fact that the brand works conventions. Inflating it further would be fabrication.
29 March 2024: the drop of the Dodger Collection
The post lists a hoodie, a tee, a fitted cap and a dad hat, and kids tees, the clearest piece list in this record. The Dodger Collection closed March out, published on the brand’s blog on 29 March 2024. 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. Since the store’s hat collection returns no products as of September 2026, no cap from it can be bought new. Date it to March 2024 and describe the contents as the brand did.
April 2024: Trapstar, the London label
The strongest evidence on this page belongs to Trapstar, because the London label published the collaboration from its own verified accounts in April 2024. Evidence from a partner outweighs a reseller’s caption and removes the question of who authorized what. Nothing documents an official piece list beyond the hoodie. On a resale platform, a Trapstar collaboration hoodie is catalogued 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: the Rhime shoes
The Rhime Shoes were listed at about $100, down from about $200, at the brand’s own store as of September 2026; prices change. Footwear entered the catalogue through Rhime USA, whose shoes were published to the store on 1 August 2025. Nothing beyond the store listing turned up as launch coverage. Inside the store’s own collaborations collection they are the only product. Tracing most of its collaborations means reading dated posts, because they never get a permanent catalogue home. What the entry is: a product record with a publication date, not an announced event.
24 July 2026: the Stinc Team drop
The latest documented collaboration remains Stinc Team, published to the store on 24 July 2026. An ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon tee and shorts make it up, plus a wider Awful Lot Of Stincs capsule. That date is a store feed date, so what it marks is when product went live. No press release accompanied it in the material reviewed. 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 only claimed and what merely circulates
A dated source holds up everything above, and three further items lack one. 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. Second is a Cartoon Network collaboration; it surfaces on resale listings and in a store collection name but has no announcement and no licensing confirmation. The third is an LRG collaboration at ComplexCon, named once in the brand’s own press release with no date attached. The same press release also names music artists as past merch collaborators, an undated claim the brand makes about itself. Independent confirmation is missing for both, so calling either a licensed collaboration would be a guess dressed as a fact. The two columns are kept apart in the table on purpose.
| The release or collaboration | Date on record | What the thing was | Status of confirmation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookies pop-up | 8 April 2023 | Melrose Avenue pop-up | Covered by an outside publication |
| The BlueBucksClan capsule | 28 April 2023 | Capsule honoring Drakeo The Ruler | Covered by an outside publication |
| 310babii | 11 March 2024 | Announced on the brand’s blog | Confirmed by the brand |
| Rolling Loud California | 14 to 17 March 2024 | Carnival, two onsite stores, Inglewood | Brand-confirmed |
| Got Sole booth | 19 March 2024 | Appearance at a convention | Brand-confirmed |
| Dodger Collection | 29 March 2024 | Hoodie, tee, hats and kids tees | Brand’s own confirmation |
| The Trapstar collaboration | April 2024 | Published by Trapstar itself | Confirmed by the partner |
| Rhime shoes | 1 August 2025 | Shoes, in the collabs collection | Confirmed as a product record |
| The Stinc Team capsule | 24 July 2026 | A Dragon tee and shorts | Confirmed as product |
| Unattributed ALOCS x YSL capsule | 12 September 2026 | Capsule of five pieces | Partner not confirmed |
| Items named for Cartoon Network | No date located | Resale listings and nothing more | Unconfirmed |
| The LRG collaboration at ComplexCon | No date found | A single press release mention | No confirmation |