I got one of them from ebay and was skeptical about the color, too, but it's really not
that bad. With some washes and maybe a bit of sunbleaching it'd be great. The product photo has had the colors bumped up. It
is the new stiff t-shirt feel, though. I have been wearing mine as my sleep shirt because I tend to wear the hell out of those and they end up really soft and worn rather quickly.
I am afraid my picture won't help much, my apartment is all direct sunlight all day, so everything looks drowned out. The printing is much more orange-brown than this picture shows. That is some black satin on the side next to the shirt for a color comparison.