I know someone who has a Goo tshirt, he's never listened to the music as far as i know, but i dont really mind

I actually got Electric Jet Set and Dino Jr's Without A Sound at Goodwill, and it was 50% off day! Now if I could actually find a SY shirt at Goodwill, that would be candy right there :)

Surely this all depends on whether you think t-shirts like that are intrisically linked to the albums/artists that they represent or whether they can stand on their own in purely aesthetic/fashionable terms, removed from the music that spawned them.

The Goo album design itself represents an appropriation of an image of David and Maureen Smith, relatives of the Moors Murderers, going to a court. Yet most would argue wearing the t-shirt doesn't amount to to condoning the murder of children.

I guess the point is that sometimes sleeves like this transcend their original medium, gaining more pop-cultural significance as a piece of iconic artwork than as any kind of representation of music. So you're bound to get fashion victims or those with an artistic bent wearing stuff like the Goo design. I mean c'mon, David Beckham wore a t-shirt with an Exodus album cover on it.

Too much thought for a thread about band shirts.

I remember in highschool going back yearrrrrs ago now. Some kidhad an Alice in Chains shirt and I made comment about it, he gave me a puzzled look and I realised he hadn't a clue, I said the band on your shirt, and he said something along the lines of "I don't know who they are. My mum bought it for me".

I am with you porkmarrasssarramkrop

I HATE when people wear band shirts and do not know or like the band. especially when they do it on purpose.

robs

When I was school age, I used to wear a t-shirt with this design:



I knew nothing about Roy Lichtenstein, I just liked the picture.

why did Sonic Youth let Urban Outfitters sell their shirts? WHY?

really?, i have never heard of this!

The graphics aren't Sonic Youth's to sell or not sell anyway, the belong to the artists.

IVE FIGURED OUT WHY!!!

watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny_j-bAhq68

I don't know. I think it's kind of cool. The guy's showing off the Roy Pettibon artwork more than the album, really. As band T's go, there aren't many as classy, so at least he's showing good taste--and promoting good art.

I wonder how many of the people who wear that shirt know they're promoting the Rolling Stones?

Damn H&M too, they were the store that started selling Ramones/The Clash shirts!

ha ha ha ha!, well he did "I'm a celebrity get me outta here" based on that he probably loves having them sold in K-Mart.

he needs/wants the attention/money is all i'm saying.

bah, hes old now and already did his job, let him sell out i say :P

Let him sell out? Johnny Rotten? He's the epitomy of fake.

neither John Lydon nor any of the sex pistols have any say as to how the pistols are marketed. They are Malcom mclaren's band. He decides. he owns the rights.