Levi’s Sonic Youth Tee Collection
 

Sonic Youth says, “Rock & roll bands, whether they're Classic, Metal, Punk, or Pop, have always worn Levi’s® on and off the stage. As a band defining the interplay of the radical and traditional, we are excited to partner with Levi’s® to crank up the noise and spread the good word.”

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i wonder who wrote that copy hahhaha. but either way i wish them good profits

What's up with those pants - shit's gone from painted-on skinny to crazy baggy? I guess that's fashion's pendulum for ya... One thing that will never be hip, and is therefore more punk than all that crap: normal fucking pants!

this is the canadian link - honestly, these are some of my favorite prints ever and they don't look that radically different from my long-worn originals - worth the $50 apiece?

i don't see the washing machine shirt at that link but i'm not sure i appreciate that logo on a black tee to begin with...

No, thanks. I'll stick to my cheap 'Confusion is Sex' socks fr9m Temu.
https://www.temu.com/uk/1-pair-mens-unisex-hip-hop-vintage--youth-street-style-pattern-printed-funny-novelty--socks-compression-polyester-95-elastane-5-310g-hand-wash-or--clean-knit-fabric-random-print-g-601100115123886.html?_oak_mp_inf=EK692Lao1ogBGiBjM mZkNDcxODZlNWM0OTgzYTc2NTkxOTMwNDM1YmNiNSCg3rXt3TI %3D&thumb_url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.kwcdn.com%2Fproduc t%2Fopen%2Fff1282651663426d8d7624075332f9f4-goods.jpeg%3FimageView2%2F2%2Fw%2F500%2Fq%2F60%2Ff ormat%2Fwebp&_web_cover=thumb_url&pic_h=2000&pic_w =2000&spec_gallery_id=6221444434&refer_page_sn=100 09&refer_source=10001&freesia_scene=2&_oak_freesia _scene=2&_oak_rec_ext_1=MzY2&_oak_gallery_order=10 44357662%2C1540550194%2C1715652100%2C956559134%2C1 582469336&refer_page_el_sn=200049&from_rec=1&enabl e_cache=1&_x_sessn_id=xws2ycox0d&refer_page_name=s earch_result&refer_page_id=10009_1743180888338_vct rpumanw

I was at Walmart the other day and saw a faded Nirvana tour T-shirt. I was like "what thhhheee. . .?" Looking at it closer, there were holes and the neck had a bunch of notches taken out of it. I thought someone tried on a shirt and had left theirs. Turns out, it comes pre-"long-worn" so that everyone can appear to be hip! $13.99.


But, yeah, $50 for a shirt is highway robbery!

This makes me feel sad

eh, don't be

what makes me sad is when beloved musicians need "benefit concerts" to pay for medical treatments,and the family to cover funeral expenses, etc..

pay up, hipster! :p xD

The downside of Sonic Youth shirts becoming a fashion statement is that I'll look like a fool by bringing up Society Is a Hole when I'm trying to hit on people wearing them.

hahaaaaaaahaaa

yeah. anyway their last foray with fashion was with ejstns i think. and kim launching her x-girl brand or something? so long ago...

then they had their cds at starbucks (cds! so long ago)

now these shirts are like the return of the 70s trucker hat: a retro thing. it's fitting that levi's would produce them, with the denim pant being a 19th century invention and all

everything recedes very quickly into the past as you get old. bad moon rising just turned 40!! 40! 40

I seem to remember an article where Henry Rollins and Thurston Moore talk about the 'significance' of Levi's in hardcore punk. It may have been a video, but it's been a while. I thought it was the lamest thing.

HEY! YOU'RE THE DEVIL!

it's because, as you well know, american hardcore punk was always mostly a middle class phenomenon, so that fetishistic consumerism was at the core of their (unconscious) ideology. "you are what you buy" is all there is to hipsterdom

i honestly do not know how people came to believe that these bands are made up of great revolutionaries. when i send music links to my leftist foreign friends they spit on me for being an americanizing bastard. i tell them it's good music, but they will have none of it. at least they are consistent

anyway, on more of the "you are what you buy" praxis, see for example the following case:



WHY, THANK YOU

Well, I certainly don't think I am what I buy. Thousands of people have the same records I have and most of them are mooks. Because most people in general are mooks.

"YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN!" —Fugazi, "Merchandise" :)

i know what you mean! and having many of these items in your collection will definitely prove where you stand :D

https://www.merchbar.com/hard-rock-metal/fugazi

(it's okay, even walter benjamin was a degenerate book collector)

(he bought them for their aura)

(his father was a banker and antiques dealer lol)

(classic bourgeois affectation)

(people are so funny)

^ If you think I "collect" too much stuff (which I don't, that's for another post) you should read Henry Rollins' FANATIC! books. Now that is a ride...

the levi's man?? xD WHY

NO

Coming from a gym rat and a backward baseball cap wearing grown man I am not surprised.

Well I think this is that except with corny t-shirts because the band won't reform