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

eh they are never gonna reform due to marital acrimony but the other 3 totally could and should...

It would have to be as a new band though. You couldn't use the SY name w/out Kim.

people gotta pay for the medical care as they age....

Van Halen sold out Panama for a car commercial, gotta pay those doctor bills

Nothing wrong with wearing good quality jeans, if you can afford them. If the music you make is also great, even better. Just don't go on and on about 'revolutionary', 'radical', 'political' etc ideals when you are taking a simple garment to blah blah blah to the press because some hack needed something to write. That's not cool, is it? Nevermind the filthy commies not finding that cool. Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, and Kim Gordon, for that matter, will never be taken seriously by actual revolutionaries. Enjoy their music, though, why not? Almost everyone loves music.

sure call it whatever, "youth" would sound funny today anyway, maybe tooth (long) still fits. but names aside... those 3 play great together



indeed. eddie van halen's health was famously shit

and thruston's pacemaker wont come cheap (this is just a wild statement and i have no real factual basis to make it)

but yeah


yes!

i love some of the youtube comments on this one. the person who got up at 4am to drive to another town for under the table work while unemployed and got pumped listening to this...

yeah, i am not a fashion person, but i wouldn't want to gas myself to death while driving a trabant for example



yeah it's not cool, it's of course involuntarily funny. but from that to breaking people's hearts it's too much of a leap at our age, i think. just let them have the money

i was looking at patti smith tickets the other day and they were like $500 lol. i love her, the ticket is not worth $500 to me, but i really wish her a sold out show with all my heart so she doesnt have to sleep in the subway again as she claimed https://youtu.be/RpREBg9iZcg?t=176 "papier" xD


almost. i used to know people who would religiously listen to cornelius cardew or folk music while abjuring stockhausen or wagner or rocknroll on a purely ideological basis. they aren't "filthy" though, just... faithful, i guess?

(ps i have read that mao had horrible personal hygiene though lol. myth or fact?)

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eta, i spoke too soon about the price lol

copypasted:

ORCH
Row AA | Seats 112 - 113
Zone Orchestra
See all tickets in this section
Ticket price
$3,567 each including all fees :)
Quantity
2 tickets

https://www.stubhub.com/patti-smith-...performer/2062

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just get the tshirt lol

Saw Patti in 2019. Visceral concert, absolutely great. I was standing against the fence, right in front of her, no-one between us. Fifty bucks.

haha it doesn't matter, that's not the point

You're above everything, aren't you, Chuckles.

again and again that is not the issue. whooosh

the question is if the artists deserve the money

does she deserve your $50? sure

does she deserve $3580 for one first row seat? i think so too

personally i wouldnt pay it, but if she can get it from someone she totally should, and would likely put it to good use

That's all fine; perhaps I didn't read the whole thread carefully, whatever. I'm talking about your overall 'tude, Mr. LOL. But I'm not starting a flame war here.

LOL

:D...

Well I bought them !! Good quality tee's !! The UK site is pretty much all sold out !!! I hope the band make some good money out of this.

This is the only Cornelius I wanna listen to

why?