WHOS GONNA BUY ME THESE
The fucked up thing is no one will call this cultural appropriation. Fuck this shit. Punk culture is a culture of its own creation created to subvert mainstream society. Seeing this pisses me off to no end. You like 1D? Cool, good for fucking you. But keep your mainstream band off punk band labels.
Punk hasn’t subverted mainstream anything since like 1999 chill out
Chill out? Ok, so I’m supposed to let iconic band labels be used with a mainstream band because it’s “ironic” and “edgy”. Fuck that. Punk culture has been more subversive than you think. We create our bands, not with profit in mind, but to get a message to people. It’s a way to vent our rage at the world. Playing Rage Against the Machine in an office isn’t appropriating the band, if anything, is expressing how the person feels about their work space.
But taking another bands label that is from a subversive culture, or, counter-culture if you like that better, and putting a mainstream band name on it is fucking ignorant.
But these t shirts are sold by companies to make a profit, you’ve been able to buy a Rolling Stones t shirt at a k-mart or a Target since those stores existed
And regardless of people’s intentions their subculture can still be commercialized unless you think that Mod is still a hypersubversive fashion trend
You’re absolutely right, but they didn’t have another bands FUCKING NAME ON IT
So why do you care so much about the sanctity of a commercialized product?
Holy shit holy shit holy shit omg
wait i saw this post before but not with this wild argument underneath holy shit
you see this argument this is why need this fucking shirt
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