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Entries associated with the tag "Nirvana":

March 18th - 6:53 p.m.

I'm not one to knock on someone else's hustle, and as a recovering sneaker addict I have a hard time bagging on any sort of special-edition shoe, no matter how ridiculous, but I can't really hang with Converse's Kurt Cobain signature series. It's not so much that the series includes prescuffed replicas of the shoes he killed himself in--which is at least as morbid and exploitative as the death-certificate T-shirts that came out within days of his suicide--but that the insoles of the death shoes have "punk rock means freedom" written on them.

Will some 17-year-old kids please start a punk band that is so obnoxious and shitty that no one as old as I am can get into it? Otherwise I'm afraid that after this atrocity the cosmic punk scales are gonna end up tipped the wrong way.

November 16th - 2:59 p.m.
A couple of weeks ago ad execs and music supervisors for TV and film got a super-deluxe treat from the music publishing house Primary Wave. The company recently acquired the rights to a chunk of Nirvana's back catalog and to mark the occasion—and to tempt their way into some soundtrack cash—made up a one-of-a-kind five-disc set of Nirvana tracks and covers of Nirvana songs by other artists, packaged in a fancy-ass wooden heart-shaped box lined with grunge-y plaid. Only 500 were produced, and none were made available to the general public. In fact, the one set (64/500) that made its way onto eBay has been pulled from auction, which makes the set officially only available to rich suit types in the sell-out industry. My irony circuits are completely fried.



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