Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

so i went shopping with my mother today and i was horrified, i saw the worst thing. Steal Your Face symbols on t-shirts in the target clothes section! a couple weeks ago i saw them selling AC/DC shirts and stuff, that shocked me, but now Dead shirts!

i don't get whats up with kids today, at the Lucky Brand store, you can buy a shirt with a picture of a vintage bob dylan poster on it for like 40 bucks! first of all, damn thats godamn expensive, secondly since when do kids my age, not to mention, kids who shop at places like buckle, listen to Bob Dylan. vintage is in, but its weird because its all these old bands that i didn't think people my age listened to, and because its fucking department stores and expensive stores like lucky. what's the deal? i mean why? why would they do that, market Dylan of all artist to a generation like mine, who doesn't give a fuck? is it working, i haven't seen anyone wearing these t-shirts, yet suddenly they have become really big because they're being sold everwhere...i know this isn't philosophical or litteraary...but it just blows my mind. Grateful dead teachers at target.

And Bob Dylan signs with Starbuck's:

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--Z

I almost had to go out back and vomit when I first heard a Who tune being played behind a commercial on TV. But on the other hand, many young bands these days make a great deal of their living from merchandising. T-shirts and caps and cd's and other trinkets.
Still, it makes me ill when I see an artist blatantly selling out.
Sure, I would sell out in a minute if anybody was buying, but christ, can you imagine a Tom Waits tune being played behind a Cialis commercial?

I'd love to have a Grateful Dead T-shirt - ladies tank top, please.

I don't see anything wrong with Bob Dylan signing with Victoria's Secret (one of my favorite stores) or Starbucks (I drink their chilled bottled cappaccino almost every morning.)

I love it when a commercial comes on TV that has a great tune with it... the Who is fine... I liked a lot of their music.

its not the selling out so much as the confusion as to who is buying the t-shirts...these are not like good Dead shirts, there like cheesy ones where they just slapped the image on...it probably comes off after two washes.

KiDdo,

don't you see the perfect commercial logic here?

After two washings you have to buy another T-shirt.

no i mean they're marketing these t-shirts to kids my age who shop at the mall...piss ass people who are you know "preps" why would they buy the stuff...cause someone told them its cool?