
In life, you can count on but two things: people are terrible, and they will sell anything — no matter how crass, tasteless or in poor taste. This includes, apparently, Kurt Cobain’s suicide note as a shirt. Who would even want that?
Ask and ye shall receive, person on Twitter. In black, red or a tank top for all your accessorizing needs!
An Etsy store — I know, I was shocked it wasn’t Urban Outfitters, too — has been selling T-shirts with Kurt Cobain’s suicide note on them. As expected, the internet was outraged. A Change.org petition was created asking Etsy to pull the shirts and issue a public apology.
It has recently come to my attention that small independent businesses all over the web have been selling merchandise (ie, T-shirts, tank tops, etc) with Kurt Cobain’s very real suicide letter printed all over them.
This not only is a huge insult and slap to the face toward the legend Kurt Cobain himself, but as well as to all of his loved ones, his devoted fans, his legacy, and most importantly people around the world who currently suffer with mental illnesses of their own such as depression, anxiety and self image dysphoria.
Mental illness and suicidal behavior is not a fashion statement, and it is not meant to be glamorized or flaunted about on a t-shirt. These shirts do nothing but encourage impressionable minds that these tendencies and behaviors are something to be displayed proudly or as some sort of cool status. Wearing this merchandise is no different than wearing a shirt with a depiction of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center.
I am formally asking all businesses that carry these utterly disrespectful shirts (as well as all other merchandise with the printed note) to formally apologize for ever selling them in the first place, and to immediately discontinue the distribution of said products.
The shirts have been pulled from Etsy. After being pulled from Etsy, the shirts were available on eBay. It appears eBay has also pulled the shirts. Or they sold out. I prefer the former.
Source: ONTD
i would want it if it were a regular t shirt and it was free or the money went someone. tis is somewhere between crass cold capitalism and poetic
Courtney Love’s hand writing is hard to read.
+1!
Fucking kids
Rolling Stone chose this shirt as their album of the year
I see a film in this. Avengers 6: Age of Ultrahipster.
No this isn’t cool actually disrespectful probably don’t even listen to Nirvana dumbass kid no respect
Your reckless disregard for punctuation is the greater offense.
Too soon?
Why is this disrespectful?? He wrote obviously to make it public, how much more publicity can you get from the grave. Dave Grolhl would be just another drummer in the band had Cobain not killed himself. I love the band but quit trying to get attention and whine about something that has absolutely nothing to do with you or your problems.
This is so disrespectful…
1. ITS A SUICIDE NOTE come on, those SHOULD NOT be represented as a “band symbol” or whatever
2. Have you read the note? Do you know the reason for the suicide? He hated the fame and publicity! And why would you put his freaking suicide note on a shirt for all to see?
Makes me sick