8 Music Posters You See In Every Dorm Room

Decorating your freshman-year dorm room is tough. You want to come across as cool, but not so cool that you line your walls with posters of Animal Collective and Washed Out. You don’t want to be labeled THAT GUY from day one. So rather than buy the poster you really want, the one for Fawlty Towers, you go with Bob Marley Mosaic. Unless you DID buy the Fawlty Towers one, in which case, can we be friends?

There are certain music posters that seem to be in EVERY dorm room, because nothing says “Music *lightning bolt* Band” like the same Pink Floyd picture that everyone has seen a million times. Here are eight music posters you’ve encountered in your life, possibly in every room Rob Ford has passed out in.

1. Shirtless Jim Morrison

What you think it means: you’re a wild child, man.
What it actually means: you love sh*tty organ solos way too much.

2. Pink Floyd Back Catalogue

What you think it means: The Wall is the greatest album of all-time.
What it actually means: no one wants to hear how The Wall is the greatest album of all-time.

3. Bob Marley Mosaic

What you think it means: one love.
What it actually means: white guy with dreadlocks.

4. New York John Lennon

What you think it means: peace and love, peace and love, peace and love.
What it actually means: you like the most OBVIOUS Beatle. George is so much cooler.

5. Abbey Road Beatles

What you think it means: I LOVE THE BEATLES
What it actually means: you don’t listen to any piece of music recorded after 1969.

6. Rainbow Hair Bob Dylan

What you think it means: a psychedelic tribute to the voice of a generation.
What it actually means: you’ve wondered if you were the voice of THIS generation.

7. Middle Finger Johnny Cash

What you think it means: rebellion, mischief, f*ck you.
What it actually means: the only rebelling you’re doing is sneaking an extra waffle out of the dining hall.

8. Girls Kissing

OK, that last one isn’t for a band, but it’s in every dorm EVER.

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