May 23, 2019

Kurt Cobain’s “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” shirt becomes $550 designer tee

French fashion label Vetements is selling an “Oversized Printed Cotton-Jersey T-Shirt” that rips off the “Corporate magazines still suck” shirt that Kurt Cobain famously wore on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1992. They sell it for $550! The shirt reads “CORPORATE MAGAZINES STILL SUCK A LOT!” The “A LOT!” is a new addition to Cobain’s slogan, and so is the circle-A anarchist symbol that takes the place of the “A”, Rolling Stone reports. Kurt Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, isn't happy with this - she commented on Vetements’ Instagram post announcing the collection, writing, “You guys WHAT the FUCK? I hate being put in this position. You should know better!” Meanwhile, Nirvana are suing another clothing brand, Marc Jacobs, for ripping off the band’s iconic smiley face design in its recently relaunched Bootleg Grunge Redux collection, as Stereogum reported. In other make-money-on-Cobain news, gray acrylic and mohair cardigan that the Nirvana frontman wore in a New York photoshoot in 1993 - his last before his death - just sold at auction for $75,000, PageSix reports. A used paper plate that Cobain ate pizza off of and then wrote a setlist on also sold for $22,000.