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Turning rebellion into money? Limited edition Converse/ Clash trainers: Discuss
Posted by PaddyH on 2 December 2009 - 9:49am.
THIS just in on a press release from Sony about the commercial cluster f@ck that is the 30th anniversary of London Calling.
'Converse have collaborated with the Clash to produce a new range of limited edition shoes set to hit stores in January. More details to follow.'
Reminds me of the Linda McCartney steak knife of nearly 20 years ago, but at least that was made up.
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Good luck to them...
I would suggest they expand their operations into...
toasters
flippers
oven gloves
dusters
attaché cases for the rebellious diplomat
what does
the little blue arrow do in the bottom left corner
I don't understand
a t-shirt is good a pair of shoes is bad. Also Clash fans are partly to blame their reverential uncritical worship towards Joe and the lads initiated the process that Sony et al have just picked up on. A large amount of the Clash tat will be bought by ageing "yeah we was always darn the 100 club back in the day, punks not dead..." types.
That or you can just think of them as pop art and not worry too much.
We shall see
If it sells they'll do more. If it doesn't they won't. It's in the hands of the fans.
shurely
shurely it's on the feet of the fans.
They'll at least vote with said body parts.
Joy division oven gloves
As always, HMHB got their comments in first
Converse...
also do a Pink Floyd range
http://pabuc.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/converse-pink-floyd-spring-2009...
and ACDC
http://www.geeksneakers.com/wp-content/gallery/409/acdc-converse-chuck-t...
I think it would be great if somebody
actually manufactured Fuck Buttons fuck buttons.
I've made a private
and completely arbitrary decision to never listen to F*ckbutton's music on the basis of their rotten and tedious name.
But would you ever
stop yourself from using fuck buttons (whatever they might be) for the same reason?
On the other hand, maybe
"fuck buttons" is an instruction rather than a thing. I just hope, however, that said instruction refers to squidgy, mountable shirt fasteners rather than a squidgy mountable pet rabbit of the same name.
Indeed
still a rotten name.
Could I not tempt you
with some Vanilla Fudge vanilla fudge?
or would you sooner
roger Roger Roger?
Fuck Buttons
....make a sound that I literally imagine the world will sound like when it dies...
are they any thing
like "Peter, Paul & Mary" then? Not sure from your post whether you consider this a good thing . I think I have spent far too long considering the FB's than they deserve.
I think I'm going to make you
some "Fuck 'Fuck Buttons' fuck buttons" buttons, Chris.
with frank from Blue velvet on them
You F*cking f*ck buttons , f*cking f*ckers you f*ck buttons f*ckers etc and fade
Baby wants to
fuck buttons?
that's one messed up
pantomime dirty dancing blue velvet mash up!
Well, you say 'private'...
.
Isn't the 'fuck' button shortcut Ctrl, Alt, ^,( ?
Sadly I couldn't find a link
to the 'Kiss Kasket' (TM) so this will have to do ...
Surely there must be one in the Word office?
http://www.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/wa/product?sourceCod...
Anyway, re the original post, The Clash were always 30% about the clothes, and 30% about the pose. No?
Love The Clash
but never 'got' London Calling. Think it's an embarrassment. And I already have a pair of Converse. Dunno why I posted really.
What a shame.
Their intellectually rigorous poli'icul stance (not at all just that they thought ‘Sandinista’ was a cool name and that poster of Ché was the dogs knackers) has been ruined by this tawdry commerciality.
You’ll be telling me that anti-globalisation heart-throb Damon Albarn has flogged his music to planet-destroying British Gas next…
Not Damon Albarn
..he really loves sticking it to the man.
I think from now on I'll just stick with the albums and not worry about all the other stuff that should grate.
BTW: What was the last 'London Calling' reissue with the Guy Stevens home videos all about then if a new one is coming out?
this is a half remembered
memory (see my recent secret affair tv thing) but in 1979/80 we used to go to "Halfpennys" spice shop* next to our secondary school as well as "jawbreakers" and these little 2p home made flavourless lollies I remember that for a brief period you could get tiny replica lp sleeves with a pink disc of dryish "choddy" (some say "chuddy", some say "Chungy" some say well boring southerners "chewing gum") in the shape of a little record. One of the sleeves was Neil Diamonds OST "Jazz singer" and another I'n sure was Mr Simonon smashing up his strat** so it's been going on for a while. Sorry can't get internet proof anyone else remember these?
*in our enclave of medieval south yorkshire sweets were called "spice".
** cue deluge of guitar spoddery correcting me!
Fender P-Bass wasn't it?
What a great memory
I would love some London Calling chewing gum - thus I am rendered an unwilling and illogical hypocrite...
Turning rebellion into
footwear just doesn't have the same ring(tone) to it but people will vote with their feet. I'm abstaining. By the way, the Clash split up a long time ago. One of them's dead, one's incapacitated, one's lovely but a bit damaged and the other's a painter. They had their vital time but, like Bowie or Mikhail Gorbachev, it passed. History repeats itself, wait and see - it has to: no one listens.
Strikes me as the same as ever...
Strikes me it's the same as a Che Guevara tee shirt - the wearer advertising their loyalties (or the loyalties they wish people to think/believe they have), serviced by the fine upstanding altruistic capitalist vendors of same. Political or otherwise.
Now, I'll just put on my vintage Del Amitri "Change Everything" tee and all will be well.