Love Will Tear Us Apart
October 9th, 2007 | Published in T-Shirts | 5 Comments
For someone who never even got the chance to see them live during their extremely brief tenure — mostly because Ian Curtis died when I was two — I really love Joy Division quite a bit. So much so that my all-time favorite song is the inspiration for the tee I’m going to be talking about today.
Now when I say “all-time favorite”, I seriously mean it. I obsessively listen to this song — or a semi-reasonable facsimile — at least once a day. I’ve also considered getting the phrase tattooed somewhere on my person, something I don’t think about doing unless it means the world to me. You could say I’m a bit hardcore, I guess…
Anyhow, the concept is actually a pretty basic but very cool one. All the shirts have on them is nothing more than the running time and title of the song — and that’s it. That might not fly for some of you, but I happen to really like the idea and execution here.
Now I could try to be impartial and talk about one of the other shirts Blanka offers — they even have really clever Helvetica ones — but most of you are already keen to the fact that I like to indulge my obsessions more than anything else. So despite the fact that they have similar shirts for Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, The Smiths, Public Enemy, New Order and AC/DC, I’ve gotta go with what I love. Y’all understand that, right?
£29,00 | PayPal | URL | M: S - XL
October 10th, 2007 at 12:10 am (#)
I’m assuming you’ve already gotten the recently released Joy Division themed shirt from Threadless then?
October 10th, 2007 at 12:17 am (#)
It might surprise you considering the gushing above, but I’m extremely “meh” over that shirt. Way too emo for the likes of me.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:05 am (#)
29 US dollars… that’s not even 15 British Pounds at current Exchange. Oh wait… that’s a pound sign(*) in front of the 29 there? As they say over here, blimey!
This symbol: # - that’s a called hash, not a pound sign!
October 11th, 2007 at 2:23 pm (#)
to me that reads 3 feet 18 inches not 3 minutes 18 seconds. which is kinda silly too. should be 4 feet 6 inches. *shrug*
October 12th, 2007 at 7:01 pm (#)
I tend to use the shirt as a basis for who is cool or not. If a person sees me wearing it and claims that it is emo, they are not my friend. If they accept the Joy Division shout-out, I will buy them pie.