mosh mask by HBML
HBML exclusive! each order gets 2 bandanas: one pink, one grey. $10
SOLD OUT!!!!!!
this versatile handkerchief now for sale is printed with a (probably)-larger-than-your-actual-skull skull print, designed so as to be worn in as menacing a way as possible. perfect for small-town bank robberies, bicycle gang activity, and child rearing. can be worn in desperado style, as shown above, or in full face view:
can also be worn as a headband with the teeth chewing your brain (and your bangs as a mustache):
as stated, each order gets one in grey and one in pink:
Kind of lame, I hope none of you actually listen to crass, if you’re just going to dump their logo on your overpriced snot rag, no offense; but it’s seriously kind of lame.
Cool store though.
Punk is dead
Yes that’s right, punk is dead,
It’s just another cheap product for the consumers head.
Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors,
Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters.
CBS promote the Clash,
But it ain’t for revolution, it’s just for cash.
Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be
And it ain’t got a thing to do with you or me.
-Crass
January 22, 2009 @ 1:52 am
whoa! it’s “seriously” “kind of” “lame”? you sure you want to unleash all that fire on me? anyway, the crass logo is only on the picture, not the snot rag. actually, even in the picture it’s only half on the rag and half on a person (who may or may not be on the rag (just joking allison!)). and they are only overpriced on the internet- in person they are rather reasonable.
although, now that i think about it, we did do a silk screening day where people brought in whatever they wanted and we silk screened the crass logo onto it. and it was a fundraiser, we made money. so i’m still implicit in “selling punk”. ha, and now that i think of it, we were planning on making a bandana where three of the corners were the crass logo and the fourth was the spice girls logo. that’s still a good idea, right?
anyway, don’t worry, no offense taken, you’re just some yahoo on the internet with no idea what motivates me, or how i live, or what my politics are. i totally do not care!
January 22, 2009 @ 6:04 am
Look, I get that you have your own reasons and what not for doing whatever it is that you do, but bear in mind that not all feedback is going to be in the form of accolades. My feedback wasn’t even that bad, it was just honest. It was and still is bizarre to me the idea of using a outspokenly anti-commercial groups symbol on some cheap commodity or in said articles advertisement.
I get that you might not like something like that being pointed out, and admittedly my words weren’t the best vehicle for my message. I hear you say that “you don’t care”, but if you didn’t you wouldn’t bother responding.
When you did respond you found the need to denigrate by name calling or rationalizing with that “He doesn’t know me” crap. Which in my experience is the last bastion of idiocy, though in your case who knows, since we both know, we don’t know. My opinion is mine and isn’t dependent upon knowing your motivations when it apparent that you’re selling a product(the apparent motivation).
I stand by the notion that using a symbol in a way that would at best garner a halfhearted chuckle from those who stood behind it, is at best silly.
All in all I think your store is a good thing, as I stated earlier in my a fore mentioned commentary you putz (my equivalence of yahoo I guess).
Anyway, don’t worry, no offense taken, you’re just some putz on the internet with no idea what motivates me, or how I live, or what my politics are. i totally don’t care!
Sincerely
-Internet Yahoo
January 22, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
this rules! i love the internet.
the funny thing to me in the original post was not the actual content (which is a valid critique, one i didn’t just erase, which is totally within my power). instead i honed in on the confused and milquetoast epithet “seriously kind of lame” (when you could’ve said “this sucks! do you even like crass? if so what’s wrong with you?”) and “no offense”, which makes everything funny: “uh, no offense, but you look and smell like fresh dogshit, and move like same on a wiggly table.”. the crass / spice world thing, by the way, is totally true, i just forgot about it.
anyway, i don’t really know why i put the crass logo on the picture, i guess it’s because the whole bandana thing (especially matched with the sunglasses) approaches the “revolutionary aesthetic”, speaking of embarrassing epithets (fuck shepard fairey), and i wanted to sort of make fun of that. and extremely secondary to this, the “crass look” is so drab, and the picture has so much color, i thought it was funny. honestly, i’m with you- the crass logo is the one thing that, if i saw it on a t-shirt in an urban outfitters, i would smash the window. so i put it on the ad because, well, it’s kind of an unbelievable signifier- an anticapitalist logo on an advertisement? it’s true that on the internet, everyone is just some yahoo, and you don’t know me from urban outfitters, and i forget sometimes that jokes i make for myself, other people can take and run with in all sorts of directions (some quite reasonable). someday, come to the store and look around, i think you’ll be immediately satisfied with our pretttttty fucked approach to / commentary on / interactions with late capitalism. and if not, i’ll be right there, we can talk about it for as long as you want (or until we start just talking about bands, which i’m not really interested in). in short, i don’t think you’re a bad person and i understand taking issue with the use of a semi-sacred icon in a funky boutique / art gallery.
there’s a book my friend got me for my birthday, of russian prison tattoos, which is a highly codified system of symbols and logos. they mention that if you show up in prison with tattoos that signify that you are a member of a group that you are not indeed a member of, you are given a rock or piece of glass to take the tattoo off with. what i’m saying is, the penalties for signifying are harsh and not for no reason– i am confidant that i (and the shoppe) will hold up to any sufficiently thorough investigation in re “signifying”. and if not, do not hesitate to pull the trigger on the entire operation.
January 22, 2009 @ 10:24 pm