Hey Internet, can we get this fantastic image on a T-shirt, please? Thanks so much.
Most readers of this site will be familiar with the iconic cover art of Slint‘s second and final album Spiderland, released in 1991.
This amusing reworking inserts the familiar foursome of idle males from the long-running FOX series King of the Hill into the album cover. So according to this, moving from left to right, Dale is bobbing where Todd Brashear once bobbed, Bill is Brian McMahan, Hank is Britt Walford, and Boomhauer is David Pajo.
As we learned a couple years back, the quarry in which the picture was taken is located in or around Utica, Indiana, not far from Louisville, whence the band hailed. The original photograph was taken by Will Oldham.
This clever image appears to be the product of a fellow named J.W. Friedman, who along with the intrguingly named Chris Collision runs I Don’t Even Own a Television, which is a “podcast about bad books.” Hats off to you!
Here’s an 8-bit rendition of “Good Morning, Captain”:
h/t: Ned Raggett
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
8-Bit version of Slint’s ‘Good Morning, Captain’
Slint and Will Oldham discuss that famous ‘Spiderland’ album cover