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Calling for a moratorium on Joy Division mashup T-shirts
06.11.2015
09:53 am
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Calling for a moratorium on Joy Division mashup T-shirts


 
Peter Saville‘s iconic cover art for Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures album is becoming nearly as ubiquitous as the Black Flag bars when it comes to Post-Irony Age Internet appropriation. If there’s any question, we’re offering two dozen examples of t-shirt mashups that make us hate life.

Oscar Wilde said that sarcasm was “the lowest form of wit,” but Wilde never lived to experience the “mashup” genre. As Ian Curtis himself questioned on the Unknown Pleasures album: “Where will it end?”
 

We posted about this one, actually produced by the Walt Disney Corporation, back in 2012. It was killed by an angry Internet, and removed from the Disney catalog.
 

 
Worf/Unknown Pleasures mashup. - We wrote about this one last year. From Threadless.
 

Misfits Crimson Ghost skull/Unknown pleasures mashup. As seen on Pinterest.
 

Jaws/Unknown Pleasures mashup. As seen on Pinterest.
 

Darth Vader/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Shirtoid. Shirtoid is responsible for a slew of these things.
 

Batman/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Shirtoid
 

Donnie Darko/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Shirtoid.
 

Adventure Time/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Shirtoid.
 

Pokémon/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Shirtoid.
 

H.P. Lovecraft/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Teepublic.
 

Legend of Zelda/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Redbubble.
 

Doctor Who/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Redbubble.
 

Wu Tang Clan/Unknown Pleasures mashup.
 

And another Wu Tang Clan/Unknown Pleasures mashup. Via Tumblr.
 

Star Wars Pod Race/Unknown Pleasures mashup. Via Hideyourarms.
 

For fuck’s sake, just STOP. Pug/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From etsy.
 

My Little Pony/Unknown Pleasures mashup. From Redditgifts
 

Santana/Unknown Pleasures “ironic” T shirt. This belongs in a sub-genre of the mashup T shirt: the “incorrect attribution” shirt—originally popularized by the shirt featuring a photograph of Jimi Hendrix with the words “Bob Marley” written above.
 

N’ Sync/Unknown Pleasures misattribution. From Etsy seller 90sTees.
 

Another one of these fucking things. Via Pinterest.
 

Come on. That’s the best you can fucking come up with? It’s probably sold THOUSANDS on Etsy.
 

Oh look I have a baby/Unknown Pleasures mashup. Available on Amazon.
 

Ok, we almost chuckled at this one. From Echo Park Surf Squad.
 

What is this? I’ve seen it on Tumblr.” We noted this one last year. It gets a pass.
 

Posted by Christopher Bickel
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06.11.2015
09:53 am
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