Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Music / Crickets From his private diary to the bottoms of your sweaty feet
Posted by Miles Raymer on 03.18.08 at 06:53 PM
I'm not one to knock on someone else's hustle, and as a recovering sneaker addict I have a hard time bagging on any sort of special-edition shoe, no matter how ridiculous, but I can't really hang with Converse's Kurt Cobain signature series. It's not so much that the series includes prescuffed replicas of the shoes he killed himself in--which is at least as morbid and exploitative as the death-certificate T-shirts that came out within days of his suicide--but that the insoles of the death shoes have "punk rock means freedom" written on them.
Will some 17-year-old kids please start a punk band that is so obnoxious and shitty that no one as old as I am can get into it? Otherwise I'm afraid that after this atrocity the cosmic punk scales are gonna end up tipped the wrong way.
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Who approved of this? Courtney Love? Wouldn't be surprised. Even sadder, they will sell. When do the GG Allin loafers come out?
There's plenty of great underground punk in the Chi scene, you're just not looking in the right place for it. Try going to chicagopunkpix.com for current show listings and photos of the shows. Seek and ye shall find-- great chicago punk bands. Check out Chronic Seizure and No Slogan at the Beat Kitchen tonight to get you started.
