How money hungry would you have to be to do this to your dead spouse?

[Maddy McCall]

I guess Courtney Love needs a new Gucci bag. :eyes: She's sold rights to use Kurt Cobain's image in a new Doc Marten's campaign, which also features other dead rockers like:

Joey Ramone:



Sid Vicious:



And Joe Strummer:



(Can't find a smiley to appropriately convey my sentiments about this. I guess this one :eyes: will do.)

[Writer]

1. Here's my smiley...

:thumbsdown:

That's in absolute bad taste.

[DS1]

2. Looks like Doc Marten's finally kicked the shark

Even the poseurs wouldn't fall for that.

[unpossibles]

18. I thought they had a while ago

when their shoes started getting crappier and falling apart.

[DS1]

19. Oh, I don't doubt that

I've never cared for them. I'm sure they were good back "in the day" but fell to corporate greed in the 90s just like every other company in the Western Hemisphere.

[unpossibles]

22. when I liked them more, I could not afford them

and always found it kind of ironic that expensive boots were "punk uniform" so to speak. I usually bought my boots at Sears or Army Surplus. But I do have friends who wore them for years, and the quality definitely went down a few years ago. I would assume from outsourcing, which is also ironic considering the pro-labor stance of most of their target audience, but is a guess.

[no name no slogan]

3. Funny thing is, I don't think ANY of those guys even wore Docs

In all the pics of Sid and Joey I've seen, they've worn Converse All-Stars (same with Kurt, too, for that matter). Joe I'm not so sure about, but my guess would be brothel creepers or some such thing, as he had quite a knack for the rockabilly thing (used to dress a bit like Elvis in the 101ers, his pre-Clash band).

Either way, the campaign sucks. And is bordering on tasteless.

[BurtWorm]

28. Converse All-Stars!

I couldn't remember what the hell brand that was. Thanks!

:toast:

[no name no slogan]

30. No prob. I was just wearing mine yesterday

A pair of black, slightly faded and tattered pair of hi-top All-Stars, much like the ones said punk rockers wore back in the day.

/ In the interest of full disclosure, I have also owned several pairs of Docs over the years, and still have a pair of 10-eyelet boots I bought when I lived in the UK in 1991. I still wear them on occassion, but most of the time wear a pair of ankle-high "Beetle boot"-type boots these days.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

4. I'm thinking

there is a special place in hell for all those involved in this exercise in bad taste.

[Joe Fields]

5. Courtney ceased to surprise me years ago.

Crass, crude, no talent, headline grabbing, self-destructive, media whore.

And those are her good points....:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

6. I usually don't crab about it when bands sell out to commercials...

...but when they're appropriated into "endorsing" something after they fucking DIE, that's mighty irritating. :nuke:

This could only have been worse if it were Ian Curtis' feet dangling inches from the floor, clad in photoshopped-on Docs. :eyes:

[Susang]

8. I actually think it's kinda funny

But, I have notoriously bad taste. I'm a rabid follower of the John Water's Church of Filth. There's no bad taste, only bad people. }(

[RetroLounge]

9. "inches from the floor, clad in photoshopped-on Docs"

:spray:

RL

[xmas74]

24. Now there's a picture.

Stop now. I'm afraid some idiot will read this and, after googling who Ian Curtis is, will think it sounds like a great idea.

[no name no slogan]

29. ooooo errrrr!

Even better considering the Curtis biopic "Control" just got released at Cannes, and it was the 27th anniversary of his death a week ago....

Or, in the words of Barney Sumner at one of the first New Order gigs (when they were still a trio), after he was asked where his band's singer was:

"Eh, he's hanging around in the kitchen somewhere"

(As recounted in the book "An Ideal for Living")

[slj0101]

7. Considering Kurt would be more inclined to wear thrift store sneaks,

I think that's a pretty stupid ad campaign.

[philosophie_en_rose]

10. Um. . .

those ads don't make me want to buy shoes.

they're very creepy.

[mzteris]

11. Buy our shoes and DIE!

yeah - great advertising.

[Debi]

13. Wouldn't it be die, THEN buy our shoes? n/t

[RedStateShame]

12. Gucci bag? Courtney's not buying a Gucci bag with that money...

...unless "Gucci bag" is a new slang term for smack. As for the rest, ugh, wasn't it Strummer that sang the line turning rebellion into money in "White Man in Hammersmith Palais?" How disgustingly true.

[Sequoia]

14. I thought people in heaven wore sandles or went barefootin'

Must be the toxic clouds. And sheets, who the heck wants to wear sheets unless you're a Roman from the way back when days?

[Danger Mouse]

15. Hey, you forgot

:puke:
an appropriate reaction to this bullshit. Why the do advertisers feel such an urge to resurrect the dead to endorse their products? Can't find anyone living to peddle your garbage?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

16. probably the target consumers/idiots

have no idea what any of these people stood for and are now just cool dead guys floating on clouds wearing cool shoes. It's bullshit alright though.

[wildhorses]

17. hey dudes!!

get offa my cloud!!!

:wtf:

[DS1]

20. hey dude

Jagger is still alive :D

[wildhorses]

26. well ---

i got nuttin'

:P

[Roon]

21. Damn! Sid sure was a hottie!

What a waste.

[mitchum]

23. Hey, a girl's gotta eat...and junk and sycophants don't grow on trees

What a horrible ad campaign

[xmas74]

25. I never could afford Docs.

I bought mine from the local Army Surplus, run by a Vietnam vet w/ an extreme case of PTSD. He gave them to me and then asked me if it was "payment enough, Mai?"

Damn, I was too stupid to understand what he was talking about.


Anyway, this idea sucks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. And let's not forget that bitch- Mrs. Vicious!

Who could have known she'd be so cruel?

[Javaman]

31. I didn't think people still wore them...

besides Joey wore converse all-stars, anyway.

[Left Is Write]

32. I wonder if any of them are pissed off.

They should be.

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35. Why? So you can continue your high-powered, jetset life?!

I'm onto you, grovelbot! I've got the photos to prove it!!

[SteppingRazor]

34. It's particularly sad that they used these four rock stars, given that each of them...

was memorably anti-advertising, anti-commercialization.

To quote Strummer:

In the gleaming corridors of the 51st floor
The money can be made if you really want some more
Executive decision-a clinical precision
Jumping from the windows-filled with indecision

I get good advice from the advertising world
Treat me nice says the party girl
Koke adds life where there isnt any
So freeze, man, freeze