$40 for a virtually plain white tee? Imma think Imma passā¦
For that price it must do more than just be a shirt. Maybe it also makes coffee?
I canāt tell if the post about this tee is serious or some sort of snark. I think cory genuinely likes this plain-yet-expensive shirt. Hey while youāre at it you should by Kanyeās plain white hip-hop shirt
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/style-kanye-west-apc-120-plain-white-hiphop-t-shirt-sells-out.html
Iām not usually a āif itās art that I could create itās not artā kind of person, but thatās a āso you bought it at Target?ā t-shirt.
Hatersā¦ You clearly havenāt read the product features on kottke:
The shirt is made of fabric, has sleeves, and features a hole for your head. Itās everything you need in a shirt.
But seriouslyā¦ he does explain why itās that expensive. Itās from a site [ http://printallover.me/ ] that allows you to print on every part of a garment (usually sites that do custom printing donāt allow you to print near the seams):
Due to the unique printing process, the shirts are custom-dyed, cut & sewn to order
Is it too much for a shirt? Yep. Have you spent $38 bucks in a stupider way in the past? Yep.
Iām like, yo, thatās forty dollars for a T-shirt
Thatās pretty cool. Did he get a discount for only actually printing on the bottom 20%?
Ha. Never really thought about the fact that Mack Lemore is all about teh anti-consumerism and teh anti-homophobia whilst the clip tells you you should give a fuck about stupid fashion and suggests fur is something you should want to wear.
What do I know about wearing a wolf on my nogginā? I know youāre a fucking ignorant ass of a fashion victim if you want to wear a fur anything on your anything.
At least with this shirt, thereās no confusion over whether or not you should tuck it inā¦
You may have misunderstood that bit. Itās about how $50 branded T-shirts are sucker ripoffs. Heās not in favor.
Regarding fur, well, the songās about castoffs from second-hand stores. Thatās not really supporting the fur industry. Also, Iām not clear on why fur is monstrous while leather jackets, gloves, boots, etc. remain cool. Iāll give you a pass on that one if youāre actually vegetarian, though.
Iāve got a load of possum fur/merino wool blend alpine gear which is made in NZ from both sheep and recycled invasive pests. So while I might be a fucking ignorant ass of a fashion victim at least Iāll be a toasty-warm one when Iām a couple of thousand meters up a mountain. 
Iām aware of the songās message and that particular line, I just never really noticed how not-cool the overall message really is. Itās saying ābe a fashion victim, but donāt be a victim of capitalist consumerismā which isnāt really that much of a better message IMO.
Thatās not really supporting the fur industry.
Wearing a fur pimp-coat as if itās something to be desired isnāt supporting the fur industry? The lyrics also include this:
Whatcha know about rocking a wolf on ya nogginā? Whatcha know about wearinā a fur fox skin?
I donāt think leather jackets, gloves or boots are cool either. Especially leather jackets. I own one pair of dress shoes that are leather and I own one leather belt that I received as a gift. I also donāt have as much of a problem with leather as I do fur because while humans continue to eat beef as much as we do, thereās already a massive oversupply of the stuff. That needs a use.
Iām not a vegetarian, though I have a rule to follow: if you bought it or ordered it you better fucking eat it all. Something died to be on your plate.
If youāre wearing a wolf as a hat or a fox fur pimp coat you are, unequivocally, a fucking ignorant ass of a fashion victim.
Got a rabbit-fur Å ubara I traded for a Saints cap in a bar in the arse-end of Yugoslavia. Does that count?
Not really my first choice for mountain climbing though and itās a bit warm for the balmy QLD weather.
Iām not clear on how āwear things you think are cool, not things corporations tell you are coolā is a bad message.
And if you think Macklemore actually owns a wolfskin hat, you may be taking the song too seriously. It is a comedy piece, after all. Heās going out of his way to list the most ridiculous clothes he can imagine.
So why do you have a problem with fur, then? What Iām getting is that beef is totally fine and delicious, leather is uncool but acceptable because weāve gotta do something with the leftover beef wrappers, and fur is a monstrous abomination because itās a waste of perfectly good fox meat?
Or are you particularly thinking of fur made from endangered species? Iāll agree 100% on that, but IIRC the vast majority of modern fur garments are made from farm-grown animals. The rabbits and other herbivores probably go to meat as well. Carnivore meat is generally unpalatable to humans, though.
Because thatās not the message. Heās explicitly telling you you can get your ātagsā by recycling. Itās still telling the audience we should want these things.
It is a comedy piece, after all.
No itās not, itās a novelty-ish song thatās part of his serious hiphop album.
Heās going out of his way to list the most ridiculous clothes he can imagine.
Except fur coats are a recognised symbol of affluence, and hiphop is sometimes about showing off yourself and your success.
Youāre getting my take mostly right. If we convince people to not eat as much meat as we do, we might not have so many cow wrappers. Until the first problem, which is driving the demand for there to be as many cows as there are, is fixed Iām not so worried about leather. I have ethical issues with killing anything in order to eat and I would definitely eat lab vat meat if it were commercially available as an alternative. I think killing an animal to eat them is more acceptable than killing an animal to wear them. In all but a very slight number of use cases (such as alpine survival) synthetics, wool or plant-based fabrics are usually a better performing choice anyway.
Farming animals so you can one day wear their beauty is fucking disgraceful in my opinion. In most cases the meat is fed to the other animals, so little goes to waste, but it still doesnāt change the statement of the act: This animal is beautiful and I will demonstrate its beauty by killing it and wearing it. Thatās the mark of a fucking shit person and Iāll tell that to their faces.
You got the way better deal on that trade!
I dunnoā¦ I donāt feel as bad about fur things made from introduced species that are otherwise decimating native species, since from a conservation point of view you are doing a good thing, but Iād not wear it and Iād never shoot it myself.
Yesā¦ you donāt need fur anything in QLD 
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