reading through this thread is a trip. its a 20 year old thread made about 10 years after cobain died. i think nirvana was and still is a very culturally important band. i was in dublin last summer and was shocked at the amount of nirvana t-shirts i saw. no exaggeration...at least ten people a day wearing one, most of them too young to have even been alive when nirvana was active. he is kind of like hendrix or bob marley in that respect. lots of 90's kids were wearing their shirts even though they might not have even been alive when they were active.
Nirvana is definitely influential and legendary, but the reason you're seeing the band shirts is because Nirvana is from the 1900s and retro. I live near a HS and the kids all wear band shirts from that era.
If any "modern" act can be at all compared to Mozart both musically and for the cultural influence, it can only be The Beatles. If you buy into that comparison, we're still waiting on the big one--the modern Beethoven.
I don't let my kids wear band shirts unless they actually listen to the band. They were wearing their System of a Down shirts a few weeks ago and some kid at Lowe's tried to call them out by asking what their favorite song was. They answered with some obscure deep cut that the kid had never heard of (not Ariels, Chop Suey or Toxicity) and totally put him in his place. Proud Dad moment...
i had a really dope bob marley tshirt i bought at hot topic. one day some breh was like you like ziggy? and i laughed not knowing what that was a reference to. then later i found out my shirt was ziggy not bob. @Ziggy
ONE time I bought a Todd Snyder X Champions shirt to workout in because I saw it at Nordstrom Rack for like $4.99 (normally $70+). I'd wear it to the gym and random dudes were like, DOPE shirt. Dudes that would never talk to me normally. Thought I had some street cred or something. Turned out it was a gay pride shirt and now I don't wear it. Not because I'm not coo with the gays, but because I don't want THAT smoke. I want the SMOKE Bob Marley be having.
Similarly, I had a Yaga shirt that I thought was cool, then my cousin told me it spelled a gay backwards. Never wore it again.
