Usually this type of thing is up for debate, but with all certainty and a level of objectiveness unattained in previous commentary on merchandise, I can say this is the laziest and worst shirt I have ever seen. Even by Atilla frontman Chris Fronzak standards this is just stupid… and Attila have made some really dumb shirts.
Prepare to lose at least a few brain cells, folks!
Here are my problems with this shirt:
- What occasion would I possibly have to wear this shirt outside my house?
- Who is this marketed to? Kids that think this is edgy's parents likely won't allow them to buy it and kids who are smart enough to know better… well, they just know better. So I guess the target audience is "complete dipshits." Reasonable!
- If I walked outside my house with a Bathory shirt with a pentagram on it, or an old-school sacrilegious Cradle of Filth shirt, or whatever, I'd say at the very least 10-percent of people I encounter would recognize that it's probably a band shirt. With this, 100-percent of everyone just thinks you're some "2edgy4u" moron with a shirt that says "fuck" on it. I'm not saying I'd wear any of those, I'm just saying at least with the former two, people might pick up on the fact that it's from something.
- This is so uncreative it hurts. Though it's coming from Attila, so I really shouldn't be that surprised.
The worst part is that some kids will shell out $18 for this and Fronzak will come out on top. Business-wise, the guy is selling "edgy" merchandise to a fan base that eats that type of thing up, so it makes perfect sense for him. Why wouldn't he just slap together the shittiest shirt he can possibly conjure up and make a profit?
It doesn't make it any less mind-numbingly stupid as a shirt, but as a business move, sure. Why not.
[via The PRP]
