Hasta La Ideas

Speaking of no good punk friends as we were in the previous post (and on a regular basis now that we’ve both turned 80 years old), this writer ends his day on an entertaining, but head slappingly frustrating story coming from the music world. The mall-based outlet frequently visited by teenagers (who are even worse than “no good punks”), Forever 21, has gotten into some hot water for blatantly stealing the logo of the band Minor Threat and throwing it onto a truly horrible nostalgic-for-the-80s t-shirt. Once the shirt was spotted and made the rounds a bit online, members of the iconic band caught wind of it and shut the whole thieving operation down, forcing Forever 21 to remove the shirt from the racks. Certainly always bad to steal, which we believe is without question and we’re happy to see wound up being properly rectified, strange as it is to consider that a store that large would try something so obvious, but it does also raise other serious pieces of curiosity: 1) how many people who shop at Forever 21 know who/what Minor Threat is? 2) Were any of these customers even alive at the time the band was playing (we’re guessing not, since being 21 would have seen their arrival some five years after the group broke up). And 2b) Were any of them alive to even remember the 1980s? We’re confused. And feeling quite old.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media