Yves Saint Laurent Is Selling Four Thousand Dollar Nirvana T Shirts

Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Noted purveyor of astronomically-priced merchandise Yves Saint Laurent has a new “Vintage” line, which includes some of the dearest Nirvana gear on the planet – and it will come as no surprise that a lot of fans are not here for it.

YSL is flogging various Kurt Cobain-inspired t shirts and asking anywhere from $990 to $4,450. Hey, I thought I did a typo there, but nope. The most expensive swag is a faded black tee bearing the Incesticide album artwork. The clothing isn’t manufactured by YSL – each piece is actual Nirvana merchandise, purchased by the company for resale.

As you might expect, a lot of the band’s fans are mad peeved – with many pointing out what they see as hypocrisy:

• “Kurt was mad at 50$ (sic) ticket prices. He would be even more angry at this.”
• “KC currently spinning in his grave at 45RPM.”
• “YSL selling Nirvana shirt for $4,000? This is the opposite of what Kurt would have wanted. He thought $20 was too much for a concert ticket.”
• “4K for YSL Nirvana shirt? That shirt better come with a signed note from Kurt Cobain RIP with today’s date, idc.”

I wonder what they thought of the auction sales of Kurt’s grungy cardigan.

Love, Dr. Scott James