Fantastic Blognanza!

I have to assume that most indie t-shirt uh-connoisseurs find corporate tees rather irksome. Despite the fact that shoving money down the voracious gullets of big business is America’s pastime—or, more likely, because of this—it’s difficult to imagine, say, a Threadhead or Hü-man shelling cash for one of these.

I wonder, though. Does the same rule apply if the corporations in question are fictional?

Cyberdyne at Last Exit to Nowhere: £17.50

To be honest, this is the kind of shirt I’d like to see sold outside T2 3-D—understated yet understandable, unlike those grimacing metal skulls engulfed in walls of flame (which, while hardcore in theory, lose some punch when offered in youth sizes).¹ Now, if biomimetic organisms with Austrian accents don’t float your boat, there’s always interplanetary real estate:

Weyland-Yutani Corp. at Last Exit to Nowhere: £17.50

Last Exit to Nowhere doesn’t limit itself to the corporate sphere as imagined by cinema, of course, although those tees do outnumber the rest. The question nagging my mind, though, is whether fawning over companies that don’t exist is any more justifiable than fawning over those that do. My initial reaction is “No, it is a cool shirt, shut up you are over-thinking this,” but … I dunno. I dunno, man!

In any case, I’m sure Last Exit to Nowhere would appreciate your patronage. You can at least take pride in the fact that your money is supporting a proud t-shirt vendor as opposed to one of innumerable marketing divisions of News Corp.

Link: [Last Exit to Nowhere]
Expensiveness: £17.50
[via Militant Geek Custom Shirts]

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¹Incidentally, those of you interested in reading a critique of Disneyland’s affinity for the hard sell—and how it wasn’t always like this—click here.