Before The Bygone Bureau, visionaries Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens staked a claim as t-shirt retailers targeting indie rock hipsters. Due to a series of production issues, conflicts of interest, America’s obesity problem, and robotic monotones, the site never took off. The Bureau’s editors present their line of shirts, sadly never put into production.
Now, Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens think their indie rock t-shirts would never sell. I beg to differ, because I think they’re forgetting perhaps the single greatest weakness of hipsters: irony. This level of irony is what hipsters thrive off of.
I’m absolutely positive that this t-shirt, and many of the others featured on The Bygone Bureau, would be a smash hit. Kevin and Nick, if you’re reading: do you want to start a t-shirt company with me? I’ve already done it once. And I’m completely serious about this. I wouldn’t share it with the entire internet if I weren’t serious.
Some of you may be deeply familiar with Flight of the Conchords. Perhaps you are a die-hard fan, and watch their show on HBO with religious zeal. Or perhaps you never really liked them, are sick of all the fuss about them, and wish they’d just push off. In either of these cases, you are not my target audience with this post. Sorry! You can’t win ‘em all, I guess?
However, if you have no idea what I’m talking about, or if the phrase “Flight of the Conchords” merely tickles the back of your mind like the delicate shadow of a long-forgotten dream1, then you’re in luck! See, they’re this comedy folk-rock band New Zealand, and their songs are pretty funny. Here’s one of my favorites, entitled “The Humans Are Dead”:
1 Or if you saw a preview for it once on television but didn’t give it much thought.2 2 Jeez, I really need to cool it with all the footnotes in my posts.
You might remember me writing about a few upcoming sci-fi movie-inspired t-shirts from Kindred (1, 2). Well, the time has come: they will be releasing new movie-themed shirts every week until they run out of things to release, starting… NOW! It’s worth checking them out a) just to see if you know the movies that Todd’s designs refer to and b) because they look really cool. Here’s the schedule (with pictures that you can click on to be taken to the appropriate page on the Kindred website!):
June 29th
July 6th
July 13th
July 20th
July 27th
August 3rd
August 10th
That’s all for now! There are some t-shirts that you can see on the Kindred site that aren’t a part of this list; as soon as I find out their planned release dates, I’ll update it!
‘Cause this one’s got a FADER/Southern Comfort limited edition 7″, featuring The Black Lips and Yacht. That is one beast of a prize package.
And all you’ve got to do to win it all is leave a comment on this post by July 1st (as usual, be sure to include your email address in the appropriate field so you can be contacted if you win!). Your comment could be about anything. Just leave it, and you’ll be entered to win; you get extra brownie points if your comment makes me smile, though. It’s as simple as that! Only one entry per person; don’t make me check the IP addresses of all the entries…
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