these nine inch nails shirts are so bad they deserve their own fleeting thread

I needed anime to post.

https://twitter.com/nineinchnails/status/1308121175801774080

https://twitter.com/nineinchnails/status/1308121177156587521

Poorochondriac

I love to buy novelty t-shirts about living through culture-wide trauma

Especially when they profit a past-their-prime already-rich cishet white industrial musician

Magell

Those shirts are so bad I might have to stop liking NiN

Tallahasseeriel

Oh

Those are some shirts

Tonkka

Oh good, our savior is here with new products.

Solar

That bottom left one, if it didn't have the text, I'd wear to an Industrial night maybe

tynic

I don't see the issue, this is quintessential NiN

TheySlashThem

pretty hate machine was my shit in middle school

DJ Eebs

In the animorphs books Cassie buys an NIN album and tells her parents it stands for Nice is Neat

Tallahasseeriel

It seems like it would be hard to do anything if you grew your nails that long

Reynolds

Nice is neat.

Linespider5

These shirts should be cooler than this.

Also, why now? Why not in like April when the new Ghosts albums dropped. They would be less bad if they were the same but they didn’t come out like 5 months too late.

Peen

I would venture to say that they would have been as bad in April as they are now, because they are bad.

PiptheFair

I hate trent reznor for no particular reason

he seems like the kinda insufferable arthouse dude everybody knows and somehow can't escape from in public

tynic

Obligatory achewood arc

Raijin Quickfoot

My shirt with the cast of 90210 is way better than these

Straightzi

On the upside, there are a bunch of heartbroken conservatives who have just learned that Trent Reznor, the man who made an entire album about how much he hates George W Bush, has different political views than they do.

Raijin Quickfoot

Straightzi wrote: »

On the upside, there are a bunch of heartbroken conservatives who have just learned that Trent Reznor, the man who made an entire album about how much he hates George W Bush, has different political views than they do.

They definitely still share their views on women though.

Odin

Straightzi wrote: »

On the upside, there are a bunch of heartbroken conservatives who have just learned that Trent Reznor, the man who made an entire album about how much he hates George W Bush, has different political views than they do.

A couple years ago, Ted Cruz tried to get on the guest list for a NIN show in Texas and was told to fuck off

Linespider5

Was there touring NIN planned on doing this year that they’re hoping to offset that lack of income through topical merch?

I mean, the Quake 1 soundtrack just came out on vinyl, with names for the songs no less, so that’s cool.

I also wonder about that analog soundtrack they’re supposedly making for Fincher’s Netflix movie project.

ChicoBlue

Does this mean I have to stop wearing my You Are the Perfect Doug shirt that has a picture of Doug Funnie dressed as Trent Reznor on it?

Tallahasseeriel

I don't know any nine inch nails tracks anyway

Raijin Quickfoot

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Does this mean I have to stop wearing my You Are the Perfect Doug shirt that has a picture of Doug Funnie dressed as Trent Reznor on it?

You should never stop wearing that shirt.

Xaquin

Uriel wrote: »

I don't know any nine inch nails tracks anyway

whaaaaaaaaat!?

Head Like A Hole, Perfect Drug, and Closer were massive radio hits

also I'm Afraid of Americans with David Bowie

Tallahasseeriel

Xaquin wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

I don't know any nine inch nails tracks anyway

whaaaaaaaaat!?

Head Like A Hole, Perfect Drug, and Closer were massive radio hits

also I'm Afraid of Americans with David Bowie

I didn't get my license until relatively recently and my mom only listened to the classic rock station and I had no friends so most radio hits from this era elude me

tynic

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Does this mean I have to stop wearing my You Are the Perfect Doug shirt that has a picture of Doug Funnie dressed as Trent Reznor on it?

this better be a thing that really exists, chico

or else

Xaquin

Uriel wrote: »

Xaquin wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

I don't know any nine inch nails tracks anyway

whaaaaaaaaat!?

Head Like A Hole, Perfect Drug, and Closer were massive radio hits

also I'm Afraid of Americans with David Bowie

I didn't get my license until relatively recently and my mom only listened to the classic rock station and I had no friends so most radio hits from this era elude me

fair enough!

turtleant

Theres lots of bands I'm sure I heard at some point but if you asked me to put a name to their songs I wouldn't know a single one

NiN is definitely on that list

Fawst

Today is the 21st anniversary of the release of The Fragile. I imagine that has something to do with it.

I dig the Broken one.

Ringo

Uriel wrote: »

Xaquin wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

I don't know any nine inch nails tracks anyway

whaaaaaaaaat!?

Head Like A Hole, Perfect Drug, and Closer were massive radio hits

also I'm Afraid of Americans with David Bowie

I didn't get my license until relatively recently and my mom only listened to the classic rock station and I had no friends so most radio hits from this era elude me

Good news, these songs are "classic rock" now!

Well... news, anyway

mxmarks

Linespider5 wrote: »

Was there touring NIN planned on doing this year that they’re hoping to offset that lack of income through topical merch?

I mean, the Quake 1 soundtrack just came out on vinyl, with names for the songs no less, so that’s cool.

I also wonder about that analog soundtrack they’re supposedly making for Fincher’s Netflix movie project.

That's actually it. Back in like June they announced there was a Sept-Nov tour all booked and sold the tour merch from it they had already printed.

I bet this is part of that.

I saw them last year and The Perfect Drug live was probably one of the best songs I've ever seen live by anyone.

#pipe

My favourite thing NIN ever did was that ARG game for Year Zero.

But they just paid some marketing firm to come up with it and execute it so it's not really anything they did anyway.

I needed anime to post.

ChicoBlue wrote: »

Does this mean I have to stop wearing my You Are the Perfect Doug shirt that has a picture of Doug Funnie dressed as Trent Reznor on it?

Make the shirt, coward.

Brovid Hasselsmof

The Fragile is one of my all time favourite albums. But those are some bad shits for sure.

Gvzbgul

They're not... the worst?

Mortal Sky

It's funny, some of the best band shirts I've ever seen were also NIN shirts, because their main set of logos/icons usually lends itself to the rare kind of graphic tees I'd actually buy

I guess when you have like thirty years of throwing stuff at the wall, and you're also an increasingly old and inevitably out of touch Gen Xer, something is just gonna inevitably fail to stick, and this is it in such a hilarious way

Fishman

My favourite Trent Reznor thing is when he saw how much NIN albums sold for in stores on an Aus/NZ tour and asked his label why they were so expensive and was told "because that's what your fans will pay" so he stood up in concert and told all his fans to steal his latest record rather than pay for it.

Mortal Sky

Huh, that'd explain why so many of his albums released since have been free as well then

Fencingsax

DJ Eebs wrote: »

In the animorphs books Cassie buys an NIN album and tells her parents it stands for Nice is Neat

Do you have to pay for product placement in books?

Typhoid Manny

Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »

The Fragile is one of my all time favourite albums. But those are some bad shits for sure.

yyyyeah

i probably won't ever not love nine inch nails, but you couldn't make rich white dude takes under laboratory conditions that would be purer than those fuckin' shirts

Platy

I still can't forgive Trent Reznor for his buyout of the Tendo corporation