Kurt Cobain Black Chuck Taylor All Star Converse
Posted by admin on August 27th, 2008 filed in News
He haunted Seattle’s music scene, withdrawing into its grit and grime. He thought some of it made sense, but most of it didn’t. So he turned to the only thing he knew for sure: his music. Soon it became clear; the inspired songwriter with scruffy hair and stormy eyes had taken the underground grunge movement mainstream. Converse invokes Kurt Cobains spirit with these Kurt Cobain Black Chuck Taylore All Star Converse. These shoes feature a canvas upper with lyrics from “Come As You Are” and “Dumb”. Available now at Converse.com
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I’ll just copy and paste my old comment since it’s still relevant to this crap.
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This is the same marketing bullshit that Kurt Cobain was always saying he was against. The only difference is, they’ve targeted HIS audience and are now feeding YOU this crap and he’s not alive to have a say in it (unfortunately). I highly doubt Kurt would be happy about this as he was obviously extremely private. What’s also lame is the fact that people are going to be paying top dollar for a pair of artificially worn out shoes with his signature stamped/embroidered on them. Why?
If this is something he would’ve wanted to be done, he would’ve done it while he was alive or would’ve have pitched the idea. If he would’ve wanted people wearing his most personal thoughts on their fucking feet he would’ve published his journals on his own and been cool with this.
You’ve still got the music, the sound, the voice, the lyrics, the artwork… isn’t that enough? Isn’t that what it’s all about? This is the kind of crap that causes people to forget what they enjoyed most about Kurt in the first place: the music.
Screw forking out your cash for these bullshit shoes and marketing schemes. Get your own pair and write your own personal thoughts on them. Do it yourself.
Listen to the music and don’t buy into this disrespectful garbage. Nirvana got big because of their music. People felt a connection to Kurt because of the music and lyrics. Don’t let that die too.
These fucker’s are going to milk every last drop of the man even after his death. And of course Courtney Love is backing this shit. Your true colors and motives show even brighter with time. Money, $$$$$$$$$$$$!
So, fuck her, fuck the shoes, fuck the books, fuck the documentaries, fuck the rumors, fuck the bad imitations, fuck the boring and pretentious movies, fuck it all. Just put on the albums and remember what it really felt like, what it really meant to you. What it still means to you after all these years. That’s what it’s all about, not this ridiculous bullshit.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:07 am
I´m from Brazil and I am a Nirvana´s fan too. I hate the way that the media use the Cobain´s particular stuffs ´cause he didn´t like it. He never said that the non necessary thigs was always a big shit. So fuck the shoes, fuck all the non necessary stuff. Kurt knows that the true fans don´t need that ridiculous “bullshit”. Kurt, I´ll always love you and your songs. For http://www.kurtcobain.com : I love this web site.
Hugs and kisses from Brazil:::)))
August 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am
I wat to meet the person who wrote the 1st comment. Who´s “Atom”?
Kisses from Barzil
Ps.: I f Atom could show me his or her e-mail should be great!!!;D
September 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
hey guys I think Chuck’s name is Jaylor not Taylor
PS : my website is in french^^
September 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
what is with these shoes? it makes no sense cobain would have hated this.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Yeah I know what you mean Chucks are cool but Cortney Love is doing what she did with the mixed albums and all of his stuff, getting the money and well to be honest they dont even look like something that Cobain would even let go. No true Nirvana fan would wear them if someone does they are just posers
December 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
FUCK OFF ANNIE!AND YOU KNOW WHY?ALL OF US WHO LIKES NIRVANA AND WHO RESPECTS OUR LORD KURT ,WILL WEAR NIRVANA T-SHIRTS IN MEMORY OF THEM!IS THAT CLEAR?IF YOU DONT LIKE THAT-DISSAPEAR!
FUCK FACE
December 14th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
LONG LIVE TAYLOR CHUCK!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I think that kurt would hate this commercial company taking advantage of his image and fan base to make a profit. on the other hand it is nice for him to get some recinition but i feel that he would have prefferd people homour him in another way.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:26 am
to add to my last comment why cant everyone just buy the plain ones at target that cost way less. They were the type he actually wore and liked. This is bullshit. I was not alive until 1993 but i am as big a fan if not bigger then any and i know that Kurt would have hated his face to be used as a way of making a profit and he would have hated his most inner thoughts to put out for the entire world to see. Fuck you converse.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’m a big fan of Kurt Cobain, converse is doing great for the benefits of Kurt Cobain fanatic. just continue praise Kurt so that his memories always there, for me even Kurt Cobain not existing anymore I’m still the big fan of that guy he’s great… KURT COBAIN NEVER FAID!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
T-shirts are fine……but these shoes? They are really crossing a line. Kurt had more than enough chances to publish his PERSONAL and PRIVATE journals if he wanted the world to know his thoughts that badly. These aren’t a few misspelled quotes from his online blog or myspace page; these are deep, private thoughts from the darkest corners of Kurt’s mind. Anyone who truly respects Kurt Cobain as a musician and a person would never pay money to SELL OUT THE GREATEST MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME. And let’s face it…..the only reason Courtney Love OK’d these was so she’d have a bit more money to put towards her drug addiction.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:49 am
im only 13 but i love kurt 2 death i apoligize my generation sucks
i love u grunge
ihate rap
January 9th, 2009 at 9:50 am
and country
January 9th, 2009 at 9:52 am
fuck u courtney ihope u read this u murdering bitch
kurt loved u frances
strt a band riot the streets
grunge can come bak just believe
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I now love Kurt Cobain and I really want his converse but they don’t deliver to Canada. And Smells Like Teen Spirit is my ring tone
heyy=)
Love for Kurt Cobain <33
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I’m only 13 years old and I love Kurt. It sucks he’s not around anymore
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I hate Courtney Love she did this to Kurt!!
January 24th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Who really cares? Don’t buy them. It’s simple. yeah she’s making money off her dead husband but no one moaned when Yoko authorised the john lennon figures. what’s the difference?
The big boppers (50’s rock’n'roll legend) son is selling his own fathers old coffin for thousands. courtney is selling some shoes. c’mon lets not get carried away.
I still feel uneasy about the journals. yes I bought them but that WAS a bit dodgy.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Yes, it is true. And I think that it is unnecessary for them to totally sell him out like this because he never wanted for all of his past stuff to be up like this but they are still nice shoes. And it is totally wrong for her to make money off of Kurt.Sometimes people cross the line and Courteny Love is one of those people!It is just plain wrong!Even though Kurt Cobain may not be alive…I think he still deserves some confidential and private stuff!Like journals for instant.If you want to learn more about him…read a book on him don’t by his once private stuff. Stuff like his journals shouldn’t have been released to the public like it was.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Yeah Jess you are soooo right!! I like the shoes. But I like them because I love him, and I want everyone to know. I really don’t think there’s anything wrong with that
Soo yeah!
February 1st, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Dame fucking straight! I know I’m right unlike some people! I actually care if that bitch Courtney Love sells him out and makes money off him!(And they are some fucking nice shoes)! I totaly agree with Lauren Rae, she may not have said much,but those few words said alot
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
February 4th, 2009 at 9:17 am
well its a good idea with the lyrics but all the others, it is just wrong, would you want people going through your stuff when you are gone, i dont think so.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
True,the lyrics are a good idea but the other stuff shouldn’t be on there and no, I wouldn’t want people going through my stuff when I’m gone and that is what I am trying to say. If there is stuff that he wanted to keep personal then it should always be keep personal.
February 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
what is this fuckin advertisement,i just hate u guys,u r making money by the name of my lord,i just hate u bullshit.we only love our kurt not ur shoes mother fuckers
February 21st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Me and a bunch of Kurt Cobain lover(fans) bought Kurt a cake for his birthday with his name on it and stuff. IloveKurtCobain<3
February 26th, 2009 at 12:20 am
i really love the way he sings, he can show his emotions… we can really feel his music
March 10th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
u’ll alwys be in our hearts K.Cobain..u rock!!i can’t understand you right now but i will nchl…i love your songs it’s just awesome!!
kiss fropm Tunisia
March 12th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
hey all, can I say something to all your comments? I am probably the biggest nirvana/cobain fan (no offense to anyone) but I followed his career and life and works of art both musically and artisticly and what you have to remember is as far as the shoes and journals and everything else you all think is lame, frances is getting a cut of too which kurt would not have a fuckin problem with at all. All you people who claim to be die hard fans cant honestly tell me you dont enjoy reading his thoughts or original lyrics from his journals cuz i sure as fuck do. granted i will give you that courtney making the profit is bullshit and in a way she is selling kurt out. I look to remember kurt anyway possible he was brilliant and just what we the “chosen outcasts” needed he was our voice when nobody would listen he was there with his music when we needed him thats why he will be forever remembered as the greatest musician of all time. I sport my cobain shirts to remind people of him and because im proud and honored that i had his music and still do so if buying a pair of shoes that symbolizes kurt is wrong i dont want to be right, and that doesnt make me any less of a fan! kurt your the man wish you were still here you had so much more to do and write here we miss you!
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Listen who the fuck has the nerve to ruin Kurt Cobain!?This is exactly what he tried to prevent and perhaps one of the reasons he died. Because of this retarted marketing and making things public. Hey listen guys cool shoes but to us Nirvana fans who actually gave a shit for Kurt, these shoes are bullshit.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Who knows how Kurt would have felt about this. For one, he always did rail against commercialism and mtv, but at the same time he would call and complain that his videos weren’t played enough. If he were alive today he would probably condemn this bullshit (because that’s what it is) but at the same time he might have secretly encouraged for the simple reason it would help support his family. (After realizing that he singlehandedly saved converse from bankruptcy he wrote “endorsement” on his sneakers.) Honestly I don’t think he would take this kind of thing as seriously as you people are, as he openly mocked bands like x-treme for taking these things to seriously. Honestly I think he would have spent more time giving death threats to the people who seem to still attack his family. Fuck it, who cares. I know I like him for his music and the creative artwork he did and I won’t be spending my hard earned cash for this shit. To quote Kurt when he was talking about x-treme “They surround themselves these fucking dick-head commercial rock&roll guys who run ahead of them and tell the people who are greeting them ‘no video here’s what we need we want a path straight to the van, we don’t want any pictures taken’, and it’s like SO WHAT”. Fuck it, none of this matters anyway, so why not just laugh about it and stop taking it so goddamn seriously;)
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
why in the hell are
people even thinking of how he would have thought about a pair of stupid shoes. Its all a load of bullshit;) meow meow kitty power many paws and all that
March 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Kitty know all about the shisnt man.
Fuck converse!
April 7th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Yep…and fuck you Beanie
April 10th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Oh really.:O. I like that Jesus.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Thanks Beanie. I love you.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Sorry hope you kidding. I only see as a friend. Or acquaintance because i do not know you! Take care luv hearin from you Jesus.
May 21st, 2009 at 2:06 am
ive been a huge nirvana fan since i was 15 (im 32 now) and own a pair of these shoes. theyre just shoes, and.. i dont think kurt would give a shit what kind of shoes i wear, honestly. (mine were a present, i have no idea what these cost) ive been wearing all stars for 15 years now.
May 25th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Does anyone know of any store that still sell the shoes? or where we can find them?
May 27th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
First no one can really say how kurt would feel about the shoes unless u knew him personally im pretty sure no one so far including myself has even met him and if u did meet him that doesnt mean u know him no one really knows him except for the ones who were close to him and they are just shoes i dont get why people are freaking out like OMG THE SHOES THE SHOES THEY TOTALLY SELL OUT KURT the shoes have private thoughts but so do his song because the songs have his personal thoughts in them should we stop listen to them i think not so to everyone freaking out about THE SHOES you really need to relax
May 28th, 2009 at 5:51 am
I dont really know what to say cuz i love nirvana and i love kurt more than words. But i would probably buy these shoes because i love him so much, they look cool, i hate that money is being made off Kurt in the wrong way, and if Courtney didnt kill him then fair enuf let her make money off him fs she has his kid who she has to support by herself c’mon. Although she sold to much of his stuff. It wud be so Kurt to not have died but escaped! he cud be somewhere right now eating grapes, he liked grapes
May 28th, 2009 at 6:03 am
‘All Apoligies’ ur pretty much right dude. Altho why the fuck dus everyone hate courtney when they have no proof that she killed kurt… i dont think shes smarter than the police do u guys? they wuda gat in the super detectives or sumthing.
If Kurt was still alive, his fame wud be scarey… more music? more extreme awesomeness? I think he wud have retired if not killed himself, he wouldnt want to become more famous than he was becoming, everyone knows he started to hate it, he apreciated us as fans though. He would have went solo, apearing every now and again with Foo Fighters ect maybe… thatd be awesome. P.S dus anyone think Frances is hot? lol
June 4th, 2009 at 5:59 am
METALLICA RULES!
… SO DOES NIRVANA!!
I think kurt probably wouldnt agree to these shoes being made,i should be doing my courswork, cuz he was such a rebelious guy and so anti-establishment but im pretty sure we’ll see these in the stores anyway no matter whose opinion. theres money to be made, this well definitely be sold. theres a huge market. its inevitable…
June 4th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Well duh. If im ever sitting right beside u in sum sorta tech im gona slap u with a wet fish
June 4th, 2009 at 6:09 am
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June 4th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Aye ur mais dais crisp sandwich…. is out. of. date!
June 14th, 2009 at 10:08 am
i cant non stop loving u……… kurt
July 19th, 2009 at 12:45 am
lots of love from Turkey We love you “Kurt”
October 19th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
amo a kurt lejos lo mas bello k a existido aparte es un gran musico, en resumen es perfecto
lo amoooooooo muxo
October 20th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
- copy / paste from a same comment about the same shit -
This site supposed to be a site which RESPECTS Cobain’s memory, but let there be rock, let there be ca$h, let’s sell and sell and sell ’till his corpse is drained! How come a tribute site supports this kind of exploitation? These shoes are another PATHETIC example of cashing-in a dead’s man life, work and memory. This attitude is worse than the worst! It’s so disgusting I wanna throw up! Everything that Kurt HATED are now on sale by mega companies and bearing his name as a trademark. What the fuck man? What the fuck? The UTTER PATHETIC SHITTY ATTITUDE towards any person. Exploiting EVERYTHING for cash and in the same time pretending to pay respect to Kurt. Wake up people and DON’T be a part in this disgrace, they want your money ONLY, they are so glad Cobain’s dead so they can sell him more and more! WAKE THE FUCK UP people and have the DIGNITY not to be part in it or simply FUCK OFF, you are one of “them”!
ps: I was never a Nirvana fan, I just happent to repsect Cobain.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I just finished Heavier than Heaven. The story of Kurt Cobain. Highly recomended
December 28th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I wouldn’t buy these shoes, you could just buy a regular pair of converse and deck them out the way you want. That’s what I do. I have a pair of converse that has Nirvana and Kurt stuff written all over them. Don’t waste your money supporting something that Kurt would be against.
January 24th, 2010 at 3:12 am
que tiempos.Lo que me hizo sentir nirvana no lo logro otro grupo jamas.Lo del diario lo veo muy mal,una bajeza.Me encanta cuando veo a algunos chavales lleven algo referente a nirvana y demuestra que se recuerda a kurt y a nirvana.Me gusta que nueva generaciones sientan ,mas o menos,las letras y el sonido retorcido de su musica melodica destrozando guitarras .Jamas olvidare a kurt y sus letras que me hicieron llorar ,reir y volverme loco de euforia.Gracias nirvana,gracias kurt
February 4th, 2010 at 9:29 am
DUDE,THERE FUCKING SHOES KURT WAS A GOD JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY WANTS TO WERE SOME SHOES DOESNT MEAN THERE NOT PUNK ROCK SO FUCK U ATOM
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:30 pm
LISTEN ATOM. stop saying bullshit. you dont know fucking shit stop wasting your mother fucking time. kay??!
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:36 am
Yes all of us are fucking sad that They still using Him to earn some shit. But what the fuck can we do about it? The best we can do is not buy them, that’s it! He loved scribbling stuff on his shoes and so you can scribble your own shit on your own shoes…my head aches as these fucked up ideas never die… have been a big fan of him ever since I heard him back in 1998. Love him even more as days go by…Leave him alone, he must be happy wherever he is…don’t make him pick up his telescope and look down on us…let him be…