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Old 01-05-2010, 12:46 PM   #51 (permalink)
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When I was, um, mall age I used to see the Zeppelin angel, Eddie, and Motorhead thing everywhere - but this was not so much a hipster thing as there were just lots of metalheads everywhere and they were into those bands. God, I saw the Zeppelin thing on probably hundreds of jackets, t-shirts and bumper stickers when I was a kid. In fact it was years before I knew Zeppelin and Motorhead were not American.
You're absolutely right...back then people actually listened to the bands they promoted on their t-shirts & jackets. They/we weren't concerned with trying to be ironic or hip like today's kids.
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