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Gear Nirvana Fans Might Not Dismiss As Fecal Matter

6/26/07, 6:02 pm EST


As we noted last week, Courtney Love has launched a line of lunch boxes, action figures and — brace yourself — flask keychains featuring the likeness of her late husband, Kurt Cobain.
Since this initial batch of products is less than impressive (and if you’re going to exploit the image of one of the most beloved and tortured rock stars of all time, you’ve got to come out swinging), we called in marketing director Bill Coleman, whose ANEW Marketing Group reps Heineken. With his expertise, we were able to come up with some gear Nirvana diehards might not roll their eyes at:

  • The Cobain Candle: “It could come with a story, [explaining] you can light it on the anniversary of his death. Instead of just a candle on your mantelpiece, it opens up a discussion and really gives you an experience.”
  • Collectible Kurt Guitar: “Something that’s a collectible always makes sense. A product needs to have a connection that the fans can identify and rally behind.”
  • Vans Sneaker: “Maybe have the ’swimming baby’ on the side, or even an option to create your own Nirvana shoe. Generation X and Generation Y are really into user-generated content right now and expressing themselves individually.”

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stoner joey | 8/28/2007, 12:41 pm EST

courtney love seems like an asshole but you dont know ho she is in real life love everyone smoke pot and legalize it

stonerjoey | 8/28/2007, 12:36 pm EST

fuck courtney love

moorethurston | 7/12/2007, 11:09 pm EST

I think whoever “murdered” kurt was aiming for courtney and missed

Me | 7/2/2007, 3:55 am EST

Maybe the NRA will release a special “Nirvana Through A Bullet” edition of the rifle Cobain used to shoot himself…

Tim | 7/1/2007, 3:55 pm EST

How about a specially commissioned, limited edition Kurt Cobain microscope, which music critics can look through in an attempt to find any traces of Courtney Love`s music/acting career.Courtney`s 15 minutes of fame all used up now.

please kill me. | 6/30/2007, 4:51 am EST

My god.

What does she need the money for anyways? She’ll just go out and get more botch plastic surgery jobs.

What a shallow mutant troll doll she is.

I hope Dave G. kills her in her sleep.

Cheesecrop | 6/28/2007, 6:41 pm EST

This is pathetic.

;lkjljfds | 6/28/2007, 4:01 pm EST

Courtney Love has set the bar for wonderful exploitation of her late husband. I applaud her the fact that she’s using Kurt to make more and more money by pumping out useless merchandise.

Great Job, Fucker!

frances farmer | 6/27/2007, 5:59 pm EST

how about the packaging to the candle can read “it’s better to burn out than to fade away”

amide | 6/27/2007, 4:38 pm EST

anyway this toy have a ‘to sing smells like teen spirit’ and ‘to say “i love courtney”‘ buttons… and of course ‘demo mode’! so if u launch it, plastic kurt sings somethin like ‘hello hello hello buy meeee’

doll steak! test meat!^^

Sean | 6/27/2007, 4:21 pm EST

“How about a special edition Kurt Cobain anti-depressant?”

Heroin?

plastic77 | 6/27/2007, 4:07 pm EST

Wow. This whole article sums up in a few paragraphs how messed up the music business has become. Emphasis on business, de-emphasis on music. Very depressing.

amide | 6/27/2007, 3:52 pm EST

can somebody sell me some courtney-faced-action-figures? it’ll be a great fun to detach their heads))

Doug | 6/27/2007, 2:28 pm EST

How about a special edition Kurt Cobain anti-depressant?

Doug | 6/27/2007, 2:28 pm EST

How about a special edition Kurt Cobain anti-depressant?

NYC Nate | 6/27/2007, 1:21 pm EST

I think that they should make action figures of Krist and Dave, too. Then you could join them together and form a paraplegic Voltron. Then Courtney could sell a Kurt Cobain wheelchair toy as a separate accessory!!

The immortal shame | 6/27/2007, 12:46 pm EST

ME:”Somebody throw me a rope! I’m trapped in Courtney Love’s vagina! And it smells like death…oh wait…..Kurt is that you? Holy crap! Dude, you look like crud.”
Kurt: “Yeah. She won’t let me out.”
ME: “But I thought you were dead! Everybody does!”
Kurt: “I wish I was. Would you like to buy my candle?”
ME: “You sell out bastard! If I were you, I’d shove every single candle, lunchbox and Van Nirvana shoe up Courtney’s ass. We both know there’s room.”
Kurt: “Actually, that’s where Elvis lives. He has strange dietary habits.”
ME: “Yuck. So how do I get out of here?”
Kurt: “Just wait a few days. When Courtney goes on the rag, she uses a large down pillow for a tampon. You can use it to climb out.”
ME: “Yuck. So do you wanna come with? I know a great place for cheese fries.”
Kurt: “Sure, just let me bring my lunchbox.”
Me : “Damn Kurt, you sure are a rebel. Lunchbox and all.”
~~~~~~~~~~ROLL CREDITS~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Passenger | 6/27/2007, 11:07 am EST

This is pretty infuriating. Nirvana shoes? Come on. I can’t wait to see some idiot at the mall with those things…or maybe I can wait.

reuven zfat | 6/27/2007, 10:28 am EST

great nat love dad

amide | 6/27/2007, 10:23 am EST

hm. it seems she’ll sell kurt’s corpse one day to solve her financial problems…

Stumped | 6/27/2007, 9:43 am EST

Bootlegging and stealing music…that’ll teach ‘em! I have money, but I don’t want to spend it on things like music. But I still feel entitled. Hey, I know, I’ll just steal the music. If you did the same thing in a restaurant or a mall you could be persecuted.

patsyjack | 6/27/2007, 9:35 am EST

man at least kurt doesnt have to see this

Kurt Cobain | 6/27/2007, 9:27 am EST

How about a ball gag with kurts pouty face on it.

kyguy | 6/27/2007, 9:06 am EST

How about a Kurt-branded syringe? That would fly like a funking kite on a windy day.

Rockstar70 | 6/27/2007, 9:00 am EST

Aren’t CD’s,T-shirts and Posters enough. Action figures……What are we 12.

ServeTheServants | 6/27/2007, 8:59 am EST

How about a Swarovski crystal covered jewelry box that opens to show a tiara-wearing Courtney in a ballerina outfit spinning around on top of a coffin cut away to show Kurt spinning inside? Perfect for valuables like royalty checks, NA chips, and of course, your stash. It could even play a little melody;

Teenage agnst has paid off well/
Now I’m bored and old..

Gwen | 6/27/2007, 7:43 am EST

Courtney Love is the new Yoko Ono. Courtney do you really think your late husband would have wanted that?

Lumpy | 6/27/2007, 4:43 am EST

WOW, I think Courtney is an amazing person and a true talent, but sometimes she really comes up short. A lunchbox??? Damn it, where was her head at at that one.

She really should start making her own money… she should speed up the recordings of her solo record, and of course make it good, and then market it really well…… and should leave Kurt alone.

S | 6/27/2007, 3:20 am EST

I will not be surprised when he rises from the grave to take his vengance…

nawafi | 6/27/2007, 2:02 am EST

the man had killed himself cause he hated fame and the music industry, but so far the music industry and the wife made all the cash(no one can blame kurt for killing himself with this wife)

Gracie | 6/27/2007, 1:32 am EST

Maybe the candle should burn at both ends…

Dan | 6/27/2007, 12:11 am EST

How about a Kurt Cobain bobblehead I can put on the car dashboard?,It`ll look like he`s rocking out when I got the radio on.So where`s Courtney`s new comeback CD?,All the record labels must be passing on it.

seanmaguire | 6/27/2007, 12:06 am EST

Courtney simply needs more money for her “habits”.

J.S. Wildhack | 6/27/2007, 12:04 am EST

An acceptable tribute to Kurt Cobain would either be…

Saving a little money to go out and see shows, seeking out new music that interests you by any means possible, talking with your friends about that music, formulating opinions, and being an active part of the culture that surrounds you.

Or, you know, just buying this dude’s candle.

Mike from Oregon | 6/27/2007, 12:00 am EST

Bottom line the music business and the celebrities it creates are nothing but a bunch of greedy whores. I am sick of hearing about these people not making enough money. I will bootleg and get all the free music possible until the end of my life. Are not you sick of it too?!

Smart Person | 6/26/2007, 11:22 pm EST

Those ideas are all awful. Stop selling out. Make music free.

J.S. Wildhack | 6/26/2007, 11:22 pm EST

*puke*

mikeh123 | 6/26/2007, 10:51 pm EST

LOL Spaceboy, Actually, I’m sure people would pay to see that.

Jeremy | 6/26/2007, 9:42 pm EST

The first two are actually good ideas. But sneakers?!?

killingfloor | 6/26/2007, 8:18 pm EST

Spank Thru The Cash of The Man Who Could’ve Sold Out To The World.

holy hypocracy!!! | 6/26/2007, 7:54 pm EST

kill yourself not to be a corporate tool only to have your widow whore out your corpse. wonderful.

heart-shaped box | 6/26/2007, 7:54 pm EST

no wonder he got inspired and wrote “Heart-shaped Box” ….pls let his soul rest in peace. do u think he will be happy looking down and seeing that he is still being utilised??? this is DIRT cheap…

holy hypocracy!!! | 6/26/2007, 7:54 pm EST

kill yourself not to be a corporate tool only to have your widow whore out your corpse. wonderful.

Marc | 6/26/2007, 7:51 pm EST

The journal was the worse. If any of you have read it, then youre just as guilty. Period.

I was interested at first but then I knew that Kurt wouldnt of wanted that published. He was never about that and me being a die hard fan, I would have rather respected his wishes than to “sell-out”

elSCORCHO | 6/26/2007, 7:17 pm EST

How about the Cobain Action Figure. Complete with toy guitar, shotgun, heroin bags and VMA award.
Cool!.

Spaceboy | 6/26/2007, 6:46 pm EST

Hey! heres an idea, why dont you just dig kurts body up, prop it up, and have to dance to “Smells like teen spirt” or something and charge people to watch.Or is that not exploiting him enough?

dupacrash | 6/26/2007, 6:39 pm EST

did she burn thru all the money she got for selling her stake of the nirvana catalog already?

sweetnessfollows | 6/26/2007, 6:21 pm EST

nope, still all lame.

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