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Urban Outfitters gives campaign donations to Rick Santorum.

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sloppy robot

sooooo hot...

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shirts.

BostonFixed

I'll bet that that the stick-figure bike is a pista.

See the similarities?

Bert McGert

IMO...I think the shirt is allright. Not that I would rock it, but it's not that bad. But if someone wants to buy it, just go directly through Upper Playground.

PS U.O. gives money to Rick Santorum? Jesus, if I didn't hate them already...

witz

exactly. spend that $30 on Red Star and use the other $5 for a rainy day.

$0.00/Gal

Yep. Here is the article that the news first appeared in: https://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=5725

And here is the excerpt that matters:

While the typical Urban Outfitters shopper is likely to be liberal-minded--as is the province and privilege of youth--the fiftysomething Hayne is mom-and-apple-pie conservative. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Paleolithic right-wing Republican Sen. Rick Santorum and his Political Action Committee over the years.

Hayne, who would prefer this fact not appear in this story, did not always tilt hard to the right. In fact, he and the retail concern he founded came of age in the heady, longhaired lefty crucible of the '60s. Back then he was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration that perpetrated it and the big business military-industrial complex that financed it.

The times, however, have a-changed.

Bert McGert

Wow, nothing like Co-opting every single organic street level trend and selling them to the suburbs for a 75% markup while contributing money to a Republican who is working to suppress the people who start those trends.

polish

I never saw this coming. Watch for Puma hosting the F-games next year.

SD Fixed

And what's wrong with that?

seasponge

look at skateboarding

chipko

Although the rear derailer is lost in a white blob the fact that there are 3 discernable cables is a pretty good hint that it isnt fixed. FWIW it does seem like a sexist shirt to me. The boys bike is obviously fixed(or maybe a coastie with no brakes) while the girls bike is a fendered freewheeling step through. However its entirely likely that i am just projecting here. I can't believe i am writing about this crap...

SD Fixed

You think they are gonna start putting up a sign "No track bike riding" soon?

We're gonna have to don "Riding Fixed is Not a Crime" shirts soon?

I don't see the harm. It's already misunderstood. How could it get any more convoluted?

Tony Hawks Underground Video will become Squid's "Get there at all cost" video.

5star3

haha.

the man is holding you down, right?

its a shirt guys.

seasponge

No, and that is not what the x-games did to skateboarding. get a clue.


See above.

you just don't get it. nevermind.

seasponge

maybe not him but surely someone else. but you don't care about anyone but yourself do you?

dustinlikewhat

woah, step-through pursuit bike!

killsurfcity

i see your point, but it's wrong.

SD Fixed

You're just dreaming up the death of something based upon your love for days gone past. It's not bad to like things the way they are, or lament the loss of something that isn't what it used to be.

I miss the days of Christian Hosoi (See him slam dance with the van in Gleeming the Cube?).. And when Corrosion of Conformity was something not many people knew of.

But things change. It's just a fact of life. And frankly, it'd be cool if more products came out and there was more stuff cheaper that is just as good.

I lament the day I left my Univega (Alpine Uno) that was a garage cludge SS at the store un locked because I couldn't take it with me when I enlisted. I'm still on the search for that gold frame in good shape.

But **** happens and you can sit and whine and lash out.. or move the **** on. Change is always in the background. Along with renewal.

And if you can't speak clearly, spell out what you mean with your double hidden "you ought to know or your not cool enought to talk to" then.. just suck it up, wipe your nose on your sleeve and go the @#3 home.

seasponge

yes, there will always be change. however, there is good change and there is bad change. there's something about capitalism's ability to commodify and denigrate everything that some people (me) find disgusting. this is just another example of it, maybe some people want to point that out and talk about it. i'm not saying you have to care. i'm not saying the co-optation of an already privileged activity is more important than the greater ills capitalism dishes out.

there. i am sure i am just being "too serious" or i am a "commie" though.

shants

i repeat, who cares?

zip22

last time i was at urban outfitters (checking out some hemp gazelles - i have a gift certificate, and these caught my eye) there were 2 guys (one must have worked there) working on a fixie conversion right dead center in the store. they were decked out in all the best hipster gear. at first i felt a connection, then i immediately realized how lame it all seemed.

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Jamtastic

i have never heard of urban outfitters. some of their stuff looks pretty cool. in oklahoma the only options are abercrobie, american eagle, or the salvation army. The army is my friend: they give me cheap clothes of yesteryear

food

ACK! More evil! This time from Modern Amusement

https://i24.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/2e/bb/d4_1.JPG