NEWS: Kurt, Sid, Joey and Joe Sell Footwear from Beyond the Grave

CELEB: Kurt, Sid, Joey and Joe Sell Footwear from Beyond the Grave

Just because you're dead, doesn't mean you can't sell shoes and it seems that no one knows this better than the makers of Doc Marten's. Evidently, the company is about to run a new poster campaign depicting Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone as angels hanging out on clouds and wearing Docs.

According to a story on The Daily Swarm, the images have only been cleared for use in the UK so far. If you like what you see, credit should go to photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet who collaborated to enhance and retouch photos of the pop-icons licensed to Dr.Martens by Corbis.

Oh my god.

...This is fucking appaling...


I JUST bought a toga for the ridiculous price of 29.99. Used. And now I find out all I had to do was buy some Doc Martens to get a free one?!

FUCK!

That is quite possibly the creepiest picture of Kurt I have ever seen. Not to mention, he's probably screaming in his grave about being used an advertisement for SHOES. Since he was avidly against any sort of commercialism and all that.

Bill Hicks just span in his grave.

If they were really rock and roll, shouldn't those pictures have more flames, and little half-goat dudes with pitchforks?

Or was that just Meatloaf.

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

*shudder*

Wasn't Kurt a Converse All-Star man?

And didn't Joey wear those weird plimsolls the other Ramones had?

Good fucking god. This aggrivates me in so many ways. Good way to make certain that you will NEVER sell a pair of shoes to me. Fuck you corporate cocksuckers.

ooooooof! what a fucking shame.

the advertising exec who came up with this idea obviously has no clue about how to connect with consumers. those photos are terrifying...

What the hell is wrong with the people at Doc Martens? So someone saw this and said, "yea, this will motivate people to buy our shoes".

Hahahaha Sid Vicious in heaven...*wipes a tear*

On a more serious note...bwahahahaha...no, sorry. Can't stop laughing long enough to be revulsed....no,wait...there it is.

Ugh. even when you're dead they won't leave you rest.
Or have you hock their shit.

....for fuck sakes

I quite seriously thought I might be asleep and that this thread and its content was a dream.

A sad, sad dream.

well....
the sid one looks cool(ish)
you can guess what i think of the others

Don't forget the Nirvana song "Breed" was used in a baseball video game commercial. Poor Kurt

bullshit.

i love Docs, don't get me wrong. i've owned many a pair in my lifetime, but if anything, they are not "made to last". the multiple holes in the shoes of my Doc Marten graveyard is testament to that.

that they are using dead rock stars to peddle their products is just the frosting.

Don't plimsolls = All-Stars?

But you are correct. I don't think any of these guys wore them on a regular basis. They sure weren't known for it. Pretty disgusting either way.

I don't think Cobain was an avid Docs user.

agh!

"Just because your dead..."

you're*

= peeve.

Hilarious.

its kind of creepy

When I read the title I thought it was something silly like selling their old shoes somehow for charity.
If only.
This is REALLY silly.

using the dead like that is bad enough but didn't all those guys sport chuck taylors and not docs? the problem lies with the ad agency though and not doc martens.

anyways, it looks like dr. martens did not commission the ads and they were just a concept that was never approved nor were they supposed to be released. dr marten has since dropped the ad agency responsible for the images.
(thumbs up)