s&d: justin timberlake sporting an mc5 tshirt on the cover of vibe this month

the whole thing shows up people over the age of 20 who wear band shirts as an expression of cool 4 the style-as-cred obsessed dolts they are.

could it be because mc5 were white panthers and justin could concievable showing the links between his music and background and his links with nerd?

it's a classic cover, though. aesthetically. though i would prefer it if he were wearing a rocket from the tombs t-shirt.

The cover is the cutest I've ever seen him.

Doomie's home! Hooray!

news year eve was strange, i was at a company party thrown by my brother in law, boring as hell though nobody took me up on my suggestion that we should have a key party! bahahahah!

What you call a "hang up" I call a "raison d'etre".

"why on earth wd JT not know who the MC5 are?"

`Cos he's fuckin' twelve!

"he probably reads abt them the same places the rest of us do"

Really doubt that.

"...and i'm sure he has BETTER access to free records"

Maybe so, but when was the last time there was a re-release by the MC5?

"alex's logic is (presumably) that, if JT had ever listened to the MC5 seriously (and likes them) he wd not be able to pursue the career he pursues"

Not exactly. I'd suggest that if JT listened to the MC5, he'd probably think: "whoa....this is not my scene," and thus wouldn't associate himself with it.

"but this makes no sense at all — or at least, no more sense than the claim that alex can't ever have listened to the MC5 (and liked them) or *he* wd not be able to pursue the career he pursues!!"

This point makes no sense, Mark, as you negate the possibility that I could appreciate the music of an artist without necessarily supporting every belief the artist in question espoused (classic example: Jaz Coleman's fixation with the occult, numerology and permaculturalism.)

"THE ONLY PEOPLE ALLOWED TO WEAR MC5 T-SHIRTS ARE REAL ACTUAL MEMBERS OF THE MC5!!"

No, only people who *APPRECIATE* the music of the MC5 should wear MC5 t-shirts. Pure. Simple. Succint.

"some of them work on Wall Street, some of them are cops, some of them wear smoking jackets and read proust) (the last is how i imagine alex)"

Don't smoke....thus I do not own a smoking jacket (as that would make me a poseur in the eyes of smokers. God forbid!)

alex you're posing smoking in any jacket

Conclusion: who gives a shit.

`Cos he's fuckin' twelve!

Not trying to be contrary, but I knew who MC5 were when I was twelve, and I wasn't even into music at that point.

I am now an official Justin groupie, I think.