yet another awesome shirt from Threadless
This shirt is particularly relevant to me, because I remember the first Satanic Panic, which was focused on backwards messages in rock music in the late seventies. (The second Satanic Panic focused on D&D, also rippled through my life in the early eighties.)
If you have a moment, click on that picture to embiggen (at Threadless) the image on this T-shirt. I think it's brilliant.
Disclosure: If you buy anything at Threadless through that link, I get shiny gold rocks which can be traded for their T-shirts.
shiny gold rocks coming your way!
Posted by:Starr01 | August 13, 2007 at 05:17 PM
I remember both iterations of the Satanic Panics, too, which is why I always keep this link handy:
http://www.theescapist.com/random011102.htm
Posted by:Angry Grrl | August 13, 2007 at 06:33 PM
Turn me on dead man.
My mother forced me to throw away "KISS Alive II" after an admonition from the pulpit.
Posted by:Joe Speaker | August 14, 2007 at 09:03 AM
Yeah, I lived through both panics as well. And all the first one did is make me WANT to listen to records backwards. If they hadn't said anything, I wouldn't have known to do that...
And I still get asked if I worship Satan when people find out I play D&D.
Posted by:Keri | August 14, 2007 at 09:10 AM
Ahh yes. The witch hunts of the early eighties.
Painful memories there. Being a geek back then brought with it some pretty serious discrimination. I remember a huge D&D book burning in a neighboring town of mine, and it only strengthened my resolve to keep gaming.
Still today going strong, and I have my old 'red/blue books and pre-PC hardcovers.'
Posted by:Thane9 | August 14, 2007 at 09:57 AM
Apparently the Satanic Panic extended beyond the English-speaking countries, because while in El Salvador recently, I read an article about a bigtime comics collector there who had to reconstitute his whole collection after his parents threw out the whole thing during the SP. The good news for him was that his grandmother or someone still had his stash of Spiderman stuff, which forms the core of the new collection.
Posted by:ProudTexasWoman | August 15, 2007 at 08:41 AM
Speaking of tshirts anyone remember a tee Wil posted called something along the lines of "How geeks learned to love working out!".
And underneath there was four panels of stick men excerising and with little speech bubbles saying things like (while doing pullups) "One more +1 to str and i'll start to work on my con".
Anyone know where I can get that tshirt?
Posted by:theObserver | August 15, 2007 at 11:55 AM