"If you're gonna wear a band tee, you better know about that band," says Shepard Fairey, forty-nine seconds into a video interview for Hypebeast spectacularly titled "Shepard Fairey Shares His Vintage Collection of Band Tees.""I see it happen all the time. I saw a girl wearing a Joy Division t-shirt and I said 'oh, Joy Division' and she went 'what?' She had no idea what I was talking about. She said she'd seen it on Tumblr and bought it at Urban Outfitters. Very depressing."We've all been there: You're talking to a person, you notice their Band Tee, so you decide to tell them nice t-shirt because you also like that band. Then, because life is terrible and people are sick, the idiot doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about because nobody cares about the music anymore, man. You then get depression.Shepard Fairey is basically that horrible guy at a party that won't stop trying to educate you about "real" "culture" in the video. The kind that corners you so that you can't escape while telling you that "Ian Curtis dying was the best thing to ever happen to New Order" while chuckling to himself and sipping a Stone and Wood through his permanently pursed lips.Fairey then goes on to suggest that Justin Bieber wears Metallica, Pantera and Nirvana band tees for the sake of, dare I say, fashion. And that is, more or less, a catastrophic disaster."I'm not a Justin Bieber fan, I don't care what he does," he says,followed by: "I will not allow Justin Bieber to taint an entire genre for me." My two cents? I would have to say that this entire freaking video—as well as Fairey's seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of Bieber's wardrobe—indicates at least some level of care and so makes this alleged apathy kind of hard to buy.He then proceeds to hold up some of his favourite music t-shirts like his Velvet Underground one and his Stooges one while wearing a Modern Lovers one and interestingly enough doesn't manage to name five of their albums at any point but we're sure he's getting around to it.Watch the video below if you feel like getting patronised for literally not even doing anything wrong.
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