Last year marked the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, but we had to wait until 2015 for the most tasteless memorial to the Nirvana frontman's life.
 
Kurt Cobain's suicide note has now been replicated in its entirety into a baseball shirt that can be purchased on eBay. A similar tank top depicting a replication of the note was also available until recently on Etsy, until a Reddit discussion drew attention to it, prompting the site to take it down. The image can still be seen via Styleite's post.
 
This means at least one person decided it would be cool to market Cobain's most personal sentiment into a shirt. Sixteen of the eBay baseball tees have been sold so far.
 
In the handwritten note, Cobain mourns his loss of enthusiasm for performing before Nirvana's massive crowds and details his admiration of wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean.
 
 

 
 
(Billboard)

Lame...

Meh... I'm actually a HUGE Nirvana/Cobain fan (don't judge me!) and I've got no problem with it if the family doesn't (well his daughter and mother anyway... Courtney can go do something that violates the TOS to herself as far as I'm concerned). He was a bizzarro wordsmith and from what I recall of the letter it seemed to be written knowing it would be read to his fans/released to the public. Knowing his dark sense of humor he'd probably like it.
 
But yeah... if the Bean or his Mum have a problem with it then naw... have some class. If they don't then really it doesn't seem particularly out of place considering the man's mindset in life. Considering it is copyrighted material though (everything is as soon as you write it down) whoever is doing this best be paying royalties lest they feel the wrath of the Hole.

Beepster
Meh... I'm actually a HUGE Nirvana/Cobain fan (don't judge me!) 

I am too. IMHO, Nirvana put the last relevant rock album on the market, though they also put the last nail in the coffin doing so. Rock ceased to be socially relevant after that.
 
But to turn something as personal as a suicide note into a source of profit - I don't know... Why not make a big broadway musical around it?

Are you implying that "bad taste" and "acceptable" are mutually exclusive? 

Rain

Beepster
Meh... I'm actually a HUGE Nirvana/Cobain fan (don't judge me!) 

I am too. IMHO, Nirvana put the last relevant rock album on the market, though they also put the last nail in the coffin doing so. Rock ceased to be socially relevant after that.
 
But to turn something as personal as a suicide note into a source of profit - I don't know... Why not make a big broadway musical around it?

Of course you're totally right but I guess I'm just numbed to the depths capitalism can sink to. This is almost like another irony in the man's weird ass life/career. The guy was OBSESSED with being a successful and noted musician and did everything he could to realize that dream but also completely hated and rejected that exact same goal, mindset and everything that came with it. Then after acheiving his goals from within the machine that is the music industry, which he resented from the get go, he hated it all (unsurprisingly) and himself so much that he offed himself.
 
And now someone is using the final and ultimate symbol of that rejection of his success to profit... which he himself would have done (remember In Utero was initially titled I Hate Myself and Want to Die) and again hated himself for.
 
He was a very strange and misguided fellow. Even as I type all that I feel like laughing at the absurdity of it all but in a sad way.

Beepster
 
Of course you're totally right but I guess I'm just numbed to the depths capitalism can sink to.

I can totally get that, and I think it somewhat had the opposite effect on me. Back in the days, I'm not sure I'd have reacted the same. But nowadays everything seems to be mostly form over substance, biographic details are more important than music, and I tend to shy away from that stuff and focus on the artist's music. In most cases anyway.
 
As for the rest, you hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.
 
First thing that came to mind when I read this was the song "Rape Me"... 

Is Kurt complaining?
 
Taste aside, who licensed Kurt's copyright to this most original work for this purpose? I expect he overlooked a clause in his recording contract that gave his publisher the rights to use any of his work in whatever way they considered valuable for promotion. If not then his heirs seem to be less concerned about his privacy than one would hope.

slartabartfast
Is Kurt complaining?
 

Ever heard a song of his which wasn't complain one way or another? :P The Cure almost sound frivolous by comparison.

I think you are a couple years older than I am (I'm 37) so may have gotten and been able to process more of the grunge/Nirvana thing as it was happening than I was at the time of his death. I was into them but more in a dumb, almost tweenie kind of way whereas the slightly older kids (whom I hung out with) were young adults doing the young adult type things of the time (dope, group sex, slack off stuff). As I've aged I've shed a WHOLE pile of bands and albums I used to REALLY be into but my fondness of Nirvana and Kurt continues to grow. The songwriting and tones just cut so hard and are so catchy they're almost Beatles-esque except raunchier.
 
IDK really what my point is but maybe that's the point. Nirvana and Kurt as a human seem to be all about not knowing whether to laugh or cry or stare blankly at a wall or scream your head of or cut yourself or jerk off or whatever so you kind of just bubble and simmer in all those states and bob your head in agreement to the music even though it doesn't make sense lest you explode from the impotent angst of your existence.
 
Damn... now I gotta go listen to the demo version of Aneurysm ("Beat it! Beat it!").
 
heheh... friggen' Kurt... you beautiful weirdo.