Home Taping Shorts
Description: My dirt white version of the classic advertising "Home Taping Is Killing Music. And It's Illegal". Don't pirate! Is not cool, dudes!!
Home Taping Is Killing Music 2 Shorts
by MalcolmDesigns Retro Merch | Movies | Retrogaming | Saturday Morning Cartoons | Computers
$27
Description: Back in the 1980s the ‘Home Taping Is Killing Music’ message, was a propaganda campaign by the industry, who were terrified that people taping music from the radio, or off of friends’ records was going to destroy the business. Of course it was nonsense, but for years this message appeared all over the world. This particular version is a South African variant, found stamped on the inner sleeve, of an album in a Cape Town vintage shop… It just screamed out to be made into a T-shirt.
Description: Before streaming, before playlists, before everything lived in the cloud… There were blank cassettes. And, the record industry was terrified of them. A vintage-inspired analog pirate artifact celebrating the glorious age of home taping, complete with an aged cassette, crossed-bones pro-piracy graphic, faded print, and the wonderfully passive-aggressive message: “HOME TAPING IS KILLING RECORD INDUSTRY PROFITS! WE LEFT THIS SIDE BLANK SO YOU CAN HELP.” A little piece of obsolete technology, a little music-history sarcasm, and a whole lot of Gen-X attitude. Press PLAY. Fuck the algorithm.
