In a story that’s been running all week, Disney’s Joy Division inspired Mickey Mouse t-shirt has now been withdrawn from sale.
Pitchfork reports that a representative from Disney has said: “As soon as we became aware there could be an issue, we pulled it from our shelves and our online store to review the situation further.”
Peter Hook recently spoke to the NME to say he felt it was “quite a compliment” that Disney used Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ artwork in the Mickey Mouse item of clothing. The former New Order bassist had suggested that the garment was a “tongue in cheek compliment” to the defunct band.
The T-shirt features the classic image of a pulsar, which was originally taken from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Of Astronomy. It was chosen by the band’s guitarist Bernard Sumner, with help from graphic designer Peter Saville.
Wrestling star Hulk Hogan has revealed that he almost joined an early version of Metallica.
The grappler told The Sun: “I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn’t work out.”
Hogan also spoke about his love for The Stone Roses and said that the reunited Manchester band were once the soundtrack to his workout sessions. He said: “I love the Stone Roses. They’re getting back together, right? That’s cool man. I used to work out to some of their songs”.
The wrestler also said he was aware that Kasabian often use his name as a pseudonym to check into hotel rooms under and joked that he wasn’t happy about it.
Napster, the website that was once considered to be the flagship service for illegal filesharing, has relaunched as a legal streaming service.
The service, which was set up in 1999 by Shawn Fanning, was bought by online music subscription service Rhapsody last year, who opted to retire the name and fold it into their own operations in the US, but have now said they want to keep the name Napster in Europe.
Napster originally closed in 2001 after a series of lawsuits from the music industry and individual artists were launched against it.
It re-emerged two years later and attempted to reposition itself as a legal download service, going through a series of owners and relaunches. It’s now once again rebranded itself and now promises paying subscribers access to over 15 million tracks.
Finally former REM frontman Michael Stipe has described the managers of YouTube as ”disgraceful and cowardly” after they removed a clip which has been made by the singerPerfume Genius.
The video, which advertised the new Perfume Genius album has been taken down from YouTube for apparently violating the site’s ‘adult image policy’.
The 16 second clip featured Perfume Genius, otherwise known as Mike Hadreas, embracing gay porn star Arpad Miklos, in shots taken from the video to the song ‘Hood’, which you may have heard on Key Cuts this week here on Phantom. YouTube took the video down after saying that it “promoted mature sexual themes”.
Stipe, writing on his blog, hit out at the site’s decision to take the clip down, which he described as “dumbheaded discrimination”.
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