Okay, so you’ve read the story, you’ve wept over the death of VHS, and now you’re thinking of inviting the rest of Joy Division and Charles Band over for an impromptu necktie party, but wait! Hold up there, sad VHS persons (you Charles Band fans can by all means continue approaching cyanosis)! Our friends at Nakatomi, Inc. have come out with a dazzling T-shirt that’ll not only provide you with instant tapehead street-cred but also doubles as a handy hanky (stop your sobbing, already), or, when all else fails, an E-Z-tear, DIY asphyxiation device. Not that it’s ever going to come to that, mind you. Based on an idea by Zack Carlson and artistically executed by Justin Ishmael, we think it’s better than sliced bread, but not quite as cool as Betamax or old Atari cartridges. But that’s just us. Long live the old flesh!
This article appears in January 16 • 2009.