October 2, 2007

{     Star Wars Tees from Chop Shop     }    

Anyone who knows me knows that whenever Star Wars comes up I just shake my head and sigh ("Yeah, it's okay I guess, but dude, you've got a Star Wars BLANKET hanging on your wall."). I mean, if you're going to put three flicks up on a pedestal, then all I gots to say is this: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! And if we're playing by sci-fi-only rules, then my money is on Starship Troopers every time. Then there's what has been Star Wars merch in recent years. The franchise has been taken from already ridiculous and cranked into some Teletubba-Barneyforce-in-space-type-shit. Maximum cheese.

Well, the guys at Chop Shop have managed to wrastle the vintage Star Wars goodness back from the double-ended-saber-dweebs and made some shirts that people whom do not think wallpaper made out of toy packaging is cool might actually wear. Instead of the lame-o way S'Wars shirts have been done oh so many times before, they've gone and gotten all Von Dutch on Lucus' ass with three shirts (Vader, Chewy and a Raider) and given them a beautiful pinstriping design. They may still be geeky, but they're kinda upper-class geeky. Less Boba Fett bedsheets, more Storm Trooper helmet if you will. More saber-severed Luke, less cutesy what's-the-face- dumb-character-from-the-new-ones- that-I-don't-even-give-enough-of-a- shit-about-to-look-up-it's-name.

Check 'em out at the Chop Shop Store!