The Swarm

March 14, 2008

Exclusive: Kurt Cobain Converse custom Chucks coming....

David Prince

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

(new photos via Ad Age)

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That’s right, those pictures above are legit. While the much discussed Joy Division New Balance sneakers were a one-pair-only art project, The Daily Swarm has confirmed that a limited edition series of custom Kurt Cobain Converse shoes is currently in production, and will be released this summer as part of the shoe company’s year-long 100th Anniversary ‘Welcome to the Converse Century’ celebration.

Several different designs are coming, including at least one Converse One Star model (pictured above) and a series of Chuck Taylor high tops. The design elements for each of the shoes are taken from Cobain’s own drawings and writings that were published in the 2002 book Journals.

Unlike last year’s ill-fated Doc Martens ad campaign – when the images of Kurt Cobain and several other deceased punk icons were licensed from a photo agency but not cleared with the musicians’ estates – the Kurt Cobain Converse are being produced with the full cooperation and approval of Courtney Love (maybe she’ll write about it on her brand new Tumblr blog). And also unlike the Dr. Martens, Cobain was a known fan and user of the product he’s posthumously endorsing. Right up to the end.

Contrary to a false report in Billboard that was picked up by Ad Age, there are no current plans to use any of Cobain’s songs to market the shoes.

The Converse Century campaign also includes the previously discussed Converse Century Icons featuring images of Hunter S. Thompson, Ian Curtis, Sid Vicious, M.I.A., Common and others. Kurt Cobain is not a Converse Century icon.

Full details about the Kurt Cobain Converse are coming in April.

ALSO:

Kurt Cobain for sale: Inside the Heart Shaped Box

Kurt Cobain robbed of $72 million… identity thieves loot Francis Bean’s trust fund… Courtney knew in 2003 but was too strung out to stop it…

Heavensgate: Flogging a Dead Horse


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#1 McKilla DaNilla says:

Watch your step, I just threw up.

#2 J Kent says:

wow, good find if those are indeed the shoes he's wearing in the photo.

It certainly brings up some interesting ethical questions but really is it any different than licensing a musicians songs for an advertisement posthumously?

#3 PacoRivera says:

if anyone wears these it will suck. i almost want to throw out a few pairs of shoes.

#4 Oliver Stone says:

It is well known that Cobain was wearing Converse One Stars at the time of his murder.

#5 D West says:

Grunge is dead

#6 wow says:

sometimes words just fail

#7 2RealEstateMidgets says:

"Punk rock means freedom" - and dead punk rock stars mean payday!

#8 emily says:

gosh. i'm glad i bought my last pair of chucks from a thriftstore... the joy division shoes were worse though.

#9 Smells like teen foot odor says:

Not sure whats worse, these shoes or kurt's simple view of punk rock.
Maybe they're made for each other.
Kudos to Converse for finally finding a corpse/sponsor that actually wears their product.

#10 Q says:

me want this very much :)

#11 lfm says:

this is precisely why he committed suicide, the machine is now abusing of him, but instead of doing so while making great music, now its time for shoes. shame on you converse, sad.

spirits and thoughts live on, faceless corporate brands do not.

#12 head.. says:

do the shoes come dirty?

punk rock means freedom?

gay.

#13 ec says:

you know what equals freedom, having an original thought.

#14 mrs. k says:

"the machine is now abusing of him, but instead of doing so while making great music, now its time for shoes. shame on you converse, sad."

thats bull shit. kurt knew this shit would happen once he died. if you think that its the media's fault for making money off of him then you're ignorant. one, its courtney's fault for taking her dead husbands property and making as much money off of it as possible. two, kurt knew this stuff would happen... anyone who has a famous status like kurt and decides to commit suicide knows that people will just try to make money off of him. and three, who the fuck cares if they're coming out with a pair of kurt cobain converses? this is paying honor to one of the greatest musical geniuses of our time. you should all be proud to have such a thing come out. if you're not, then you're not a true fan.

#15 mrs. k says:

"punk rock means freedom?

gay."

yeah, thats really homosexual. grow up.

#16 bob says:

I love Converse and Kurt Cobain is cool XD

#17 No Love says:

Courtney must be stopped once and for all.

#18 King Anna says:

Kurt woulda laugh so much if he knew.. dont think he would be upset.. but who knows?

#19 Emile Durkheim says:

mrs k said:

"this is paying honor to one of the greatest musical geniuses of our time. you should all be proud to have such a thing come out. if you're not, then you're not a true fan."

it was at the end of a long paragraph. i just thought that people should have an opportunity to read that sort of statement, because it's the kind of statement only a converse rep or cobain estate rep would EVER say.

this is pathetic horse poop

#20 ms. libre says:

i hope they go bankrupt. again.

#21 a friend of his. says:

this is just wrong on SO many levels.
it figures though. thanks court.
get some more plastic surgery with the proceeds and take better care of frances. oh wait, not like you actually NEED more money. royalties, licensing. yeah.
how can you even sleep at night?

#22 mrs. k says:

"it was at the end of a long paragraph. i just thought that people should have an opportunity to read that sort of statement, because it's the kind of statement only a converse rep or cobain estate rep would EVER say.

this is pathetic horse poop"

haha, oh yes. you figured me out, i work for the cobain estate and im a converse represenative on the side. riiiight.

forgive me for being a loyal fan to nirvana and kurt cobain. i see nothing wrong with converse making a shoe based off of kurt. on the other hand, i think it is bull shit that courtney is getting all the money for this. but thats a different subject. everyone is saying how much they hate courtney but no one says anything about the shoe. we all know that courtney has been selling kurt's merchendise for her own profit; however, the stuff that she is selling is worth the buy. the converse shoes are sweet. i dont think kurt would be ashamed or discusted with this decision. if anything, he should be honored and flattered.

if you all want to try and act like 12 year old boys and be rebelious then go right ahead and bash on anything that has to do with kurt... just realize if those products weren't out there then his music would not live on. nor would there be any fans left.

#23 cody says:

i cant wait till they come out i am going to buy a pair of each cobain is king and then theres me =D

#24 Megan says:

"you should all be proud to have such a thing come out. if you're not, then you're not a true fan."

That's bull shit. One, Kurt was disgusted by commercial products like that and probably wouldn't have seen that coming even if he did commit suicide because he was way too high to have that on his mind at that moment (if he was even able to remain conscious at all). They photocopied entries from his private journals, for crying out loud. The very first sentence of the published version of his writings was, "Don't read my diary when I'm gone." "If anything, he should be honored and flattered" my ass! Two, he was murdered and there's plenty of evidence to point to the fact if you know where to look. Hence three, it isn't appropriate to accuse these people of not being true fans.

"if you all want to try and act like 12 year old boys and be rebelious then go right ahead and bash on anything that has to do with kurt... just realize if those products weren't out there then his music would not live on. nor would there be any fans left."

That is just plain ignorant, right there. There would be plenty of fans left, Kurt didn't die that long ago (unless it was before this person was born?). The point is, the way that Courtney's been exploiting him for all these years is an insult to him.

#25 LAK says:

I don't see the point of getting into such an uproar over a pair of shoes. If you don't like them, don't buy them. If you do like them, get a pair. Your beliefs and opinions are your own.

#26 diddikins says:

how many pairs are going to be made?
and how mcuh / where are they selling them?

#27 matt says:

punk rock apparently means paying for these stupid, over-priced shoes. so tired of large companies latching onto deceased musicians and areas of culture they simply dont understand.

#28 Patrick says:

Hmm...Nirvana`s grunge,not punk rock

#29 tyler fucking matthews says:

this is fucking stupid. fuck courtney love.

#30 www.fashionmodeling.biz says:

Great concept, however, would Kurt Cobain would have endorsed the ubiquitous commercialization of his work?

#31 Hackneyed says:

This is wrong on so many levels

#32 lorena says:

kurt cobain would never in his life (or death) endorse a product like this. screw courtney for selling him out, yet again.

i hope the mothers of the stupid fourteen year olds who will want these won't give them the money to buy them.

this is terribly wrong.

rip kurt

#33 yup. says:

I'll stick with my Charles Barkleys.

#34 Me says:

Yes, I will buy them for my daughter. Because I do what I want, not WWKD.

I laugh at the people with so much insight into Kurt. Did you know him? Meet him? Have a conversation with him? No.

Kurt was who he was. Don't be followers. Be yourselves...and if that means you want to buy a pair of shoes with his stuff on it, so be it. The others, who are gasping at the thought, are the wannabe's.

#35 nirvanadude94 says:

1st of all, d west is a dueche!Grunge will live forever.Nirvana is my favorite band and i would honestly be willing to pay $100+ for this shoe,especially the hightop black ones with all the white writing on them.

R.I.P. Kurt D. Cobain

#36 mrs. k says:

haha, wow.

i just think its amazing how some people on here claim to be kurt cobain fans. instead, people are bitching and complaining about courtney love selling out kurt and everything that came along with him. i agree that she shouldn't be getting all the money and doing whatever she can to make money... but no one is realizing that what she does is good for kurt and great for his fans. it might be selfish of her to get all the money off of anything pissible but she is doing it for his fans. if you like kurt or nirvana... then you would atleast like the products that come along with them. that doesnt mean you have to purchase them or agree with everything. but you would atleast appriciate ANYTHING that is kurt cobain or nirvana related.

#37 Converse supervisor says:

Mrs. K - great work, why don't you take the rest of the day off?

#38 mrs. k says:

"One, Kurt was disgusted by commercial products like that"
haha, oh really... is that why he agreed to so many magazine shoots, photo shoots, interviews, live concerts, music videos, book interviews and much more? huh? if he wasn't into commercial products like he claimed to be, then he could have said no and gone against his bandmates.

"The very first sentence of the published version of his writings was, 'Don't read my diary when I'm gone.'"

and if you were the least bit intelligent, you would realize that one line under that statement it says "OK, im going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read my diary. look through my things, and figure me out"

"Two, he was murdered and there's plenty of evidence to point to the fact if you know where to look."

thats probably the biggest load of crap i've ever heard. im not totally dismissing the fact that courtney or someone she hired could have killed him, but the fact of the matter is that kurt cobain committed suicide. so many people don't want to see that as a possiblity because no one wants to think that kurt could have done such a thing. if YOU know where to look, theres sources and family members of him that say he has talked about suicide since he was a boy... telling many people that he would go out in fame in glory. and if you try to bring up the drug facts then think about how heavily of a heroin addict he was. he could take that much heroin and still have time to pick up a 20 gauge shotgun and kill himself.

think before you speak.

#39 mrs. k says:

hmmm, maybe i'll do that and take my brilliant mind and come out with everything nirvana so kurt cobain can rule the world and all of you "fans" can squirm in your seats and complain about how kurt never wanted any of this.

#40 mustu says:

when is the release date again???

#41 mrs. k says:

i believe it's sometime in may :)

#42 Ella says:

Wow, let's market a dead rocker and quasi punk rock ethics to a new generation, because y'know...that definitely does a just representation of what punk stood for. Oh the humanity...it's even worse than when Nicke used "Revolution" for their ad campaign in the '80s! (I thank wacko jacko for that wonderus manouver...)

Thank you, All Stars, for the continued Elvisization of my favorite band. Oy.

#43 Biggest Fan says:

Omfg i can't wait i'm getting one in every style xD and punk rock does mean freedom. Hells ya!

#44 Megan says:

He wrote "look through my things, and figure me out" for whoever the hell was living with him or dating him at the time, sweet pea, not after he was dead. Note that the "don't read my diary when I'm gone" is written as an aside and what comes next is on the actual lines of the notebook paper. Does that not imply that he tells us not to read it when he's gone as an AFTERthought?

"think before you speak."

Don't be a self-righteous douchebag. This just makes you sound like a 14-year-old girl.

#45 Jasmine says:

I'm a big nirvana fan and I love and collect chucks (i think I have about 14 pairs now? haha.) so I will totally be getting the black hightops. :)
:D If they have them in kid sizes, I may get a pair for my two year old so Mommy and Baby can still have matching chucks. How awesome would that be? heheheheheh I'm excited.

#46 whatever says:

chill people. curt did what he wanted and thats that....stop complaining. its stupid and immature...you all sound like 14year old.....
dont you believe in peace....gosh

#47 Lee says:

Jesus Henry Christ, this goes against what Kurt was about. This is just sad...

#48 Kunt Kurbaine says:

Where's the blood and brain stains?

Sick shit man, last time I wear Cons.

#49 Mike D. says:

These are awsome! I love Kurt Cobain, I saw him in concert in 1991.

#50 cobainiac says:

courtney love is the biggest sleaze on the planet

#51 blue pickle says:

For all of those who think Kurt was completely above selling out, remember the JagStang. Before his death Kurt was working with Fender to come out with a guitar he would endorse. So it's not that far of a leap to say he would do the same with the company that made the shoes he wore...

Just my 2 cents.

#52 allstar says:

Converse is now Nike. Kurt didn't wear Nike's. All the "indie-cred" once associated with Converse is long since gone. These shoes are an oxymoron between the man they "honor" and the corporate-giant who is going to make a tidy profit off them.

#53 that guy says:

im shocked this is what people are pissed about. hell. im shocked converse makes any sells at all. is a 2cent shoe sold for 40 bucks. stupid.
anyway, kurt wouldnt have liked it. did he do stuff that contradicted that. sure. he hated the idea that nirvana's music was called grunge and not punk, but it still had aspects of grunge as well as punk. doesnt mean he liked either. neither does not making a purchase make someone pretentious. im not making one on entirely rational terms, though im a kurt fan.
as for the other group of zealots, no he probably didnt want it. but hell, he's dead, what does he care? will you give one qauter of a cup of piss what shoes some cheap lazy-ass company makes in your honor long after youre worm feast. we''l all be dead eventually, and then this will be forgotten and of no consequence. so stop taking all of life so damn seriously.
...oh, and courtney's a dumb bitch who needs to die. thats all.

#54 mrs. k says:

haha, okay megan... try to analyze kurt's writings all you want, i dont care. my point is that anyone who is a fan should be happy to have nirvana products and kurt cobain products come out. im not saying that you have to agree with courtney but if you claim to be a fan, then you should all appriciate anything nirvana or kurt cobain related. plus, kurt wore converse shoes. i dont think that if he was living that he would have a problem with this.

"For all of those who think Kurt was completely above selling out, remember the JagStang. Before his death Kurt was working with Fender to come out with a guitar he would endorse. So it's not that far of a leap to say he would do the same with the company that made the shoes he wore..."

...exactly! :)

#55 jeremiah come find me says:

the net is so full of a bunch tools cryin about this and that just accept they made shoes out of it and if you really love nirvana you wil get a pair if not just shut the fu*k up you useless net pieces of trash

#56 amanda says:

"These are awsome! I love Kurt Cobain, I saw him in concert in 1991."

Holy shit, how was that?

#57 www.FreeComputerSoftware.net says:

Who get's the royalties from this?

#58 jilabel says:

Downright embarassing.

I want him to come back from the dead and smack Courtney repeatedly.

#59 mitch says:

I love the grunge man

#60 mrs. k says:

isn't this site for people who actually like the shoes... not people who hate courtney.

anyways, theres another black pair of shoes on www.nirvanafanclub.com i like the those ones, the one stars and the low top white shoes. anyone else going to buy a pair?

#61 mrs. k says:

"Who get's the royalties from this?"

...courtney, sadly. but when you think about it, who else should get them? anything that is about kurt cobain i think courtney and frances deserves. anything nirvana, on the otherhand, i think should also go to dave and krist. such a pitty that it doesnt though. krist has flipper though and dave has foo fighters so i think they're pretty happy with what they have.

#62 Miranda Leach says:

OMG!
im such a kurt fan!
i cant wait to snag me a pair of these chucks!
yes!

#63 Miranda Leach says:

oh...and i hope he rises from the dead and kills courtney like she did him.
=]

#64 Selene_tussand. says:

Grunge is only dead if you let yourself believe that it is dead. If YOU are into grunge then it is never DEAD, unless you're brain dead and allow it to sit in the darkened tunnels of your braincells. Furthermore, grunge is alive in my thoughts.
I wear converse, that doesn't mean it sucks. I wear Kurt Cobain, I am not a poser. The only thing that stereotypes you into those categories, is if you stereotype yourself into them. Don't judge people on what they wear and call them a poser if they don't look like fans. Come on now.

#65 Megan says:

"haha, okay megan... try to analyze kurt's writings all you want, i dont care. my point is that anyone who is a fan should be happy to have nirvana products and kurt cobain products come out. im not saying that you have to agree with courtney but if you claim to be a fan, then you should all appriciate anything nirvana or kurt cobain related. plus, kurt wore converse shoes. i dont think that if he was living that he would have a problem with this."

Mwoh kay. I just didn't feel like snubbing the rest of the crowd was justified.

If it's another person's analyzation of the same writing, don't say "if you were the least bit intelligent, you would have seen this..." Come on. But that's cool. I'm sorry, I've just spent the last month and a half snarling at idiots on IMDb and I was pretty edgy by that point :)

#66 619 says:

Spirits and thoughts live on but corporate names do not? Hello!!! Converse and Levis along with some other corporate names have meant more to me than some drug addict weakling who couldn't face everyday obstacles. The day i look back over a century of photo's and see Kurt Cobain instead of Levis and Converse I will recant this comment!!!!

#67 Jordan Bain and Erik Echols says:

Yah!!!! What 619 said!

#68 mrs. k says:

oooo, yeah, call me names... that's really going to make me stop talking! i, on the other hand, never analyzed anything of his. i said if you were smart and literate, you would have seen what he said after. i didnt go into my thoughts about what he meant by it. if you want to bitch and complain all you want about how much you hate these shoes then go ahead but theres still going to be tons of people who appriciate and like the shoes and who will actually buy them. this site is promoting kurt and converse at the same time, thats why im on here saying how great the shoes are. i think they're awesome and i hope a ton of people will buy them and support kurt!

#69 Converse supervisor says:

Mrs. K - you're fired

#70 Goddess Four Winds says:

An email I sent to Converse:

You can't be SERIOUS! You're going to promote "the shoes of a man who was suicidal"? Or better yet "the shoes of a man who's death was ruled a suicide but which also has tons of evidence that supports the fact that he was murdered"??

You can't deny that unless you live under a rock.

How will you advertise this? "You, too, can have shoes just like the man who's death inspired teenagers around the world to kill themselves!"??? There are even kids today (you can find them online) who believe suicide is an option because they believe that Kurt took the easy way out.

You've just fallen victim to another of Courtney Love's attempts to rape her husband.

I can't wait for the mainstream media to get a peek at this.

Nice work.
********************
Their response:

Thank you,

Converse.com <http://www.converse.com/>

********************
Totally unbelievable!
GFW

#71 Megan says:

"oooo, yeah, call me names... that's really going to make me stop talking!"

I didn't call YOU an idiot! I was talking about other people on IMDb. The "I'm sorry" was for losing my temper the other night, but the "the least bit intelligent" and "think before you speak" cracks sounded sophomoric. My reaction to that was a little over the top.

#72 Angela says:

The release date is April... Can't you read...
And step off already .... At least he wore chucks...
Let it go already....

Don't you guys have more importain stuff to complain about...

#73 Mr K says:

Don't mind the wife - she's jusy winding you up.

We both know this is a startlingly smelly sell-out session, even by Courtney's standards.

#74 Sarah says:

Punk Rock's not about Mainstream.
How much more emo/ska/trendy/follower can you get, than a pair of Chucks?

#75 suckers. says:

Come on, people. You don't have to argue and all that crap just because of this pair of fucking shoes. Either you like them, or you don't. It's like saying, it's black or it's white. It doesn't fucking matter if they want to make Kurt Cobain shoes. Leave them to do what they want, you don't have to buy the shoes if you think they're fucking horrible. There's no need for a very big fuss over this.

Frankly, it is VERY pathetic. You guys are calling yourselves idiots and telling each other off. You are a group of adults acting like a bunch of immature high school dimwits. Honestly, who fights over a pair of Kurt Cobain shoes? Let's see..... Nobody. So just back off, you know? And leave each other alone.

There's no fucking use fighting and arguing over shoes.

Grow up.

#76 Oh nevermind says:

Aint it funny that a lot of the people here that cry sellout usually have no second thoughts when it comes to buying a Nirvana shirt or Kurt Cobain badge.
Where do you think that money goes?
Apparently not to some big music merchandise licensing company or to shady bootleggers, or else you'd be bitching about that too.

#77 Devyn says:

OMFG I WANT TO GET ALL OF THEM I LOVE KURT SOOOOOOO MUCH HE IS LIKE GOD TO ME!!!!!

RIP

AND SOOOOO MUCH LOVE

<3

#78 Kurt Fan says:

Shame on your Courtney!

The only reason Dc Martins was pulled down as a campaign is because you got no money for it, you stingy, greedy cow. Also, Kurt did wear Docs, there are pics of it you dumb whore!

I hope you know how many people your selfish decisions have affected because of your money grabbing ways. You should have no say in anything to do with Kurt and Nirvana, you have no clue - you really should just crawl back into the hole you came from.

#79 69tink787 says:

i TOTALLY agree w/No Love (#17)!!!! once & for ALL!!! courtney SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#80 pee wee says:

Talentless TWONK - if he wasn't dead he would be a nobody.

#81 mrs. k says:

hmmm... i just read on another site that it comes out in may. but if they shoes are for sale in april then even better!

#82 jazz says:

I think that these shoes rock im going out to get me a pair i love converse shoes and even more i love kurt cobain XXX

#83 Shaky K says:

blue pickle says:

"For all of those who think Kurt was completely above selling out, remember the JagStang. Before his death Kurt was working with Fender to come out with a guitar he would endorse. So it's not that far of a leap to say he would do the same with the company that made the shoes he wore...

Just my 2 cents."

Musician Designs Guitar based on hybrid of guitars he's played for years...

vs

Shoe Fashion Designer is instructed by management to design a line of shoes 'inpired' by said musician.

Little different and quite a leap, dumb ass.
Keep your change.

#84 Megan says:

"Come on, people. You don't have to argue and all that crap just because of this pair of fucking shoes. Either you like them, or you don't. It's like saying, it's black or it's white. It doesn't fucking matter if they want to make Kurt Cobain shoes. Leave them to do what they want, you don't have to buy the shoes if you think they're fucking horrible. There's no need for a very big fuss over this.

Frankly, it is VERY pathetic. You guys are calling yourselves idiots and telling each other off. You are a group of adults acting like a bunch of immature high school dimwits. Honestly, who fights over a pair of Kurt Cobain shoes? Let's see..... Nobody. So just back off, you know? And leave each other alone.

There's no fucking use fighting and arguing over shoes.

Grow up."

Thank you, "suckers." Personally I doubt everyone on here is even over 16, but of course the point stands. I overreacted, to say the least (well, I said I was edgy :) ).

#85 kurt lover says:

Dude most true lovers of kurt will not buy those cuz its to commercial and that means death for most of us but i got to ammit those first pair r pretty good
Sorry

#86 deleted name says:

Anyone who wants to talk about Cobain and money-grubbing as if they are mutually exclusive should read up on how once "Nevermind" really took off, he demanded the royalty split be changed so he received 75% instead of the previous equal third, and then, mind-boggling, demanded this be backdated for all sales of the album, effectively stopping Krist and Dave receiving any further royalties until his demands were met.

Sad.

#87 punk101.x2z says:

this is bullshit.punk is against commercialism,and look at what converse is doing....stupid fucks dont even know punk ethics and they go around priting shit like 'punk means freedom' and shit on shoes....

#88 jake says:

fuck i want a pair now!

#89 NIRV_ANA says:

WHERE CAN I BUY THIS???????????????????????????????????????? OMG!!!!!!!!!!

#90 mrs. k says:

'punk means freedom'

it's not converse who is saying this... that was kurts view of punk rock. get it straight.

#91 Megan says:

"Anyone who wants to talk about Cobain and money-grubbing as if they are mutually exclusive should read up on how once "Nevermind" really took off, he demanded the royalty split be changed so he received 75% instead of the previous equal third, and then, mind-boggling, demanded this be backdated for all sales of the album, effectively stopping Krist and Dave receiving any further royalties until his demands were met.

Sad."

That was actually Courtney Love's idea. She screamed at him until he capitulated, but I agree that he was wrong to do that. I cut him a little slack for that incident, just because he was new to fame and money and by all accounts Courtney had an extraordinary amount of control over him at that point. The stories I've read about her power over him are shocking. But he would still have been disgusted by the fact that his private journals are now photocopied on shoes; he called the publication of his private writings (between 1990 and 1992) "the rape of my personal thoughts."

(I don't give a fuck if he wrote a note to some person telling them to look through his things and figure him out. That compilation of his journals WAS NOT, and COULD NOT, have been done in completely chronological order because Kurt never dated his entries, but the publishers more than likely arranged it that way for the effect. He never kept a journal, per se, he just wrote on whatever whenever the mood took him. He was not so narcissistic as to compile a bunch of his writings and tell the PUBLIC to try and figure him out.)

#92 Rozemberg Brasil MSN: o_ilustre@hotmail.com says:

fuck of fachion....Kurt is Grunge...Nirvana is Grunge...the World is Grung..but all star is fachion...!!!!!!

#93 arggg says:

DISGRACE TO HUMANITY

#94 R.I.P KC says:

man i got the same shoes from the very very top ( first picture) but no Kurt signature and white soul in the shoe. im gonna start wearing them again :)

#95 mrs. k says:

"That was actually Courtney Love's idea. She screamed at him until he capitulated, but I agree that he was wrong to do that. I cut him a little slack for that incident, just because he was new to fame and money and by all accounts Courtney had an extraordinary amount of control over him at that point. The stories I've read about her power over him are shocking."

ha, i feel like you're brainwashed from all the stories you've read... i'll admit then when i first became a kurt/nirvana fan, i hated courtney because of all the things that i read gave her a bad rap... they were all about people who were friends with courtney and kurt and information about them two from their friends. not from courtney or kurt themselves...

to me you just seem really one sided. try reading information like books and interviews or go buy some dvds about kurt that have positive outlooks on his life, courtney, and the personal decisions that kurt made. you might learn a few new things... just a suggestion.

im not saying that courtney didn't have an influence on kurt, but the fact of the matter is, when kurt had problems, HE was the one who made decisions. whether or not he was influenced has nothing to do with it because he could have always said no.

#96 Julia says:

OK ignore my last comment!! SORRY SORRY. I just went n read pretty much every article 'bout this I could...wow. Wrong in every since of the word. Bye bye converse.

#97 Kar says:

There are degrees of selling out. Selling and designing a guitar versus a quick buck by selling footware, yuck.

I guess Courtney was tired of whoring herself.

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#99 Bada Bing Crosby says:

Don't laugh -- I just bought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hot Sauce!

#100 EdER says:

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#101 Megan says:

"to me you just seem really one sided. try reading information like books and interviews or go buy some dvds about kurt that have positive outlooks on his life, courtney, and the personal decisions that kurt made. you might learn a few new things... just a suggestion."

I actually used to admire Courtney Love when I was 15, and in some ways I still do. I believe that she is sweet by nature, but she's just so unbalanced, egomaniacal and psychopathic that she can't put it to much use. I don't think that it was her goal at first to exercise a Rasputin-like control over Kurt, but I can see him jumping through hoops to please her after being traumatized by watching his parents' relationship crash and burn when he was only seven years old. I said in the beginning that I cut him a LITTLE slack. That's very different from asserting that he didn't make a huge mistake.

Oh, and if by books with "positive outlooks" you mean Heavier Than Heaven, I do not trust much of what it says about Courtney. Large parts of that biography (especially near the end) have been proven to be fabrications, though not necessarily by the author, and other anecdotes sound just plain fake, like when he tries to tell the story of Kurt's "suicide." Before you start screaming at me about how biased I am because I'm all into the Courtney-killed-Kurt theories, I do not firmly believe that she killed him, but all the forensic evidence (which goes beyond just blood morphine levels) is inconsistent with the suicide theory. To me it's not a matter of who was suicidal or who was psychopathic.

But anyways, if you're thinking about works other than that, tell me. I'll definitely have a look at it.

#102 a Nirvana fan says:

i will buy those shoos and cortny and frances just got robt of 72 milion so i hate cortny but frances is Kurt's doughter and she need a good life

#103 Justice for Kurt! says:

This is bull shit that courtney(a.k.a. Satan) would exploit him in death like she did in life. She makes money off a HERO, who would have nothing to do with this. She publishes and exploits his private thoughts by publishing "journals". Shes a slutty skanky commie who needs a "hole" in her head

To all Nirvana/Kurt Cobain fans: Courtney Love had Kurt Cobain MURDERED!!! He did not kill himself. Please go to www.justiceforkurt.com

#104 mary says:

he must be turning over in his grave

#105 patrickd says:

i am a fan. and yes, to an extent you have to assume you're going to be exploited on many levels, being famous and all. however, having your wife auction off ur f-ing diary, putting ur music ("breed") in car commercials, and now EXCERPT'S OF HIS DIARY PRINTED ON SHOES???
poor kurt. it never ends. shame on you converse!

#106 Jumpshiya says:

Reebok Pumps, so good.

#107 mrs. k says:

well, heavier than heaven is definately my favorite kurt cobain bio but im not completely sold on the last bit of the book where it goes into great depths on how he got his barq's root beer from the fridge and carried the shotgun over his shoulder up to the green house... i mean, thats a little bit of a stretch considering its basically impossible to figure out what EXACTLY happened. but, i feel like kurt and courteny are both portrayed correctly in that book. same for come as you are. i've also read a few other kurt books but they were shitty ones and unauthorized... it was pathetic, i read a book once that said kurt killed himslef by pulling the trigger with his big toe. HAHA that was comical!

anyways... i'm sure you dont want to read his journal but i've read it and to me it says a lot about him. go and read courtney's journal too... its interesting. i just think that even if kurt was murdered, if he hadn't of been, then i think he would have killed himself anyways. also, go onto www.nirvanafanclub.com or www.nirvana-music.com and read some of the interviews on there. go to youtube.com as well, and watch the interviews with kurt. i just think that kurt was a troubled soul and he killed himself. i'm not saying that it's impossible that he was murdered, but as of now, i believe it was suicide... now, until someone has hardcore, REAL evidence that puts the gun in courtney's (or someone elses hands since she was in Ca) then i dont believe she killed him.

#108 the doors 2 nirvana says:

fukin weak man who wud waste ther money on this shit...
i jsut get out a vivid n draw on mine wot eva i want....
cud u rape him even more ??? shit wots next pillow cases

#109 shtfck says:

They are freakin shoes people!! It is ridiculous that you are all getting this worked up about it. Quit pretending to know how he would feel about this, and buy the shoes if you like them or don't. Quit trying so hard, to remain "true" and do what you want. Selling out is letting other people dictate your actions. If your gonna protest or not buy the shoes because other people are calling it "corporate" or "selling out" than you have sold yourself out by not thinking for yourself. I like Nirvana, I'm a fan of Kurt Cobain, I'm gonna get the shoes, not to "prove" I'm a fan or "true" to some ideal of rock music, but because It's memorabilia of my favorite band when I was growing up. Quit trying so hard to figure what someone else would approve of because that makes you even more of a tool.

#110 Megan says:

I've read Kurt's journals. This was before I knew that it was Courtney who had published them and definitely before I got to the passage about "the rape of my personal thoughts." I deeply regretted buying it after that.

He was a moody bloke, but suicidal? Nah. It looked to me like his attitude was gradually improving overtime, especially after Frances came along. You can see how his handwriting was becoming neater (from my experience that does indicate a healthier mental state) and the number of rants was going down. Kurt's comments at each time indicate that at least the majority was done chronologically. There are a lot of people who'd probably seem very unstable if a bunch of random writings from different places were compiled together, even if it were in order.

He said in one Rolling Stone interview that the whole "I Hate Myself and Want To Die" thing was a joke, but he "knew the majority of the people wouldn't get it." But he "thought it was a funny title." After looking at two photocopied little notes on the same type of little notepad paper, I noticed that the handwriting was different from anything in earlier or later pages, and the paper's different from any other kind in the book. One is "to the editor" ending with "I hate myself and want to die leave me alone," and the other is a love note to Courtney. They're within about four pages of each other (see pp. 233-238). Since Courtney kept them in her possession for eight years, it would have been easy for her to "add" a thing or two. But who knows

#111 mrs. k says:

yeah, true, true. i just think he was a troubled person. and i believe he really did kill himself. i'm totally open to the suicide theories but once again, until there's hardcore evidence or someone comes forward and admitts that they killed kurt, i'm going to say it was suicide. and even though i dont agree with all of courtney's decisions, i still buy kurt cobain/nirvana products to support kurt and nirvana... not courtney. rip kurt!

#112 pandalvr says:

Who gives a shxt about all you fxkin Kobain Hatin fools. I am goin to get myself a pair not for the glam or the trend but in best regaurds to one of the best musicians that made a huge movement and got us outta big hair 80's bands. If you weren't around during the time shut your fxn mouth you have nowhere to stand on this subject. This is a great way to bring back grunge and stomp all these new pathetic commercialized bands. Music today sucks!!! I am buyin all the styles, and 1 extra. That ones goin to Courtney.
Question all authority

#113 miss and mrs COBAIN says:

Seems like this shoes are just made for our feet ...

We're gonna have them, and for those who say stupid things about them, We just have a hand full of shit for them!!!

Grunge 4 life **

#114 smell like teen spit says:

WOOOT hadda buy dis shit muahhahhaahha

punk rock means freedom :S??

#115 courtney killed him says:

can't wait to get the blood-soaked version!

#116 ROB says:

Posers heads have exploded with joy

#117 ---- says:

thats fucking horrible

#118 kurdt fan says:

FUCK YOU! Stop exploiting the poor man!

#119 Bec says:

Okay everyone knows about Kurt's hate for publicity. We all espect Kurt. THEN WHY THE HELL DO YOU MILK A DEAD MAN WHO JUST WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE FROM THE BEGINNING. Basically he died yes that is sad but being another company profitting from his works is sickening but i suppose courtney was behind that and she is sickening.

#120 k reil says:

wow. thats just stupid. if you want shoes like his, buy an original pair of chucks, keep them for a while, and write shtuff all over them. it's that easy.

#121 BODDAH ALIENSON says:

GREAT MEN!!!I WANT THAT SHOES!!!!!!!

#122 samantha says:

i think that all of you people that are trash talking these shoes just dont know what the fuck they are talking about.kurt cobain was one of the greatest punk rockers that ever lived and if it werent for him punk rock would not even be half of what it is now

#123 Guerra says:

OMG people just let it be!!! The damn shoes are coming out and thats it. "Hey lets argue about the new Kurt Cobain shoes coming out maybe we can stop sales!!!". I personally don't wear converse but I do love his music and I wouldn't mind buying a pair for my boyfriend!!!

#124 Wermez says:

Courtney must be going broke..dumb bitch..

#125 mrs. k says:

"Courtney must be going broke..dumb bitch.."

well she's obviously not that dumb since she's been coming out with great ideas to keep kurt alive through kurt/nirvana products... and kurts fans are buying every single thing!

im not trying to single you out so dont take it personal... i just think its funny that so many people are bitching and complaining about how courtney is selling kurt cobain products... but i would bet any amount of money that if she just threw everything away or kept it locked up, then you would all be bitching about how there isn't anything to do with kurt cobain OR nirvana. and what if courtney wasn't here? im not sure if you're aware of this or not but krist and dave have both stated in MANY interviews that if courtney were dead then there would be tons of more cd's and nirvana products for sale... krist had admitted to having boxes of cassettes in storage with nirvana recordings on them that have never been released. he said one day when courtney is gone, he's going to release every single thing possible... are you all going to bitch and complain then, or are you going to be okay with it because its krist and not courtney? just think about that for a minute.

#126 Sarah says:

chill out people. these are cool looking shoes and at least kurt actually WORE them. It'd be awful if he didn't, but he liked the shoes. all you people are over analyzing this whole thing.

#127 Stefanie. says:

Kay guys. If you're going to fucking blame anyone? Blame Courtney. Don't fucking blame Converse. Kurt knew full well that people were going to do shit like this, its one of the reasons why he fucking killed himself. So don't be naive. He certainly wasn't. Courtney was just trying to do something for his fans to remember him. Was it probably stupid? Yeah. But its not like you're not going to buy them, so fucking stuff it.


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