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This installment is called Honey Pot.

Late last summer, someone on one of the music lists I subscribed to

posted a link for rock and roll t-shirts that were being sold at Barney's, a high-end department store.

I clicked and sure enough Barney's was selling distressed vintage t-shirts with logos from

Black Flag, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Cure, they were all super expensive.

Only one, the Van Halen shirt was under a hundred dollars.

And then, I noticed the Joy Division shirt. It's the classic white-on-black

image of radio waves. They used it on the cover for their 1979 album Unknown Pleasures. I think I paid $15 for this shirt

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