The Melvins Nike shoes

[Joe Deutrom]

You've gotta buy the shoes from Skate Board shops.

Oh yes, the other "trendy" outpost: skateboard shops. How rad.

[Hank Hill]

If it's for real and endorsed by the Melvins - I'm buying the whole lot of them, size 11 . . .

[THE DON]

i cant afford them. ill just go to a swap meet and get some fakes there .

but what if they come with a cd or something?
and the box has some kool art? fuck i guess ill save up

[Vcavallo]

i just found someone writing this on some nike shoes forum (as sad as that is):

"Hey Phins, do you know any spots in DC/MD that carry SBs? I'm liking how those Melvins are sounding."

people really are just treating them as another style name of a nike line.  this is so fucking bizarre!  i can't think of any other band that has so much goddamn weirdness surrounding them.  i don't know about anyone else but this whole nike thing blows my mind.  nike is like one of the giant corporations of the planet (starbucks, mcdonalds, etc.) and the melvins, are well, you know...  first buzz is soloed-out on national television during a baseball game that someone happened to be taping, and now their name and album designs are being smacked all over NIKE sneakers, there is either a bend in the space-time continuum that is cause for blame for all the improbability, or it is some complicated mike patton get rich scam.

[Joe Deutrom]

Next on Oprah the Mellllllllllvvvvvvviiiiiiiinnnnssss!!!!

[(PAUL)]

http://melvinsvictoria.com/Melvins__Childrens_and_Ladies_/melvins__childrens_and_ladies_.html

[(PAUL)]

http://www.hypebeast.com/archives/2005/06/nike_dunk_melvi.php

[Chomas]

" first buzz is soloed-out on national television during a baseball game that someone happened to be taping"

haha, actually it happened at 2 different games

[Fantomastro]

this whole story reminds me about the band fishbone.
someday I realized at shopping, that fishbone was a new clothing company for young fashion with the same label etc.




okay, fishbone isn't such an individual name like melvins, so that could be mere chance. but ther's no doubt, that the melvins shoes were inspired from the band. even the appearance is the same

on a fishbone concert a few years ago, the singer asked the crowd, if someone has a fake "fishbone" t-shirt for him. a guy gave him his t-shirt, the singer burned it up and gave him a original fishbone t-shirt

[Vcavallo]

" first buzz is soloed-out on national television during a baseball game that someone happened to be taping"

haha, actually it happened at 2 different games

oh right!  even weirder!  the second wasn't taped though, was it?

[dontyoutellme]

kind of like releasing art or music on the unsuspecting.
it reminds of murakami's involvement with louis vuitton....
but thats not going to make me go out and buy an expensive bag that uses opressive labor - its going to make me go see a murakami exhibit or become more familiar with other works.
as far as the nike thing goes- i'll appreciate the ATTEMPT at design [can we all admit its mediocre in terms of graphics and planning?] but instead of buying a pair of nikes i'll see a couple of photos and move on. maybe writing melvins on your shoe carefully is just as effective because the sneaker design isnt revolutionary.
and yeah, what a honky shoe.

[Dog Tired]

3 times on tv for baseball...

[cellphone]

pretty sure these are just 'inspired' by the melvins if anything, the rest seem to just be random names.

[Hank Hill]

are currently going for $230 w/ 20 hours left -
its like a wierd dream.

[anaconda]

they aren't that cool. they're about 60$ cool, no more though..