T-Shirt Hell is a clothing shop. While I have featured a tee of theirs in the past I usually don’t bother looking – most of their shirts are pretty inflammatory (pun intended). But the same brash sensibilities that made them unworth a post here has also raised enough ire for them to close up shop. From TechCrunch:
You’d think that someone who sells tshirts with slogans like “It’s not gay if you beat them up afterwards” and “Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” would not only be prepared for a tidal wave of hate email, but would be able to handle it as well. Some people just won’t find these shirts funny, or understand the social messaging behind it.
But that doesn’t appear to be the case. After 8 years, the owner of T-Shirt Hell, Sunshine Megatron (formerly Aaron Landau Schwarz according to Wikipedia), says he is shutting down the site on February 10, 2009.
Most interestingly, Sunshine is not looking for purchasers. In a posted statement he says:
Attention any venture capitalists or independent investors/business assholes who are about to inquire about purchasing T-Shirt Hell. Don’t. You won’t do the company justice and I won’t take that chance. I’m putting it to sleep. It’s over.
That’s right, I’m crazy. I’m pulling the plug on a company I could have sold for millions. Why in the f* world would I do something so stupid? Because I can. I don’t care about money. This is the way I’ve always done things…my way.
Gotta admire the attitude, if not the sentiment. Goodbye Hell, we hardly knew ye.
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I’m glad it’s gone.
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