Smiths sheets at urbanoutffiters.com
posted by davidt on Friday August 26 2005, @09:00AM

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Last Night...Sheet - UrbanOutfitters.com

Take Morrissey to bed with you, let him cradle you as you dream, and let his words ring as true as ever, printed in a large cursive script on the topsheet. Sheet set includes fitted and flat sheets as well as pillowcases.

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depressing (Score:0, Insightful)
lame
Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @09:33AM (#176593)
  • Re:depressing by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday August 26 2005, @03:22PM
    Oh dear god (Score:2, Interesting)
    Moz will be turning in his four poster. Why do they have to sully The Smiths legacy with such crass merchandise?
    However, I must admit that the line 'take Morrissey to bed with you' caught my attention. The rest of it just made me cringe.
    I say we march on the factory and demand they cease production.
    Surely Moz has some say how his lyrics are used.
    I have one for the designer: 'Don't plagarise or take on loan'.
    Mozzersgirl -- Friday August 26 2005, @09:54AM (#176601)
    (User #14229 Info)
    But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
    • Re:Oh dear god by momus (Score:1) Friday August 26 2005, @10:13AM
      • Re:Oh dear god by Anonymous (Score:1) Friday August 26 2005, @02:21PM
        • Ha ha ha! by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday August 27 2005, @12:09AM
      the colour scheme (Score:2, Funny)
      does urban out fitters think that all morrissey fans are ladys or insanly camp?
      irishgirlenglisheart -- Friday August 26 2005, @11:07AM (#176615)
      (User #14606 Info)
      *sigh* (Score:1)
      PINK???? Must they be PINK????
      Ah and yeah... I agree it's a pretty lazy "pattern" or whatever you'd like to call it. I'm not too impressed with these. And seriously... PINK?? I can't stand pink!! *sigh*

      ~Amy~
      Cinnamon -- Friday August 26 2005, @11:08AM (#176616)
      (User #131 Info)
      ~Oh, to be the cream!~
        Lame, yes, but I seem to remember... (Score:0)
        ...Morrissey selling "Last Night I Dreamt" pillow cases during a certain 2000 concert tour...
        Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @11:11AM (#176617)
        polyester blend (Score:0)
        So tacky! They must've used the worst font and color possible.

        I hate to admit it but I'd probably buy them for the novelty value, though not at $70 a set.
        Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @11:59AM (#176623)
          I can't wait (Score:0)
          to cover them in f**k. If you pull down
          the Blanket there is a bullseye where you
          shoot your load.
          Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @12:02PM (#176624)
          What would Jesus do? (Score:0)
          "Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!""

          Unfortunately, there's no Jesus in the Smiths.

          Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @01:00PM (#176631)
          Oh come on... (Score:2, Funny)
          everyone stop being so cynical, think about it what better way to spend an evening?
          you could come back from watching "some girls are bigger..." at the theatre, make yourself a nice cup of tea in your ebay morrissey teapot then take off your morrissey jewellery and climb into your morrissey bed covers!
          i am of course being sarcastic. this just reminds me too much of those westlife and boyzone pillows you used to get free with smash hits, yuk
          xXx_Mrs_Moz_xXx -- Friday August 26 2005, @02:02PM (#176638)
          (User #14395 Info | http://www.camdram.net/shows/06/evening_with_gary_lineker )
          "The Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich, Samuel Morse invented the Morse Code & Plato invented the plate"
          Ah... (Score:0)
          The perfect sheets for the single, unlovable, female Moz fan... ha ha.

          But, in all honesty I love them. And the color is pinkishly perfect! Hehe.
          Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @04:54PM (#176667)
          Uncornered segment of the market now cornered (Score:0)
          Morrissey fans with terrible taste.
          Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @05:19PM (#176669)
            light blue would have been preferrable.. (Score:0)
            i consider myself as fey/metrosexual as the next moz crazy straight boi, but not even i could justify pink sheets.. i think a slightly more masculine font/blue toned look would have had much broder appeal. oh well.. if i stroll into a date's room and find these sheets i guess it might be a good sign.

            http://www.dinklink.com/ [dinklink.com]
            "dating, with no kids attached" (TM)
            Anonymous -- Friday August 26 2005, @05:28PM (#176672)
            Oh mother, I can feel, the sheets... (Score:1)
            ...pulling over my head.

            Jesus fucking wept.
            david t, this is a great site, but this bullshit really should be posted elsewhere (such as the rubbish chute). I have moderator points and if I could have junked this whole news story I would have done. If the website must carry this crap stick it in the marketplace where it belongs.
            Hairdresser on Fire -- Friday August 26 2005, @07:32PM (#176682)
            (User #1016 Info)
            "The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!" Allen Ginsberg.
            Good News... (Score:1)
            ...What a stroke of luck ('stroke' being the operative word!) because my own bed sheets were in a hell of a mess this morning. Covered in some sort of sticky, milky-white goo...
            Jealous of Youth -- Saturday August 27 2005, @01:05AM (#176705)
            (User #14655 Info)
            "so many women, my head should be spinning. Ah, but no..."
            It's really laughable... (Score:1)
            a hahahahaha....ahahahaha...ahahahaha...ohhh.
            Cole Berlin -- Saturday August 27 2005, @07:05AM (#176719)
            (User #13010 Info)
              Pink Sheets, Red Company (Score:2, Interesting)
              According to Buyblue.com, during the last election cycle, 94.12% of the political contributions made by UrbanOutfitters top executives went to Republican candidates. This is a very conservative company. It is offensive, to say the least, that they are profiting from Morrissey's name and intellectual property. Surely, as a political being, Moz would object. Anyway, you can contact them through the Buyblue website.

              Oh, how ridiculous this all is...
              Anaesthesine -- Saturday August 27 2005, @07:08AM (#176720)
              (User #14203 Info)
              We will burn that bridge when we come to it...
              Much more than sheets (Score:2, Funny)
              Oh, God, I won't even dare to imagine what other pink items they might come up with for the Morrissey''s collection!... Scary even to think of it...(listen to "The Harsh True" and maybe you'll understand...)

              But I'm not totally against Moz products!

              1. Imagine a clock radio, which is also a tea brewer (those two-in-one marvelous things we all adore), playing "Everyday is like Sunday", and, when tea is ready, it says, "share some grease tea with me" (would you drink it?)

              2. A black Satin shirt (and a red silk robe!) with "Jack the Ripper" imprinted on it for your special dates. Buut, if your date gets scared and runs away, and leaves you sad..

              3. You don't want to also feel like the world is treating a Moz fan like a retard, by comdemnig you to dispose only of this pinky bed set. You may want a giant pillow, with arms, while you listen to "take me in your arms and love me"...comes also with a detachable quiff to help with realistic effects here...

              4. A line of Harley Davidson motorcycles called "Lazy Dykes", with a sturdy engine to justify spraying your legs wide (a Moz indigo burn on your arm included!)

              5. Throw away your rubber ducky, and buy your rubber Mozzy now! (more details come with the manual).

              See? Capitalism is crazy. But indulgent of human needs. I can see someone thinking of using something to shut my mouth good and proper. Forever! If you happen by the way to find any of these products above available, it was just mere coïncidence!
              Mrs. Woolf -- Saturday August 27 2005, @07:37AM (#176724)
              (User #14157 Info)
              another false alarm (Score:1)
              i just want some people to know that two years ago I had the idea to make pillowcases for my morrissey friends with that exact same tagline on them. I had the idea first. and urbanoutfitters (that over-priced, wanker store) copied my idea and turned it to shit. Pink? morrissey would vomit in his boredom.
              Gurlfriend in a Coma -- Saturday August 27 2005, @08:16AM (#176732)
              (User #7011 Info)
              eewwww. . . (Score:1)
              tasteless! why can't it be like the old days when we didn't need catch phrase's and lyrics on our bedding and apparel.
              organicsamurai <spw321@yahoo.com> -- Saturday August 27 2005, @09:47AM (#176737)
              (User #10089 Info)
              . . .and if I ever wanted to cry, then I will because I can.
                Copyright? (Score:1)
                I don't understand how all of these products (including the jewerly using lyrics in the other story) can take lyrics that are copyrighted. Either they are making these products without permission or much worse Moz has given them permission! I think the sheets are tasteless.
                working-class zero -- Saturday August 27 2005, @09:55AM (#176738)
                (User #9668 Info)
                • Re:Copyright? by Bill (Score:1) Saturday August 27 2005, @11:45AM
                  • Re:Copyright? by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday August 28 2005, @05:53PM
                    Oh dear... (Score:1)
                    trite
                    hand in glove * -- Monday August 29 2005, @09:32PM (#176939)
                    (User #827 Info)
                    Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
                      well... (Score:1)
                      It would seem that the guys of Moz Tour have decided to branch out. Who encouraged them by buying their tacky products? Come on, own up- this is all your fault!
                      moderndayphilistine -- Tuesday August 30 2005, @10:44AM (#176996)
                      (User #13204 Info)
                        Better quote would have been ... (Score:2, Funny)
                        Let me get my hands on your mammary glands.

                        kissmyshades -- Tuesday August 30 2005, @11:50AM (#177006)
                        (User #12542 Info)
                        Bathmat (Score:2, Interesting)
                        I'd always fancied that cool There Is A Light bathmat from the Suedehead video, wonder if they do that anywhere? ;-)
                        Mozster -- Wednesday August 31 2005, @06:41AM (#177071)
                        (User #6823 Info)
                        Go to waste in the wrong arms, still running round.............
                        • Re:Bathmat by *puella* (Score:0) Wednesday August 31 2005, @01:08PM
                          • Re:Bathmat by Ben Budd (Score:1) Friday September 02 2005, @06:35AM
                            • Re:Bathmat by *puella* (Score:0) Friday September 02 2005, @07:27AM
                          buyer (Score:0)
                          well i know i am going to receive much slack for this but i was the person who had these made for urban outfitters. i am the buyer for the website & catalog...so these were not sold in the stores. i was given a project when we hit an overstock issue in solid sheet sets. i was told by my boss to contact dye houses & print houses. by the time i had all of my sheets dyed & printed 400 units of pink sheets were found in our warehouse. at this point i had tie dyed, dip dyed & printed graphics so i thought hey why not have some lines/sayings printed on them as well. being a huge smiths fan & remembering seeing the pillowcase that were sold at the morrissey shows in 2000 i got the idea. it was all in fun & to be honest since most of our customers are so young i didn't think any of them would have a clue. anyway, i apparently crossed a line & pissed many people off...which i find hysterical. the people on this site take everything way to literally & seriously. so many angry, angry people out there...
                          *puella* -- Wednesday August 31 2005, @01:06PM (#177120)
                          (User #11105 Info)
                            Re: If you're for real ... (Score:2, Insightful)
                            can you crib a line without incurring any legal flack?
                            I'm not angry (after all, in the great scheme of things, it'd be daft to get mad about such a trivial matter) But I just think the whole merchandise market is a bit cringeworthy, contributing to the evils of mass consumerism (not wishing to sound like a hippy or anything). Ok, i wear badges and stick posters around my room, i'd even make something to wear bearing a line of Moz's, if the line meant that much to me (but the point is, that'd be unique)
                            However, there seems to be something inherently wrong about throwing Morrissey's heartfelt lines around so casually.
                            Sorry if you feel differently; I've no doubt over your fan credentials. It's just that Morrissey and his words mean a great deal to many of us.
                            If I can liken him to mr 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' for a second, this sort of thing is akin to putting 'We'll go no more a roving' on a tent or a pair of gaiters ... it may be done, but it sullies the intention of the writer and the meaning of the line.
                            Anyways, you're brave for posting here ... good luck to you.
                            Mozzersgirl -- Wednesday August 31 2005, @02:07PM (#177130)
                            (User #14229 Info)
                            But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
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                            • Re:buyer by whocares (Score:1) Thursday September 01 2005, @08:42AM
                              • Re:buyer by Hello Indie (Score:1) Monday September 05 2005, @09:10AM


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