T-Shirt Hell Closing, Claims Not to be a Victim of the Economy

I’ve been a fan of
T-Shirt Hell (WARNING: A lot of not safe for work material here), and I’m not afraid to admit it. I’ve never ordered a t-shirt from them, but I’ve been amused and/or shocked by the t-shirts they’ve produced since 2001, and looked forward to their e-mail updates when new products arrived.

The founder (Sunshine Megatron, formerly known as Aaron Landau Schwarz) claims he’s not a victim of the awful economy, and claims to be selling more than 3,000 t-shirts a week. He instead says that he’s getting out because of the hate mail he’s been getting from consumers telling him his products are in bad taste.

And yeah, they are in bad taste. Which surprises me that he’s selling 3,000 t-shirts a week. Unless the market for offensive t-shirts is bigger than I realize.

Hey, I’m not a prude, and I have a pretty good since of humor. But I know I’m going to get my ass kicked on the street if I wore half the stuff that’s sold on T-Shirt Hell.

I can get away with wearing this one, I’m sure. Probably this one. The Disney police may arrest me for this one. Heck, I saw this one at Steve & Barry’s when they were still in business.

But that’s the problem. His shirts are meant to be taken as satire, and not to be takes seriously. And what’s funny to some people isn’t funny to everyone. Some see it as spreading hate (and yeah, at times, I’ve seen some of the t-shirt designs and said “that’s just wrong!”), others see Megatron as a hero.