A few weeks back, we posted an image showing eery similarities between a new GAP shirt design and the classic Judas Priest album, Screaming For Vengeance . The GAP has since removed the design, as the link now points to something completely different. That's not stopping Rob Halford and company, who are considering a lawsuit.
In a new interview with The Quietus, Halford said this about the GAP fiasco:
“Well, it’s very naughty of them. They shouldn’t have done that and we’re investigating that right now because that’s intellectual property rights – we were never asked, neither was our label. Having said that, pushing the legal side of it to one side, its brilliant isn’t it? To think that something 30 odd years later is still striking enough to be a fashion moment – it’s a bit like when the vodka people [Absolut Vodka] did the British Steel label.
“The thing is with artwork is that I don’t think that you can underestimate its power. Like, you’ll see somebody walking down the street with a Cannibal Corpse T-shirt on, if you say to them: ‘Oh I love that band’ they’ll go: ‘What band?’ And if you say: ‘The T-shirt’ they’ll probably say: ‘Oh, I just like it!’ And I think that’s great, because again you’re making a visual, emotional connection with people; that’s what Screaming For Vengeance is doing all these years later.”
Do it, Rob! Take 'em for all they're worth!
[via Metal Insider]
