Archive for April, 2008
Crystal Castles Caught Up in Artwork Controversy
Source: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50168-crystal-castles-caught-up-in-artwork-controversy
“If you’ve attended a Crystal Castles show in the last couple years, in between all the strobe flashes you may have encountered the image up there. Perhaps you saw it on a t-shirt, or, if you made it to one of the really early CC shows, on a 7″. Or maybe you picked up a copy of the “banned cover edition” of Crystal Castles’ debut LP that Last Gang Records was selling for a minute.
That image there was created by UK-born, Tokyo-dwelling artist Trevor Brown (link NSFW)– using Madonna’s likeness, of course. Here’s where things get sticky. According to Torontoist, the members of Crystal Castles, Alice Glass and Ethan Kath, allegedly found the image (without a credit) on a flyer a couple years ago. They took to using it on t-shirts and the aforementioned limited run 7″, under the assumption that if it got around enough, the artist behind it would step forward, and some kind of usage/payment agreement could be reached. Read more
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