Less than a month ago, the Doc Martens adverts featuring Kurt Cobain doing it on a cloud went into heavy rotation. Then Courtney Love got offended that Kurt’s image was exploited or some such nonsense, so the ads were pulled. What Courtney was really angry about was that she wasn’t making any money off said exploitation of her dead husband, but now she’s happily making money by licensing a similarly tasteless use of Kurt’s likeness on lunchboxes:
Courtney Love has infuriated Kurt Cobain loyalists after she sold his face to lunchbox manufacturers.
According to Variety magazine the 42-year-old has reportedly licensed National Entertainment Collectables Association (NECA), allowing them to make lunchboxes, action figures and even small liquor flask key chains with the singer’s image on.
This may actually be old news pushed into orbit by a new license or a need for publicity, because we found the action figure seven months ago. Did Courtney already spend the $50 million she received by selling 25 percent of the Nirvana catalogue last year?




















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WTF? Are there really that many 6- and 7-year olds into Nirvana that they need lunch boxes with a heroin addict’s face on them?
[...] apparently licensing Kurt Cobain’s image to anyone whose checks cash. Classy. Posted by Ian S. [...]
Courtney is all we need to know to that poor Kurt was one crazy motherf*cker
Will the lunch boxes come pre-packed with hypodermic needles, rubber hoses, cotton balls and spoons? Cuz that would be awesome. For me, I mean since I always forget to pack at least one of those things in my kid’s lunchbox… just the way my mom would forget to make sure my Velvet Underground lunchbox wasn’t fully kitted out before she sent ME off to grade school.
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