Plagiarism so obvious that Jerry Only will probably sue them.

This brand , called Murder Apparel, was featured in my Facebook feed this morning for whatever reason and I had to do a double take at their True Crime And Wine shirt because they have lifted the image directly from The Misfits Die Die My Darling 12″ album cover. Did they actually think that people wouldn’t notice this? I mean seriously, how lazy and lame do you have to be to openly plagiarize a famous punk band’s record cover artwork? I owned a shirt with this cover over thirty years years so this brand sure as hell can’t claim that they were the first to use this image.

The original image.

I normally think that Jerry Only is an ass, but I honestly hope he sues the hell out of them for copyright infringement because it is just that obvious. If this ‘dark’ brand wants to sell ‘edgy’ clothes then they should be more original than openly copying a famous punk image. Plagiarism isn’t ‘dark’ or ‘edgy’, it’s boring as hell and not in any sort of way original. EDIT: I have contacted the company in question, asking them if they know that their shirt is a copy of a famous Misfits image. I will update this if I hear back from them.