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Just What Shirt Exactly Was Thurston Moore Wearing on Jimmy Fallon Last Night?

By Zach Baron, Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 11:30AM
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Categories: Jimmy Fallon, Sonic Youth, TV, rockstar fashion

That'd be a Visitor-manufactured t-shirt lifting the porno cover art from Mokinox's Im Your Chair CD-R, which--when not obscured by a guitar and some squeamish TV cameras--looks like this:

mokinox1.jpg

Mokinox is the one-off noise project of Chris Habib, designer, filmmaker, and Sonic Youth buddy from way back when (his work is featured prominently in the traveling Sonic Youth retro Sensational Fix, currently at the Malmo Konsthall in Malmo, Sweden.) Visitor Design is his official professional outlet. And that is one gangster t-shirt to wear on national television. Not that you could really tell. Moore rocked it for SY's blindly tight version of "No Way" on Fallon's show last night, which was pretty gangster itself:

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Marc says:

Purdy sure you mean Fallon in that last sentence.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 12:03PM
Zach says:

Yikes, thanks Marc

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 12:06PM
Prurient says:

And how is this design "porno"?

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 1:39PM
NBS says:

gotta love when the head of hospital records, a place where you can buy a CD packaged in a ziploc bag full of feces, scoffs at a pornographic design for not being 'porno' enough

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 2:31PM
NBS says:

(at least i hope that's what happened)

Posted On: Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 2:32PM

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