WOULD YOU PAY $700 FOR THIS?
Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 2:30pm by Axl Rosenberg
Thanks to The Deciblog for pointing us towards the website of Pierre Blanc, a gentlemen who makes heavy metal vases like the one you see above.
Seriously.
So here’s the thing: I don’t know the fuck would buy this as anything other than a joke – except that they cost 500 euros each, which, by current coversion rates, is roughly $678 (and that’s before you factor in tax, shipping, etc.), which would make it one of the costliest jokes in history, especially when you factor in the price-to-laughs ratio, which wouldn’t be all that great. Although, to be fair, Kiss vases are only 300 euros, and Misfits vases are only 200 euros. Which, again, to be fair, is still WAY TOO MUCH FUCKING MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS PIECE OF SHIT VASE.
So, to review: if you’re rich and have terrible taste, you can blow $700 on a Metallica vase. You’re also probably the douche who had front row seats to the last Metallica tour and was actually excited when they played “Broken, Beat and Scarred.”
So maybe Blanc knows who his target audience is after all.
-AR
Only if they put Cliff Burton in it. Sorry, bad taste…
Metallica sues everybody under the sun but I think Lars Ulrich would like these.
Um, no.
Of course i’d pay 700$… If I won the lottery first :)
The only thing more metal than a metallica vase would be a heavy metal urn… that I would pay 700 Washingtons for.
Hell no I wouldn’t pay $700 for this…I’d pay $1000. I want an In Flames “Whoracle” vase!
It looks like he just slapped decals on some old vases…
@Mutt Weiler
…hahahaha!
But seriously, fuck the vases.
oh hell yeah
WTF? What do Victorians in a flower garden have to do with Metallica? Is this scene mentioned in a song on Death Magnetic? I just don’t get this at all. Now if it were a scene from a famous Metallica song, say Lars killing himself with Fade to Black written underneath, I would get that.
Maybe there is some art history that I am forgetting. Maybe the guy and the girl represent the transition from thrash metal – symbolized by the man giving the rose – to rock which is symbolized by the woman. The flower is Cliff, because of his tragic death after which the band began their commericialized transformation. The blue shirt represents Ride the Lightning and the orange cape represents Master of Puppets. The woman’s pink dress represents Load.
Oh man, and I’m not even drunk yet!
hahaha!
good god, I started to laugh until I cried when I saw that. It has no sense at all.
I wouldn’t pay for this. and I wouldn’t mind listenind to Broken, Beat and Scarred. I actually like that song a lot, and the whole album as well.
I might take a shit in it. That is the only thing to do with anything that has Metellica’s name on it.
Are you kidding me. this is the most stupid thing i have ever seen. Don’t get me wrong i love Metallica a lot ,but this is ridiculous $700 for this and dosent ever have a picture of the band on it.
oh c’mon…what’s more metal than a cheesy vase?
It’s a known fact all scandinavian death/black metal bands have ‘em
and keep their keys, change and severed body parts in them
This coulda been a photo caption contest photo