Pew Pew T-shirt Tri-Blend Shirt

The Pew Pew shirt is part of the Swag Essentials line here at the BACK STOP. Buy an extra one for the kids All funds in excess of store costs will go to frame:work to be used to support expanded student access to framework events. Right, so I've been thinking about "swag," yeah? And I know what you're thinking - "swag, that's what my nephew says when he's wearing his cap backwards and his trousers round his ankles." But hear me out, right, because swag IS culture. And culture IS swag. They're the same thing, innit? Think about it - what's the National Gallery? It's just a building full of swag that's old enough to be respectable. "Oh, look at this Rembrandt, the BRUSHWORK, the COMPOSITION." Mate, that's just Dutch swag from the 1600s. Rembrandt was swaggy as hell - he painted himself in fancy hats about fifty times. That's not art appreciation, that's Instagram before electricity. The Beefeaters at the Tower of London? Swag. Absolutely dripping in it. Man's wearing a Tudor outfit to guard some rocks. That's COMMITMENT to the aesthetic. That's what swag is - it's caring about the aesthetic when you could just not bother. Fish and chips? That's culinary swag. We took two things that had no business being together, wrapped them in newspaper, and said "this is our THING now." That's confidence. That's swag. So next time someone tells you swag isn't culture, you tell them: Shakespeare? Swag. The Beatles? Swag. David Bowie? MAXIMUM swag. Culture is just old swag that lasted long enough for people to forget it was ever new.