http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2006/05/...ohnny_cupcakes_opens_on_newbury.php

yeah, I read this on his site.
good for him.

yea it is good for him...
i wonder if he is ever gonna be back with on broken wings.

I doubt it. they aren't really playing a lot of the stuff that he was critical on. no mo' rap. in the last year + that he was working with them, he never looked like he wanted to be there, too busy dreaming of bombing dresden with cuppy cakes.

i can't believe this thread has been on return to the pit for over an hour and no one has made fun of it. you kids are off your game.

But first my hunger pains are stickin like duct tape.
Let's hit up magnolia and mack on some cup cakes.

THIS IS GAY.

I don't know.. follow your dreams or whatever. I tried to live off selling letters from the dead photos, but I lost my shirt!
I would have started a TYAG line, but since the member change everyweek, I couldn't keep the production line constantly changing

i can't believe a messageboard full of kids who'd murder eachother over the pronunication of Celtic Frost won't touch this thread. terrible.

No one on rttp would deny the blatant homosexuality of this.

broken wings still do one rap song!

on broken wings is shitty and if you pay 50 dollars for a shirt with a fucking cupcake on it, not only are you a loser, you could of bought 50 dollars worth of cupcakes and ate all of them

"eat all of them"

if you get there early you will get free gifts!

look at how tough wheeler is in his johnny cupcakes shirt.

what is he using $$ he got from suing urban outfitters for jacking his fuckin cupcake design?

I wonder if Johnny himself will be standing off to the side of his boutique spinnin the hot trax.

Goes to show how lame hardcore trendsters are. If Johnny Cakes wasnt in OBW, i dont think anyone would give a rats ass about his stupid ass shit

i heard a group of kids were going in there on opening day and going wipe their asses with some of the shirts. hilarious.

ill have to remember to shoot some yellow lazerbeams in the back corner of the store

xmikex said:

that's because i've only just seen this thread.

now, i very well may share some mutual friends with this dude and that's cool if he's making $$$ or getting his peter wet (i'm sure i lost some points with some people on account of the shaman bruce skate-the-planet fallout and i sure as fuck lost my shirt)...

but this is NOT emblematic of what i've come to know as HARDCORE.
it's actually quite to the contrary.
when i got into hardcore, you went to shows on friday and saturday nights because that's what you did - you weren't going to the big party or the football game.
before it was a fucking fashion show.
because it wasn't the fucking "in" thing to do.

and this shit... well, it fucking SICKENS me.

thank SATAN for Pale Horse. Fuck, I love Pale Horse.

Baseball bats and Cupcakes.....Now that is hardcore

better yet for only 33.99 you can get this wonderful shirt as modeled by the thug himself johnathan blake

look at them teeth.
or this one done by wheeler

hes so cool

dude all the little pre-pubesent wanna-be hardcore girls in hull wanna suck this kids dick casue he was in some shitty "mosh-core"band....OBW is horrible his clothes are horrible john blake is horrible in fact there all horrible.......let me know when there gonna be wiping ass's with his shirts i'll be right in front

p.s you people think this shit is bad at least you dont live on the south shore right near where it was spawned where 40 year old mothers sport johhny cupcakes shirts and where everyone in our newbury comics think "some of us may never see the world" is like the greatest thing to happen to hardcore since atreyu

tonite in revere and tommorow in nashua..
anyone want to go to a cupperware party?
we can set one up in brockton

I wish I could make a living off of being ironic too.

Maybe I'll print baby unicorn tees.

do it up and you will be rich... your in a semi successful local band thats all you need this guy started selling tees from him car on his lunch break and in his newbury comics store

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

Are you trying to copy Johnny Cupcakes? IF YOU EVEN SO MUCH AS LOOK UP SILK SCREENERS IN THE YELLOW PAGES I WILL POST ON BLABBERMOUTH AND MAKE A MYSPACE BULLETIN ABOUT HOW YOU'RE TAKING FOOD RIGHT OUT OF JOHNNY'S MOUTH!

Hahahaha.

I don't think he's riding the success of OBW as much as people think he is.

He had the clothing line before OBW was signed to eulogy and they only had a low qaulity like 6 song demo.

I like Jon Blake and John Earl.

niccolai said:

that demo was recorded at New Alliance. one of the best studios in Boston.

xmikex said:

you can tell because the lows are so brutal and not muffled sounding or crappy at all.

nick said:



I think they paid for it anyways.

hmmm if the sound quality was so good why did they record "i do my crosswords in pen" three times so far?

BobNOMAAMRooney nli said:

food out of his mouth?! if i bought one of his sweatshirts i could feed him and his entire "fsu" clan of gangstas for a week!

anonymous said:

What!? LISTEN KID YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HXC AND DIY BUSINESSES, JOHNNY CUPCAKES IS A SAINT AND THE SINGLE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO BOSTON HXC

i thought the intire diy lifestyle was not to charge and arm and a leg for a tee shirt, and do it for the love of doing it

anonymous said:

YOU JUST DON'T GET IT DO YOU!? GET PAID, GET MADE, GET LAID

Get aids

Kevord said:

exactly

i saw that van outside middle east on my way to the kings of nuthin show friday night

BobNOMAAMRooney nli said:


johnny cupcakes is straight edge so he could care less about making sex....
as sharkpunch saids livin la vi da straight edge till death

Making sex?

said that just to piss "BobNOMAAMRooney nli " off

Scott, Someone already made your unicorn shirts.

Anonymous posters who think I care about Johnny Cupcakes and can't spell entire-1

Me-0

what the fuck does DIY or hardcore have to do with some dude opening a clothing company? Here are the answers! Read on!:

A. Absolutely nothing!
B. This dude could care less about any of your bitching considering hes raking in enough money to afford rent at a space on newbury street.
C. You all hate for no reason! A clothing company has nothing to do with "hardcore!" Since when does he market shirts with X's and other hardcor symbology on it? All he does is sell shirts with fucking cupcakes on them and kids buy them....so again...where does hardcore fit into this equation?

You all got a serious hating problem...fact of the matter is hes raking in more a day than any of you working a 9-5. Yes RTTP, thats "so gay..."

anonymity is "so gay"!

anonymous said:

Actually you're wrong about that. I sell women into white slavery and I rake in more per day than the figures Johnny Cupcakes posted on Honeypump

anonymous said:

You are wrong. It has to do with the hxc scene because he sells right into it. You cant go to any hardcore show where you will see a bunch of nerds wearing the stupid cupcake, that they bought for 50 bucks, suckers.

Dave Gentile is a loser. I hope you get arrested again.

Kevelar said:



why the fuck do you care what some 15 year old kid wears at a show? if he wants to spend his parent's money on a stupid shirt... so be it. the fact that anyone even gives this a second thought or allows their blood pressure to rise because of it is ridiculous. the dude has a successful business selling stupid "designer" clothes for absurd amounts of money that most people here dont want to buy. he was also in a pretty shitty metalcore band that blew up pretty quick (people jealous?) good for him hes making a career out of something he enjoys, i just wont be buying his shit or going to his stores.

I love the notion that, because someone is 'successful' at something, somehow that translates to us not being able to criticize it for fear of offending scathing anonytards.

Well, fuck cupcakes, fuck George Bush, fuck Avril Lavigne, P. Diddy, B.U.M. equipment AND Avenged Sevenfold. Nyar.

i wonder why every country in the world hates America so much.

Do people really wear those gay shirts?

yeah upon careful consideration, fuck this guy...and while we are at it, fuck liberated images, and axis fabrix, and hatewear...how dare they create and sell clothing to hardcore kids...thats so not core d00d...neither is the fact that people actually buy it.

I don't care who sells what to Hardcore kids. But those shirts look really dumb. At least make cool images.

all the arguments in favor of this store are poor to say the least.

1. What does this have to do with hardcore? This clothing line may or may not have been funded completely on his own but the exposure the line had through it's association with OBW and "hardcore" was what launched it. That's just a fact and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. The important thing to note here is that Johnny Cupcakes never really DID anything in On Broken Wings. He was the "dj" or something, but in actuality all he really did was play a sample here or there. When he "left the band" I couldn't even tell the difference besides there being one less dude on stage, and one less sample before.. whatever that song is. Everything he did "musically" could have been accomplished by pushing a button on a 4 track. WHAT HE DID DO in the band was sell t-shirts, push his clothing line, and turn shows into a big tupperware party for his merch. Weather you think that's an insulting misuse of a music scene, or a smart business move is totally up to you. But don't be stupid and say this had nothing to do with "hardcore".

2. People with money are freely criticized every day. I don't see the Boston Globe ragging on some Newbury Street bum's approach to foreign policy. Of course not, they criticize George Bush, John Kerry, big mouthed flavor of the month celebrities... people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. You can't buy respect, and you can't buy the ability to be right. And yes, the Johnny Cupcakes store will exist with or without the approval of RTTP, or anyone on it. But if no one really cares what we think then why are anonymous internet cronies popping out of the woodwork to defend this crappy clothing line? Seems to me like going out of your way to defend something is what you do when you care. And what a totally noble cause to get behind too... screen printed cupcakes on aqua blue t shirts. Fight the power.

3. I think someone just set their computer to Auto-Stupid for this one. Just because people are buying and selling goods no one is supposed to make fun of it? There are HOW MANY companies marketing, and manufacturing dildos, and butt plugs right now? There are HOW MANY trucks full of windchimes, and cat t-shirts headed to Christmas Tree Shops as we speak? There are HOW MANY weapons and explosives being dealt to terrorists worldwide? Just because a supply and demand are present doesn't make the transaction worthwhile. The world will still keep turning even if all those industries went under, in fact the world might be a better place without them. Fact is fact: if you're going to make an assinine product (like Oh... I dunno... a bunch of super expensive t shirts with cupcakes on them, marketed to 20 somethings hipsters but look like they should be marketed to 5 year old girls) you should expect an assinine response.

And I don't know anyone who actually goes to shows and wears any of those afforementioned brands. All my friends wear clothes they've picked up over the years from actually going to shows, putting their time in, and giving legitimate support to something they enjoy. But that's just me, and that doesn't make me anything.

4. I hope Johnny Cupcakes makes more money than Steve Forbes. Sincerely. I hope this business does great, and he makes a billion dollars because that money is coming straight from the pockets of irresponsible hipster shitbombs with money already burning holes in their pockets. I hope they toss all their money straight at Johnny Cupcakes and go broke like they usually do after they spend all thier money on dumb shit instead of rent, bills, and/or anything worthwhile that might help them out in life. So when they're huddled up in the gutter dirt fucking broke trying to decide which designer pink shirt to burn just to keep warm I'll be living like a cartoon king in my heated apartment funded by putting my hard earned money in MY bank account, and not Johnny Cupcakes'. When it gets to that point I'd gladly sit down and have a glorious steak dinner with Jonny Cupcakes himself, and have a hearty laugh over the whole situation.

holy crap, that might be the funniest thing i have ever scene, seriously.

oh word, it's the Asshole Prom aka any given afternoon on Newbury Street.

I walked by the shop on Saturday and there was a line of people waiting to get into the store.

There setup is cool, at least from what I could see from the outside. Modeled after a bakery and instead of bags there shirts come in boxes that look like Munchkin' boxes. At least you know where your $35 is going.

My only problem with Johnny Cupcakes was the anger over Urban Outfitters 'stealing' one of their designs when Johnny Cupcakes has done the same thing a few dozen times over the years.

um, isnt the store almost next to urban outfitters?

yes

Egon said:


Yes, but people would argue that the designs he spun aren't really hurting anyone... Take for example the celtics logo. You think any members of the boston celtics are pissed about him using the design? if anything, that's free publicity.

What urban outfitters did was take the design of a very small, under funded company for their own profit.


lets weigh it out

JC - stole the design of a basket ball team that makes more money in a year then you will in your life, wich didn't cut into their income

UO - stole the design of a small indy company, and cut in to his potential income, and may have cost him gross amounts of money if he decided to take them to court for royalties.

Axis Fabrix did custom screening for the lowest rates I've ever seen and will price match, set up free, and pay for shipping for you. They've done more for the local music scene than you know and not only that, they recently went out of buisiness doing it.

There is a clear difference between what Jess and Rich did at axis fabrix than what JE is doing with Jcupcakes. They aren't even in the same industry.

xmikex said:

IT'S KEL-TICK, YOU FUCKING ASS! KEL-TICK!

this is what you missed at cupcakes bash

please tell me that is just a grotesque amount of plaque.

chris bridge9, chris mission, collin of arabia?

I'd rather spend my money on Keno than t-shirts. But xMikex / "Mike FTD" - didn't your friend/crew-homie(who is seemingly larger/tougher than you) get his ass beat by Collin for talking shit on the Internet & in general? I could of sworn I saw it on the Boston beat down dvd. Didn't he play drums for back of tha neck, who also had a song making fun of people that talk shit on the Internet? My older brother has seen you at shows singing along and dancing to this Internet Thug song. Ironic. Just thought that you specifically, talking on Collins friend Johnny - on the Internet, is funny. You're a funny guy.

anonymous said:

1. If you've got a problem with Chad take it up with Chad. He's a big boy. He handles his own messes.

2. I didn't "talk shit" on anybody. I brought up some pretty well reasoned arguments for and against a t-shirt store. I don't force my beliefs on anybody, and at 24 years old I'd like to think I'm slightly beyond making threats over t shirts.. If you have a problem dealing with that then that sounds like your problem. Anyone who brings themself out into the public eye like Johnny Cupcakes has done is most likely prepared for criticism. That's a fact. And out of all the people you mentioned I don't think any of them would have a problem with approaching me and discussing it should they take offense to it. No one's out to pick a fight but you. If you don't like internet fights then don't start one.

im sure johnny doesnt care about any of this or any criticism for that matter. he was in a bad metalcore band and makes merch with fruity cupcakes on em, he prolly get shit all the time. i wouldnt pay more then ten bux for a shirt. but kudos for making it happen and not workin for the man. he should sell actual cupcake too, i bet he'd make a killin off of americas obesity bwahaha

ON BROKEN WINGS = ROCKS DUDE THEY HAVE A NEWER SOUND AND BETTER LYRICS IF YOU TOOK THE TIME TO STOP BANDWAGONING ON TO EVERYTHING ON FUSE AND LISTENED TO SOME REAL TALENT YOU WOULDN'T JUDGE JOHN'S SUCCESS! HE WORKED REAL HARD TO BE ABLE TO START SOMETHING NEW AND FUN, AND HE APPRECIATES ARTISTIC TENDENCIES OF AVID MUSIC LISTENERS, AND BOSTON HARDCORE IS WAY MORE TOLERANT THAT ANY OTHER SCENE ANYWHERE, EVEN NYC DOESN'T SHOW SUCH ACCEPTANCE AS THESE GUYS DO.

what does talent have to do with OBW? answer me that, haha