In Utero’ was the last album made by Nirvana in the 90s. And just like the original album cover, a glass woman with angel wings also features on our ‘Nirvana In Utero’ t-shirt. This mottled blue shirt, which comes in sizes up to XXL, is also exclusive to EMP. Over the course of 30 years, Bleach has been assessed and dissected again and again — deemed by some as the ultimate “grunge” album and by most as a seminal record in the “genre”… you may be wondering why I’m putting “grunge” and “genre” inside quotation marks. It’s because grunge isn’t a genre of music; it’s a subculture — one defined by certain emotional traits and one very much influenced by the environment from which it emerged. However, what this assessment fails to understand is that even after the Seattle Sound and all that came with it, including hordes of cultural invaders, had faded in the late ’90s, the feelings and sentiments stirred by Nirvana are still very much alive with every generation produced in The Pacific Northwest. While outsiders have keepsakes and artifacts from that heady time, we are still very much reveling in it and living it. Not in the hysteria but in the underlying, ineradicable ideas that define who we are as a people. And this comes from more than just being young and scrimping out an existence in a nothing town outside larger cities.

You can’t wear Nirvana T-shirts to Nirvana gigs any more, but you can wear them pretty much everywhere else. They seem to be especially poignant at festivals so you will be please to know that regardless of fit or finish all the Nirvana T-shirts in the EMP online shop have one thing in common. You can just throw them in the wash, and the high quality material, prints and manufacturing processes will ensure your T-shirt remains as epic as the band. Sub Pop 'Stripper' Shirt (white version): Official Bleach-era Tour T-Shirt produced in 1989 by Sub Pop Records Nirvana Bleach-era promo long-sleeve shirt from Tupelo Recording Company to promote the release of Bleach in Europe.

Handmade AM/PM 'Nirvana' Lighter Pre-Nevermind-era lighter produced in 1992 for the 3/08/1991 Pre-Nevermind Show Like most people, I didn’t experience Bleach in its entirety until a number of years after its initial release. (I wasn’t even born while the band was still active; Kurt Cobain ended his life a month before I arrived.) As a girl growing up, I had heard the radio-friendly hits (on the “alternative” station that played “Smells Like Teen Spirit” once an hour), seen the iconic Nirvana smiley-face t-shirt everywhere from Wal-Mart to Forever 21, and known the band’s name. However, I really didn’t understand the music or Nirvana — not until I became a teenager living in The Pacific Northwest. There are lots of theories about what the logo means, which cover everything from substance misuse to the 'lusty lady' strip club in Seattle. Some protagonists have also speculated that it’s possible that it was just a doodle and meant nothing at all... but only Kurt himself would have known.