- Jun 26, 2008
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The old heads and the new blood been separated. Hell, half the fools who consider themselves old heads are the new blood and they don't even realize it.
People have been saying "what's the big deal" about removing Nike Air from Jordans. People buy AJ13s that originally had 3M without 3M. People go crazy for AJ11s that bear no resemblance to the shoe. AM95s are cardboard. AM1s are shaped like bananas. AF1s are a joke. All these things still sell. The "old heads" don't really even get worked up any more - the outrage is fun but once you've really grown up, you know better. ...Sort of like how Ayn Rand offers compelling ideas if you are 15, but as adult, you should really realize how idiotic it all is, and how precious it was that you were once naive enough to eat it up.
Nike doesn't care about it's most passionate, oldest, and loyal customers because we aren't worth the effort required to keep us happy. "Sneakerheads" seem to be under the mistaken impression that sneaker companies like them. They don't. Nike doesn't like you - you nitpick too much. Your local Foot Locker doesn't like you - you force them to open early and only buy the stuff that would sell out anyway; when you do buy other stuff you figure out how to almost completely obliterate their profit margin.
Businesses like people who spend money non-critically. People like me helped Nike become the urban culture Goliath it did decades ago. It doesn't need us any more. Should they owe us something? It's free market capitalism in action.
Want to know the irony? We built the tools that killed us and thought we were helping ourselves when we were helping them. Places exactly like NT served as the breeding ground for the next batch of less savvy consumers. And, they got gassed off of what the old heads did. So, they tried to replicate it, but it's like writing graffiti in a neighborhood of mini-mansions - it just doesn't work the same. You can't recreate the spirit and the context, so nothing has the same meaning. So, lacking that, they cling harder and harder to the physical, trying to one up one another forever. ...People with a little knowledge are a lot more dangerous than people with no knowledge. ...We dug our own graves. And, as self-righteous as we like to be, NT has plenty of blood on its hands for what has become of this hobby.
And, that's some real talk.
they're absolutely terrible.... they look worse than fakes, they look like some "AIR" brand knockoffs from a 2001 swap meet.
