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Apple Store Opening in Belfast: What’s the Skull/Bones TShirt? UPDATE: It’s a Protest!

8:40 pm, September 21st, 2008, Leander Kahney

UPDATE: The t-shirts are a protest from Murderdrome, the digital comic Apple banned from the iPhone App Store. As reader Alan notes in the comments, the t-shirts were handed out as protest by infuroiuscomics.com, the Northern Irish outfit behind the banned Murderdrome digital comic.

What is this t-shirt everyone is wearing at the grand opening of Apple’s first store in Northern Ireland?

Watch this BBC News report from the grand opening of the new store in Belfast this weekend. (”It’s absolutely mental,” says the delighted Apple fan above).

The overnight camping, high-fives and excited whooping are very much a part of grand openings in the U.S., but oddly, there’s one weird difference: Few people are wearing Apple shirts. Instead, half the crowd seems to wearing the same skull and bones shirt in either red or black.

Anyone recognize it?

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12 comments

    All I know is that Friday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day…

    Jarred, on September 21st, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    We don’t whoop because it’s only a shop selling expensive stuff we can get cheaper on eBay.

    James, on September 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 am

    Those are Infurious tshirts. You *may* remember the name Infurious as the group behind the ill-fated MurderDrome comic that was rejected by the AppStore recently. The Infurious guys were at the head of the queue giving out tshirts.

    DogThreeZero, on September 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 am

    i want to know too – it’s better than the tee mac gave out!

    teeandtoast, on September 22nd, 2008 at 2:02 am

    Some background on the T-Shirts from infuroiuscomics.com.

    Alan in Belfast, on September 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 am

    Gotta be better. Talk about hijacking the whoopfestival!

    TD, on September 22nd, 2008 at 2:42 am

    DogThreeZero has the answer. Nice shirts.
    http://cimota.com/blog/2008/09/19/apple-store-belfast-opens/

    judacris, on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Nice post, I seen that T-shirt in london.

    Apple, on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Not so much a protest as awareness. Now- go on, look at EyeCandy!

    mj, on September 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am

    I personally think that T-shirt looks better than the Apple one :) where do I get one ?

    muze, on September 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    [...] answer to this and [...]

    Infuriouscomics » Blog Archive » Protest? What Protest?, on September 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    I got one for my dog!

    DavidK, on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm