BIG BLITZKRIEG BUTTONS!!! 3.5” OF PURE IMPACT!!! BIG MOTORHEAD. BIG BIG BURGER. BIG EYEBALL. BIG FRANKENSTEIN. BIG EDDIE! BIG RAMONES. BIG CRAMPS. BIG RAT FINK. BIG DOWN WITH EVERYTHING. BIG BASIL WOLVERTON. BIG MK MAUS. BIG PIZZA. YOURS, AT THE PORK SHOP!!!
ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK&ROLL HIGHSCHOO. I DON’T CARE ABOUT HISTORY. COS THAT’S NOT WHERE I WANNA BE!!! HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THE RAMONES? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. WELL, THAT’S 24 WAYS RIGHT HERE. 24 NEW 1.25” BLITZKRIEG BUTTONS (EVEN OUR DAMN BUTTON COMPANY IS RAMONES INFLUENCED). YOURS. AT THE PORK SHOP.
RIP JOEY RAMONE! YOU WILL LIVE ON, IN OUR HEARTS, IN OUR EARS & ON OUR JACKETS FOREVER! AT THE PORK SHOP!!!
Motorhead - R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Live 1992
RIP JOEY. “THERE’S ONLY TWO ROCK&ROLL BANDS IN THE WORLD, US & MOTORHEAD.” -DEE DEE RAMONE.
THE BLITZKRIEG BUTTONS ARE CALLING YOU DOWN TO THE CROSS-ROADS. WHICH WAY WILL YOU GO? THE SPINNING PIZZA SWASTIKA IS SURE TO CONFUSE THE SQUARES. LITTLE RICHARD WILL HAVE A SLICE. DEATH IS SMOKING & WAITING FOR YOU. DANZIG IS RIDING THE GOAT. TRACI LORDS FOR PRESIDENT. DEATH AGAIN. IT’S GOOD FRIDAY. GET A RISE OUT OF SOMEONE. WITH GORE! DEE DEE’S SWEATER SHOWS WHO IS THE REAL COS AROUND HERE. ELVIS IS PURE SEX & THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF PORK. HEDORAH IS A GROSS MONSTROSITY. WILL YOU TAKE THE MARK? (I WON’T) & LITTLE RICHARD SAYS PEACE, WE OUTTA HERE. AT THE PORK SHOP.
AMERICAN TRASH CULTURE SCRAPED FROM THE BOTTOMS OF SCHOOL DESKS & LOCKER DOORS. SUICIDE! SHANGRI-LAS, LEADER OF THE PACK, DOWN WITH EVERYTHING, GET SICK, THE ANTI-CHRIST FAN CLUB, GODZILLA VS. KING KONG, KING KONG, GABBA GABBA HEY RAMONES BUTTON (AS WORN BY MARC BOLAN), ILSA, QUEEN OF THE SS, THE HAMBURGLAR EN ESPANOL, TACO BELL EN INGLES, MOON GOONS, TAKE HOME A MOON GOON SOON.
GOD, I FORGOT THE RULES! DON’T TALK TO COMMIES. DON’T TALK TO COMMIES. DON’T TALK TO COMMIES. I GOTTA GET THIS TATTOO’D ON ME. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS A MENTAL ILLNESS & A SOCIAL DISEASE. GET YOUR RAMONES’ RULES PATCH AT THE PORK SHOP.
THE PORK LIFESTYLE IS REVEALED IN EACH BUTTON WE PRODUCE. A WORLD OF DENIM, LEATHER, STEEL, FIRE & BURGERS. ALL EYES ARE BLOODSHOT. MONSTERS WALK THE STREETS & WE ARE THEM. DOWN WITH EVERYTHING! WIN THE UGLINESS CONTEST. DISCOVER THE TRUE MEANING OF MICKEY MOUSE AS THE PEPPERONI SPEAKS TO YOU. AT THE PORK SHOP.
THE BEST THING ABOUT MAKING BUTTONS IS THAT WE CAN DECIDE TO MAKE AN ENTIRE SHEET OF DEE DEE RAMONE BUTTONS!!! JUST LIKE THAT. DEE DEE WITH FAMOUS PEP BOYS T-SHIRT. DEE DEE SURPRISED, DEE DEE PLAYING BASS. DEE DEE WITH DAVID JOHANSEN. HANDSOME DEE DEE. DEE DEE CREEPING OUT. DEE DEE WITH JORDAN. DEE DEE WITH CUT-OFFS. DEE DEE HANGING OUT ON THE STEPS. DEE DEE WITH IGGY (HIS HERO). DEE DEE THE PUNK RAPPER (DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE THAT IT WAS A BAD MOVE, GET THE RECORD & LEARN SOMETHING.). & DEE DEE THE SUGAR DADDY. ONLY AT THE PORK SHOP!!! DIG? MOST OF THE STORES AROUND THIS WACKY COUNTRY WOULDN’T EVEN KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS! SERIOUSLY!
THE RAMONES LAID OUT THE RULES IN COMMANDO! FIRST RULE IS: THE LAWS OF GERMANY. SECOND RULE IS: BE NICE TO MOMMY. THIRD RULE IS: DON’T TALK TO COMMIES. FOURTH RULE IS: EAT KOSHER SALAMES. WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW? SERIOUSLY. THIS RADICAL EMBROIDERED PATCH IS 3” SQUARE & READY TO ROCK!!! ONLY FROM THE PORK SHOP!!! THEY DO THEIR BEST! THEY DO WHAT THE CAN!
Real world testimonial from Gentleman John Battles of Roctober Magazine.
OK , I JUST GOT THE NEW PORK. I DID NOT FIND THE USE OF THE SWASTIKA PARTICULARLY OFFENSIVE. IT WAS USED IN THE SAME WAY MAD MAGAZINE (WHO , YOU’LL NOTE , WAS A LARGELY JEWISH COLLECTIVE , FREQUENTLY BASHED BY THE EXTREME RIGHT.) USED TO - IT JUST EXPRESSED RAGE OR CRAZINESS OR A WAY TO SUGGEST “BAD WORDS” - YOU KNOW , “$%#@**$!!!!
It wasn’t used as a means to convey Neo - Nazi sympathies , and I see Pork magazine the same way……I would imagine if it really offended a lot of people , they’d stop using that image , and The Iron Cross , which I’ve read was a medal of honor AWARDED EVEN BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE KAISER. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR CIRCLES WERE WEARING IRON OR MALTESE CROSSES , YEARS AGO , MYSELF INCLUDED (I even found one with a Black Power fist bolted onto it. Who could contest THAT?) , BUT , no one seemed to mind. Not like Dick Miller’s classic rant in “The Wild Angels”. But , to wear a Swastika T-SHIRT OR BADGE TODAY WOULD STILL HAVE THE SAME CONNOTATION . BUT , WE’RE TALKING ABOUT WEARING THEM IN PUBLIC. Even if your politics don’t lean that way , as with The Sex Pistols. They made it clear they were anti - Nazism and Communism , too , as did many Punk bands , but they flirted with the imagery of both , to some extent .
REAL NEO-NAZIS ARE TRAITORS. PORK SEEMS TO BE ABOUT AS ALL - AMERICAN AS YOU CAN GET.
John Battles , Roctober Magazine .
