Ebay, Frank Micelotta/Getty ImagesThis is a different type of fashion faux pas.
Kurt Cobain fans sparked outrage after a Reddit user informed the masses that there was a shirt being shopped around with the late Nirvana rocker's suicide note printed on it, ultimately resulting in the product being pulled from websites.
"That takes poor taste and exploitation to a new level," one user wrote, while another said, "I want this so I can wear it when I commit suicide."
"This makes me question the morality of the fashion industry and how far people are willing to go just to make a quick buck," a different Reddit user added. "I'm actually speechless and really this is just sick and obnoxious on every level, no doubt about it, I really see no logical nor creative reason to have this as a 'fashion' statement. If i was to draw a line, this tank-top would be 5...hundred miles over that line."
It first appeared online on Monday as a tank top on Etsy for $14.99 and was also available for $25.19 as baseball-style shirt on eBay. However, as of today, both websites have stopped selling the shirt.
An Etsy spokesperson would not comment on the shirt, but told Daily Mail that all sellers are required to follow the site's guidelines and may not sell items that fall under Etsy's list of prohibited items, one of which is "Items or listings that promote, support or glorify acts of violence or harm towards self or others."
An eBay spokesperson echoed this sentiment, explaining that the company "determined that this item violates our Offensive Materials policy, which includes the promotion of human tragedy. eBay policy does not allow items that promote or glorify human tragedy, hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance."
Cobain was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home in April 1994. He was 27. The Seattle chief medical examiner ruled that the rocker ended his own life three days prior after leaving a rehab facility for heroin addiction.
A hand-written suicide note was discovered, and called out his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean, who was only a year old at the time.
"I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm," he wrote.
"And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become."
He ended the letter with, "Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your alter. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. For her life, which will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!"