{"id":1762,"date":"2008-07-06T06:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:59:58","slug":"the-commodification-of-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/06\/the-commodification-of-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commodification of Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I found these Ray Ban ads at <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/ray-ban-reshapes-records-cassettes-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Copyranter<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-ray-ban-21.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1769 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-ray-ban-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"651\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-ray-ban-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-ray-ban-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"651\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also found this cassette tape belt buckle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/contemporary\/cassettes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), cassette tape bag (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaboodle.com\/reviews\/vintage-70s-brown-leather-hobo-tote-purse-bag-boho\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and boom box pendant (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myhiphopbling.com\/boombox-necklace-pedant.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-boom-box-necklace-charm.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-cassette-tape-belt-buckle.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1767 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-cassette-tape-belt-buckle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-cassette-tape-bag.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-ray-ban-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1765\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-cassette-tape-bag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1768 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/media-commodification-of-nostalgia-boom-box-necklace-charm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These remind me of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/30\/co-opting-punk-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">this T-shirt<\/a> with pictures of safety pins on it.\u00a0 When you&#8217;re so old school that you, um, buy a t-shirt with&#8230; well I guess you&#8217;re just buying a t-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these Ray Ban ads at Copyranter, I also found this cassette tape belt buckle (here), cassette tape bag (here), and boom box pendant (here). These remind me of this T-shirt with pictures of safety pins on it.\u00a0 When you&#8217;re so old school that you, um, buy a t-shirt with&#8230; well I guess you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,23703,265,23705],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-marketing","tag-jewelry","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29558,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}