Happy Birthday, Kurt Cobain

February 19, 6:39 PMMusic ExaminerLinda Laban

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Dress like Kurt.

Call it the beautiful corpse syndrome. Tomorrow, Feb. 20, Kurt Cobain would have turned 42. Hard to imagine the iconic leader of Nirvana, who died tragically in April 1994, as a middle-aged… What? Rocker? Who knows? All we have is the devilish-angelic young Kurt to remember. And the music. Oh, and his t-shirts? Worn Free, a Los Angeles based rock t-shirt company, reprises the t-shirts worn by music icons, including Kurt's mocking "Grunge is Dead" shirt and the "Hi, How Are You," which is actually a Daniel Johnston tee. Other snapshots of Cobain’s sartorial style include a vintage motorbike t-shirt, sporting the slogan "Live to Ride, Ride to Live" and a copy of the "Sounds" shirt, he copped from the British rock magazine of that name Which like Cobain, also bit it in the 1990s. Still, you can always raise a glass and opt for the "Olympia Beer" shirt Cobain once wore. But, come to think of it, didn’t Oly beer close up shop too?