The Disco Sucks shirt, 1977
1977
Rich Carey wearing an original 'Disco Sucks' T-shirt in 1977, two years before the Disco Demolition Night crowd burned records in a Chicago ballpark. The backlash this shirt belongs to pushed disco's audience, largely Black, Latino and gay, back underground, and house is what came out the other side.
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