I recently finished reading The Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter. In the book the authors attack the notion that there is a counterculture that exists in opposition to the machinery of capitalism. I remember reading No Logo a few years ago and not being able to meaningfully resolve the way I was both indignant at the stories of exploitation while simultaneously being one of those individuals purchasing the consumer goods produced in those conditions. The Rebel Sell did a good job of putting this in perspective so is well worth a look. I particularly liked the notion of conspicuous consumption coined by Thorstein Veblen back at the turn of the 19th century. Rather than dribble on about the book I thought this photo I took of a shop window in Brighton's North Laines summed it all up rather neatly:

Presuambly it hasn't been killing slogan-bearing t-shirt printing capitalists nor the running dogs who purchase such merchandise or this rubbish wouldn't be assaulting my eyeballs. It could be a massively ironic statement on the part of the window-dresser, but I very much doubt it.