But Nevermind isn’t even the only 1991 Seattle grunge album to face a legal challenge over its cover art: Sub Pop, also Nirvana’s former label, had to swap out the image for Tad’s 8-Way Santa after a lawsuit by the shirtless couple in the photo, which the band found in a thrift shop, hardly knowing the woman had become a born-again Christian. Elden’s reckoning with his lifelong Nirvana connection seems to have been especially complicated, considering that he has recreated the image multiple times and had the album title tattooed on his chest. Being immortalized on someone else’s record is a concept with profound implications about identity and ownership.
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