Nick Cave reveals he once made a song with Flatbush Zombies

Responding to a fan who asks what Cave thinks of merchandising art, Cave revealed that while writing his response, he was wearing a Sonic Youth Goo t-shirt from 1990.

He goes on to speak about a Flatbush Zombies t-shirt, and writes about their unreleased collaboration, "I also own a very beautiful Flatbush Zombies T-shirt, bought around the release of their first album. A few years ago the Zombies and I attempted a collaboration and I sent them my version of the T. Rex classic, "Cosmic Dancer". They said they "could not relate to it" but they radically pitch-shifted my voice, sampled it and used it anyway, as the percussive heartbeat to an extraordinarily wild and fucked-up piece of hip-hop that neither of us released."

For the rest of the response, he lists some of his favourite pieces of music-related merchandise, such as "several ruined Dirty Three T-shirts featuring Mick Turner’s lovely mythic paintings", "Dirty Three sheriff’s badge, which I treasure because it is arguably the crappiest piece of merchandise ever made", "an amazing T-shirt which Susie gave to me that says "Beyoncé Wasn’t Built in a Day"", and an "Elvis Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite T-shirt, sent to me by someone who claimed to have actually been at the concert in 1973".

Closing his response in comedic fashion, Cave writes, "So, Piers, to answer your question would I wear a pair of merch socks myself? The answer is well, yeah, I do – when I do Jane Fonda’s Workout with my wife, I wear a pair of Radiohead compression socks, RiRi sweatpants, a Leather Nun T-shirt and a Dire Straits headband. I am a star jumping, butt clenching dervish of banality and exploitation. Look at me now!"