Indie Band YACHT Claims Kohl's Ripped Off Lyrics on T-Shirt

The electro-pop outfit says the department store also stole elements of its logo.

Department-store chain Kohl's may well have a lawsuit coming its way -- or at the very least a lot of angry hipsters on its hands -- over a t-shirt design the indie electro-pop outfit YACHT is alleging rips off their logo and one of the band's songs.

The band posted today on its Tumblr an image of a Kohl's shirt design that reads "If I can't go to heaven then I'm going to L.A." alongside a YACHT lyrics poster for the 2011 single "Shangri-La" with the song's suspiciously similar chorus: "If I can't go to heaven let me go to L.A." The Kohl's shirt also substitutes the "A"s with triangles, the same way the band does in its logo.

The band wrote:
                       Listen, we’re interested in how ideas circulate through popular culture, but this “If I Can’t Go To Heaven” triangle t-shirt is too much. Kohl’s is a huge corporate entity that stands to make way more money off our lyrics and design than we ever will. Please share this image and let Kohl’s know it’s not OK to rip independent artists off this blatantly."   #corporatemakeover

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