Judas Priest is reportedly mulling over filing a lawsuit against the Gap over the retailer’s T-shirt design that bears more than a passing resemblance to the cover art for Priest’s classic, Screaming For Vengeance. The tee is no longer for sale on Gap.com. Singer Rob Halford told The Quietus, “Well, it’s very naughty of [Gap]. They shouldn’t have done that and we’re investigating that right now because that’s intellectual-property rights. We were never asked, and neither was our label. Having said that, pushing the legal side of it to one side, it’s brilliant, isn’t it? To think that something 30-odd years later is still striking enough to be a fashion moment — it’s a bit like when [Absolut vodka] did the British Steel label.”

He added, “The thing with artwork is that I don’t think that you can underestimate its power. Like, you’ll see somebody walking down the street with a Cannibal Corpse T-shirt on, if you say to them: ‘Oh, I love that band,’ they’ll go, ‘What band?’ And if you say: ‘The T-shirt,’ they’ll probably say, ‘Oh, I just like it!’ And I think that’s great, because again you’re making a visual, emotional connection with people; that’s what Screaming For Vengeance is doing all these years later.”