If your significant other’s a shameless grunge geek and has big, blank walls at home, here’s a fine birthday/anniversary/no-real-reason gift idea: an "archivally processed gelatin silver" Charles Peterson print. This one, we think, is a particularly nice choice.
Peterson (and Lance Mercer, of course) chronicled the wonder years of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam in incredible candid (and on-stage) photographs. And now, via some New Mexico outfit called Soulcatcher Studio, you can own some of his glorious work. The exhibition: Come As You Are: Seattle's Rock Legacy.
Conveniently, you don't have to travel to Santa Fe to pick your favorite shot--just order it online. An 11"x14" slice of rock history goes for just $625. Want a subway-size 20"x24" print? Just ask Soulcatcher—info on those jumbos is "available upon request." (Remember, if you have to ask … you can still charge it.)
Not convinced this is the greatest gift ever? Your adored obsessive will be struck dumb when you tell them their fresh print was previously unpublished anywhere. Nope, not even in Peterson's Touch Me I'm Sick. And if you’d like to be thanked in sexual favors, spring for the medium, $925 size—they’re signed and numbered by Mr. Peterson himself. You will be owed.
Yeah, that's a month's rent—but a diamond is two months’ salary. And hey, love can't be measured in dollars.

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