This is a television that was in one of the warehouses across the street from Graceland where they meticulously catalogued all of his shit that frankly should have been taken to Goodwill long ago when he was still alive. Though I am not sure they had Goodwill back in the 1970s or in Tennessee. At the very least they could have just sat it outside the gates with a "Free" sign on it.
Not that anyone likely would have wanted a television that had be shot and more than likely no longer worked. But the bigger question is why did the people working for Elvis at the time keep the television.
I know enough about Elvis to know logic should not be applied to his behavior or his staff's behavior. I imagine he shot the television and someone scurried in and whisked it off before he came out of his drugged stupor. The rationale for Elvis shooting the television was apparently that Robert Goulet was on some program he was watching and he didn't like Robert Goulet. ChatGPT says Elvis didn't really dislike Robert Goulet, he just came on the television when Elvis was in a mood. Robert Goulet chalked up the story of Elvis shooting the television as being because of his playful personality.
That's crazy talk.
Regardless, I was able to use the image of one of the televisions Elvis shot (apparently there were quite a few) to create this. The "Kill Your TV" image was ironically from a photo of some graffiti I took a photo of when I visited Memphis back in 2018.
And of course I turned it into a t-shirt. I also promoted that t-shirt on social media today in honor of National TV Dinner Day. The irony is is that I don't think too many people remember TV dinners or tube TVs anymore.
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