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Posted 7/21/09 2:10 pm ET by Tamar Anitai in Must See, Style

Surely you know Keyboard Cat, yes? The late, great Fatso the cat -- owned by Charlie Schmidt (yes, Keyboard Cat was a REAL cat!) -- who skyrocketed to posthumous piano-playing fame when Brad O'Farrell created the "Play Him Off, Keyboard Clip" clip that you, Stephen Colbert, the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, and the rest of the meme-loving world know so well and love even more.
And then there's the Amazon Three Wolf Moon shirt -- a shirt so loaded with magic powers that it's hard to believe it's got only three wolves and just one moon on it.
Now, Keyboard Cat's fallen under the enchanted spell of Wolves' Moon, and where before there was just one Keyboard Cat, now there are three, in the form of the Three Keyboard Cat Moon t-shirt, available at Threadless.com.
The Three Keyboard Cat Moon tee was designed by Oxen -- artists Shawn Harris and Emilee Seymour, who've created band illustrations and websites for artists like The Matches. And while usually Threadless designs are voted on over seven days by the Threadless community before they can become actual, official t-shirts, the Three Keyboard Cat Moon (or 3KCM) made Threadless history when it received the highest score and most votes ever, shutting down the voting process early. (Kind of like how EVERY year on American Idol they say it's the CLOSEST VOTE EVER, except there was no competition, and this actually WAS the highest-scoring Threadless t-shirt ever.)
Threadless founder Jake Nickell weighed in on the Keyboard Cat/ Wolf mash-up and the company's controversial decision to end scoring early and rush it to print: "This design was submitted, and before we even noticed we saw it start to trend on Reddit. We put it up for scoring and it started gathering up 5's faster than we could ever imagine. Over just one weekend Three Keyboard Cat Moon accumulated more scores than any other design in 9 years of Threadless history and the highest average score to boot. We listened and put it up for sale immediately. This is the first time we've actually ended scoring early in favor of printing the design."
If you can handle two great memes in one great shirt -- and as a true-blue Keyboard Cat fan, I know I certainly can -- 3KCM can be yours for $20 on Threadless.com. Godspeed you, Keyboard Cat, the shirt!


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