I like this shoe, but would never wear it. I used to be into Black Label so much back in high school and college...Label used to make you wanna smoke a bunch of weed and shotgun a bunch of beers and go skate.
I used to be really into BL. The Cardiel, Upson, Pronier days. They had a nice resurgence in the early 00s with Speyer, Svitak, Adams, Hensley, Hendrix, Agah, Hassan, etc. I guess that was the Label Kills era.
All that said, I think John Lucero is a complete kook and I'd never spend one penny on anything Black Label. He likes to play the martyr role, a true skateboard purist. But the truth is he is a sheister businessman. That's fine, but stop pretending. I always get a chuckle out of his views on Rocco because they are just dripping with irony.