Some estates take great pride in their likeness and image. Take for instance, Jim Morrison. The late estate of Jim Morrison do not allow the man's iconic image to be whored out to car commercials, action figures, Wal-Mart kid pajamas, and toilets. Then some estates are perfectly ok whoring out the image of their main person...see Elvis.

Well add Bob Marley to the latter category. Bob Marley's family has teamed up with a private equity group to handle licensing of the late Jamaican reggae legend's likeness, trademarks and themes on retail products ranging from apparel to video games.

Hilco Consumer Capital will license products including, shoes, food, collectibles, luggage, musical instruments, and stationery, with the Bob Marley family of brands.

In addition to Bob Marley, the group will also license products under the names of Tuff Gong, Catch A Fire, One Love, Three Little Birds and Relics of Antiquity, it said on Tuesday.

Great! So a typical day of a Bob Marley lover might look like this:

8AM: Get out of bed and put on Bob Marley shirt and "One Love" song.

9AM: Cook the Bob Marley bacon next to the Jimmy Dean sausage.

9:15AM: Fire out a giant shit in the Bob Marley rasta toilet.

11:00AM: Smoke a bowl out of the Bob Marley dreadlock bong extension.

11AM-3PM: Play Grand Theft Jamaica starring Bob Marley and the Marley family

3PM: Grab Bob Marley wallet and head to the store.

3:30PM: Buy Bob Marley Buggles, Bob Marley Doritos, Bob Marley Slurpee, and the Bob Marley Slim Jim

4PM: Go back and smoke some more Bob Marley weed out of the Bob Marley dreadlock bong extension

4:15-7PM: Play Street Fighter vs Bob Marley's Family and Steel Drum Band: Bob Marley edition

You get the idea. It is a further raping of an iconic name and image. How terrible.

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