Song lyric tattoos/music tattoos: lame or awesome?

So as tattooing is on the rise in the West and in the United States, the number of song lyric/pop music tattoos is also on the rise. I have seen tons of Morrissey tattoos in my time. (There's a webpage somewhere...) I found it odd that most Moz tattoos seemingly fall into one of three categories: "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", "Viva Hate" and variations on "Morrissey" (his autograph, "Moz", his name, etc.) I'll admit, I want a Morrissey-related tattoo; it doesn't fall into any of the aforementioned categories and it serves as a nice life philosophy: "Sing Your Life". Hokey and cheesy, I know.

The word around the bad tattoo LiveJournal communities is that there is no such thing as a good ICP-inspired tattoo, and many other music-related tattoos don't come out looking much better. Writing this paragraph gave me the idea to get Old Lesbian!Geddy Lee tattooed on my bicep. BAD IDEA!

Rachel and I wanted to come up with a whole series of "[insert musician name] here" stick figure tattoos after a comment in a bad tattoos community. The comment ran along the lines of "Every Morrissey tattoo is made awesome by the fact that it is a Morrissey tattoo. You could have a stick figure with an arrow saying "Morrissey here" and it'd be awesome." This appeared on an entry where the portrait made Mozza look like an American Indian. Ooh, I saw a portrait tattoo of Billy Idol and it looked kind of like Adam Ant and it gave me the very wrong idea to get this on my back in full Technicolor brilliance. If I knew that I wouldn't regret it and I had a good artist and thousands of dollars, I would get that. But enough about me.

Related links: http://community.livejournal.com/lyrical_ink/
http://community.livejournal.com/literarytattoos/ (sometimes includes song lyrics)