@MrGOH: That bad? There's no Hot Topic in the barren northen wastes where I make my home, so I can't know. But hey, I guess injecting a little bit of sci-fi goodness in this wretched hive of vilainy is a good thing, right?
@collex: I dunno if it's necesarily bad. I suppose if they have cool T-Shirts, then they have cool T-shirts, you know? But Hot Topic was where the rebellious teams from my small Midwestern hometown would get their cheap, outrageously colored hair dyes. Lots of what passed for anti-establishment teenage rebellion found an outlet in Hot Topic products. Which was, as I said before, in a mall.
I guess I was just reminiscing about the 90's. Maybe Hot Topic is now more pan-geek than faux goth.
@collex: It's actually not unusual to see geek-stuff trickle in. Back in the day, mixed with various 'RAWK' t-shirts were video game tees of various kinds. The old 'Zelda hearts' shirt, the konami code, stuff like that.
GOH pretty much nails it though. It sort of hit the nerve of 'Goth' culture at the time and so you'd inevitably see it swarming with 'rebellious' teenagers dropped off by their mothers in minivans. Pretty amusing.
@MrGOH: It's still the faux-Goth teen heaven it's always been. Back in my freshman year of high school, I used to buy most of my clothes there. The clothes there are incredibly expensive, badly made, and of course, stupid. I rarely talk about those days... oh the horror!
@MrGOH: They're not even goths. Goths are depressed, though mostly amiable, folks.
What spawns in Hot Topic are mallrats who fashion themselves as hardcore punks, yet of course Hot Topic is filled with signs telling kids its not cool to steal.
@n3onkn1ght: Really? It was certainly the goth-y end of the teenage rebellion clique spectrum who sopped at Hot Topic in the days of my youth. I suppose anyone who wanted to buy hair dyes with brand names like Manic Panic could have found stuff at Hot Topic easily. And in the pupa stage it can be quite difficult to tell a goth from a punk...
@thecortexiphansession: I bought a T-shirt there once. Also a badly-bound book on marijuana culture (it was putatively a weed encyclopedia, IIRC) and later some gag gift cheap-ass goth jewelry for a gf who went as Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice for Holloween in college.
@MrGOH: You're right, it's prett hard to tell a goth from a punk at this young an age. In fact, I think that at the pupa stage, there is only one kind of rebellious teen: the rebel. The don,t have enough experience to really belong to a sub-group like punk or goth. They are just rebels. And bad ones at that.
Now that I know what Hot Topic is, I can assure you we have similar store up here.
You can now buy Serenit and Firefly T-Shirts from Hot Topic (which I understand is a big store chain in the U.S.). Figured someone would like to know.
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I guess I was just reminiscing about the 90's. Maybe Hot Topic is now more pan-geek than faux goth.
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GOH pretty much nails it though. It sort of hit the nerve of 'Goth' culture at the time and so you'd inevitably see it swarming with 'rebellious' teenagers dropped off by their mothers in minivans. Pretty amusing.
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What spawns in Hot Topic are mallrats who fashion themselves as hardcore punks, yet of course Hot Topic is filled with signs telling kids its not cool to steal.
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I'll have to hide my DVD's and stop wearing my Blue Sun t-shirt.
People might mistake me for a Twihard!
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Now that I know what Hot Topic is, I can assure you we have similar store up here.
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