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they sell stuff at interpunk.com and you can find other sites, your not restricted to hot topic people

I love hot topics stuff! Their pants are to die for, but that store torments me. I never have enough money to pay for the things it has to offer. Their always so high priced. I saw these gloves that I told myself I couldn't live with out and they costed three times more then I thought they where worth.

biggrin your a good person

as for my opinion, I have only been a Hot Topic store once, and the weird thing was, I got looked down upon from the customers, cuz I looked like a real goth. I had just gotten back from Ozzfest, so I was all hyper and looked like s**t [[my hair has never been so frizzy! Curse you Disturbed!]] but everyone else was all calm and clean. Not really preps, just not true goths. The clerk was nice [[and attractive]] but other then that, the one place I should fit in, I don't.

I personally like The Dark Entry, it's my store. The website is s**t compared to the actual store, but still. They had the Will Wonka glasses there, the white goggles, with red lenses yano? eeeeeeeh! I was in love. but WAY to exspensive!! ninja

A friend of one of my friends, found out their pants are fire-proof suposely, lol. He had accidently spilled a bit of gasoline on his pants, and later on, (hasn't washed them) when they were messing around, he dropped a lit cigarette on them, they didn't do anything.

I'll admit it: I do shop at HT from time to time. I mostly go for some of their word tees or necklaces. (omg, most of those necklaces are awesome!)

I believe though, that you should mix the stuff you buy from there with other stuff from elsewhere, like Wal-mart or Target or whatever. That way, you're just adding your own little style to it, and not looking like HT version of a model, you know?

Well, the problem is the instagoths. Shopping at Hot Topic doesn't make you a poser, it's just that many suburban kids "go goth" all at once. Many of these kids only shop at Hot Topic because it's convenient and it makes them unique; one girl who went to my high school, for example, once said "I only shop at Hot Topic because it's what available. If there weren't goth or punk stores around I would care about buying the clothes or dressing that way."

The convenience of Hot Topic has lead to a dramatic rise in instagoths, teenagers who "go goth" all at once by having a huge shopping spree at Hot Topic. This rise has resulted in many legitimate goths questioning "Is Hot Topic actually trying to appeal to goths, or is it just banking on popular trends?".

i absolutly despise hottopic. its just abercrombie trying to appeal to "those weird kids" and turning the gothic and punk subcultures into horrible, distorted, mockaries of what they used to be. its breeding more and more of those annoying teenagers who are 'just goth enough to worry their parents, but still cool enough to impress their friends'. im not saying that every one that shops at hottopic is hopless poser, im just saying that hottopic is trying to showcase gothic and punk lifestyles as "the hip new fashion trend for teenage rebels" without any reguard to what the lifestyles actually represent.

also, i hate those big, ugly,ridiculously over priced pants with all the s**t hanging off of them. baggy pants are so unflattering. xp