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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:50 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:58 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:07 pm
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Hot Topic's legitimacy in the goth culture is a topic I have commonly heard debated. I think I best summed it up duing a conversation I had a few weeks ago:
"It's good to pop into CVS if you need just a few simple things (aspirin, film, pencils, etc.), but you wouldn't want to shop exclusively there, would you? No, you'd go to Miejjers, or Kroger, or Walmart. Likewise. Hot Topic is like the goth CVS. It's good to pop in for a few simple things (eyeliner, a Projekt CD, fishnets, etc.), but you couldn't shop exclusively there. The majority of the CDs are pop-punk and metal, the majority of the fashions aimed at teens who want to rebel. Good for a quick pick up, yeah, but with far better stores online (like Heavy Red, Argoth, Goth-Shop, Drac-in-a-Box, etc.), why Hot Topic?"
As for it's "goth-oscity" (how goth it really is) I'll post on that a bit later.
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:08 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:27 pm
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Talamascan I dislike shopping there. I usually only go there to buy band shirts or make-up because I can't shop online. I dislike how their fashion is what people usually use to define 'goths'. plus they are really pricey. I mean, $50 for a pair of pants? I can probably buy a pair of shoes for less. $50? that's around £25 here, not too bad when the cheapest pair of trousers starts at £35 (and that's for real crappy ones) say $70 roughly, at most of the indie shops.
I live in the uk so we don't have any big chain alt places, just small indie shops (real cute places where it helps to be stereotypical emo and/or goth ie. a stick person because they're so crammed full >.<). So it is amusing to say the least with the fights that ensue about hot topic. There seem to be the people that view it as a mecca of all things they love, the people that hold it as the symbol of all things un-holy and blech, and the people that don't really give a crap.
I do agree with GilAskan's point of view. Where I live there's a choice of three shops that specialise in goth/emo/punk/wierdo things, but I wouldn't shop there exclusively, partly becuase they're damned expensive (they're independent, they need to get money somehow...daaaaamn) and they only have things that are showy and overblown.
I like to go around in my £5 crappy jeans I got from a chav (prep, only without the taste) shop. Cheap, plain, understated. Perfect. For the best buys, don't give a crap where you go (though, only with certain people, I'd never dream of going into a chav shop with a guy. Girls can get away with it, alt guys will get their arsed kicked if they show up in a chav shop...).
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:15 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:28 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:08 pm
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EmoXPickles_________x GilAskan Ndoki I find it very poser-esque but that's just me. Just leave it to stores like that to make gothic clothing mainstream and increase the number of skin goths. *Shudder.* eww. Kindergoths, mallgoths, mallcore... ewww. While I don't blame Hot Topic, I do think they are one of the factors in the exponential growth of the posuer-goth cultures. I'm pretty sure they are, I mean, have you noticed there's a Hot Topic in almost every mall?
What I meant was that they weren't wholey responsible for posuer goths, nor did they start the trend. They do contribute to it's growth though, and do nothing to stop it.
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:14 pm
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GilAskan Hot Topic's legitimacy in the goth culture is a topic I have commonly heard debated. I think I best summed it up duing a conversation I had a few weeks ago: "It's good to pop into CVS if you need just a few simple things (aspirin, film, pencils, etc.), but you wouldn't want to shop exclusively there, would you? No, you'd go to Miejjers, or Kroger, or Walmart. Likewise. Hot Topic is like the goth CVS. It's good to pop in for a few simple things (eyeliner, a Projekt CD, fishnets, etc.), but you couldn't shop exclusively there. The majority of the CDs are pop-punk and metal, the majority of the fashions aimed at teens who want to rebel. Good for a quick pick up, yeah, but with far better stores online (like Heavy Red, Argoth, Goth-Shop, Drac-in-a-Box, etc.), why Hot Topic?" As for it's "goth-oscity" (how goth it really is) I'll post on that a bit later.
That goth CVS. Exactly how I look at it. Exactly what my prior post was trying to convey.
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