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Tryphena Absent
17:04 / 02.05.04
Once a look is on the high street, suddenly there's a "right" and a "wrong" way of doing it, and the DIY ethos always seems to end up being "wrong".

But at the same time you have to consider a number of things- teenagers don't necessarily have the freedom or the knowledge to find cheap and interesting clothes, we're talking about people who generally probably live in areas where they get taken in a car to a mall, they don't have a city that they can wander around. For some of these kids Hot Topic is possibly the most subversive shop they've ever seen. So "right" and "wrong" aren't necessarily factors but "different" is.
 
 
Char Aina
17:18 / 02.05.04
Maybe if *some* subcultures just gave up on the notion of having a uniform/look, they wouldn't have this problem, eh?

yeah... but isnt a large part of the goth thing the look?
we punks dont need it with our high falooting 'ethos' to wear as an armband instead, but how can you be all vampy dressed like woody allen?


Okay, who the hell cares what people wear.

i do.
so do other people who like pretty things.


I mean, really it just doesn't matter.

i feel the same way about your opinion, but i dont go telling everyone, do i?.



These are the people that piss me off. Behind me on the escalater in the mall were these stupid "PUNK IS DEAD" kids[...]all Abercrombie, would you go out with her?"
The other one is like "Hell, no"


yeah, those fucks are annoying.
punkers, icall em, not punks.
one should look deeper and all that.
the thing is, the folks who

[dress] in expensive clothes all the time, because he can afford it, and he likes how it looks.

are just as concerned with what impression their clothinng gives as the punk kids. why else would you buy a ralph lauren (or whatever brand, he may hate polo)
shirt for nearly a hundred pounds when you can buy a servicable lesser make that looks and feels as good? if you didnt care about the way you appear to others?
i dig that you say he can afford it, but why spend money you dont need to?
unless he does feel a need to?



But I bet some stupid punk kid or whatever would come up to him and be like "YOU ARE A PREP"

well, yeah, but punk in its youthful stages is massively about confrontation. i dont think thats a good battle to pick, the sartorial divide, but i do understand the need to 'other' yourself as a reaction to the dominant culture, or even people who 'dont get it'.

skaters do the same thing, when they talk shit about rollerbladers. i dont defend it, i do understand it. you have to remember there are a lot of really fucking stupid people doing anything.

why else would a GI pose for a photo with his torture victims? why else would kids at hardcore shows pick fights with smokers? why else are the terraces stil home to a few people who think nothing of glassing fellow football fans over the shirt they wear?


frankly, punk is not good, with the exception of the Descendents.

yeah right, dumbass.
what is it that you listemn to that is so much better?
have you even heard the fucking dead kennedy's, you pillock?
or the misifits?
or propaghandi?

Every punk song sounds almost the same, the distortion is turned up so high that it hides their mistakes and sounds like crap.


you read about punk more than you listen to it, dont you?


I am sick of people being like "Avril acts punk but she so isn't".

is that because you wanna bone her? because that is SO not punk.







Oh, and grunge sucks, too. Kurt Cobain just proved that you don't need to be talented to be famous.


well, i'll give you that. he totally proved that by catapaulting courtney love into all our lives. pretty smart guy himself, though.



So if they were truly hardcore they'd learn how to play THE FRIGGIN INSTRUMENT THEY 'PLAY'! ]

yeah, totally.
but not from a guitar teacher.
i had a few lessons, and it did me no fucking good at all.
as soon as i did it myself by listening and fucking around, music opened up to me.
lessons are not hardcore.
really wanting to learn is.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
05:43 / 03.05.04
ah, the sweet suburban teenage adventure that is..

the Hot Topic message board
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
07:09 / 03.05.04
It's okay to laugh at people who aren't me.
 
 
HCE
19:17 / 03.05.04
"The people that shop there bother me cuz when I go to punk shows they have a punker than thou attitude towards me despite the fact that my shirt will proclaim me to be "Punk As Fuck." It's like they can't read or something. "

Ha!

I don't at all mind Hot Topic, I bought a pair of vinyl pants there that I enjoy tremendously, and for a reasonable price. Without Hot Topic to separate the Weak from the Strong we'd be reduced to mocking those who shop at Forever 21, and what sort of sport is that? What I did not care for was being condescended to by the store clerk, who attempted to engage me in conversation for the sole purpose of amusing his snotty little friend. Try it some time, really. Being condescended to by a Hot Topic clerk new to the experience of growing pubic hair is so life-affirming. He didn't even seem phased when I pointed out that as somebody who worked in a mall, he was in no position to condescend to anybody. He muttered not quite under his breath that he at least was being paid to be there.

The little shit.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
18:53 / 05.05.04
HOT TOPIC SHOPPER



heh. carry on.
 
  

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