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 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:05 am
This is the place to b***h about the cesspool of crappy music, overpriced clothes, and pseudo-rebels that is Hot Topic. Or, if you happen to like the place, to say how great it is; afterwords, you are to be executed by firing squad (Just Kidding!).
On the whole, though it has a few things going for it, whatever positive traits I have still place it in the realm of crap. Before I b***h, I will acknowledge it's good aspects: the staff is nice (this is in my local mall), they have SOME good stuff (I've had the pleasure of buying a VERY nice fedora, some admitting k0r3 patches and t-shirts, and some friggin' awesome posters. Plus, my mom (yes, I'm a loser) bought me some stuff from there for christmas; unlike some of the ungrateful losers who go there, I thanked her), and...that's about as far a saving graces go. Plus, they're selling the original Battle Royale movies. K0r3, nuff said.
Now to the good part; the suckage. All of their merchandise is overpriced and cheaply made. Seriously, the fabrics suck and the stitching is poor; they sell some of the most tacky tie-ins for popular television shows (Family Guy drinks, wtf?); and their offerings as far as industrial music is concerned is, quite frankly, deplorable. But, you know what, those're not even the stuff that pisses me off. Here is what I REALLY hate about Hot Topic; the majority of the damn customers. Let me give you the rundown:
-whiny, ungrateful full pseudo-goths or punks who spend their parents hard earned money, or credit cards even, and treat said parents like crap
-whiny, ungrateful EMO LOSERS, who spend yadda yadda yadda, see above.
-trendy people who come here cause it's cool/freaky and act like general asses.
-Masonites, nuff said.
-angsty, airheaded, or just annoying 'artsy' types seem to frequent here
-neophyte otakus who haven't even gotten into the really awesome stuff (as much as I like Fullmetal)
Really, they're the worst part of that hole in the wall; and I deal with them daily. Really, who cares whether or not they're owned by the Gap, the aforementioned groups are what make it REALLY suck.
But, these are just my thoughts; the purpose of this thread to hear yours. I look foward to all of your opinions; whether they are in agreement or opposition. Enjoy the ride.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:05 am
all of this is true.
but lucky for me where I live I dont have to experience all that crap, we dont have a hot topic here and the stores we do have are yes retardedly expensive. with good reason becuase their clothes are not made cheaply. heart
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:49 am
I like it. I can ignore other customers just as easily as anywhere else, because most people are idiots, regardless of location, and if I dig, I can find cool s**t, just like anywhere else, because most merchandise sucks. If there were a big store with a sign that said "Get all your rivethead s**t here" in every town, it'd hardly be a subculture, now wouldn't it?
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:07 pm
OMG, I hate you all so much.
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:42 pm
minend OMG, I hate you all so much. Oh, but why?
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:32 pm
minend OMG, I hate you all so much. Someone hating me? Guess it's for caring about stupid s**t; fair enough.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:27 pm
Hot Topic sucks. The prices suck, the people suck, the media isn't helping, it used to be a raver store, it's full of whiny scene kids and scumbag emos. If they sell It at hot topic, I can make something eve better just with DIY.
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:20 am
hot topic is comerchalizing the industrial subculture and as such makes it so that it no longer matters about the musical history the origins or how you got into the music and why its important. Hot topic makes everything just another comodity that it can sell. its just another way for big buisness to get its fingers in underground antiastablishment culture. look at what happend to grundge. hot topic is doing it to everything.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:12 am
Holy crap, this shitty guild is still alive.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:08 pm
I hate all those little twerps who whine about how much they hate anything corporate, and frequent Hot Topic.
Hello, contradiction.
I still go in there sometimes. Somehow the security guards always think I'm shoplifting [which I do NOT!] and follow me around while the groups of trendy little girls pocket loads of that useless junk they sell in there.
I could go on for hours razz
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:46 pm
I have a pair of pant's from Hot Topic that I bought years ago. I like them. gonk
But the stores here are expensive and not so much in the middle of malls, which isn't bad. I'm too poor to afford the clothes usually though.
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:32 pm
dagrossman hot topic is comerchalizing the industrial subculture and as such makes it so that it no longer matters about the musical history the origins or how you got into the music and why its important. Hot topic makes everything just another comodity that it can sell. its just another way for big buisness to get its fingers in underground antiastablishment culture. look at what happend to grundge. hot topic is doing it to everything. The part that I italicised is something I'd never thought about...and a reason for me to consider it the coolest store ever. The reason I stopped giving a ******** about industrial fans (though I still like the music) is because we're assholes. When I hit my first rave, no one cared how I was dressed ('cept whether it was black and red, but it was a theme party, so it mattered a little) No one cared how I found D&B/house/happy hardcore, or that I'd never actually heard any of the songs they played that night before. I got out there and danced my a** off, and that's what the night was about. When I hit my second party, I saw a few cats from my first, and even though I didn't know s**t about electro and minimal, the themes for the second party, they were all still cool with me. I was able to stop and chat with a few folks, and ultimately just have a great ******** time. No intimidation factor, no 'how rivet are you' test. Just cool people. I would almost go as far as to say that p.l.u.r. isn't dead here, even though the drug scene kinda is, and that's awesome. They're just about the music. The other subcultures, they just know what they like, and like hearing about it. They don't care if you know about Gristle and Industrial records, or if you can recite Skuppy album titles. Just know what you like, and get out there and enjoy it. Hot Topic carries this ethic as well. The cashiers wont make you feel like s**t for buying a Neubauten shirt for an album you don't have, because you liked the way it looks. They'll just happily let you indulge in whatever commercialized aspect of the various dark subcultures you happen to like, regardless of you reason. Punks, Metalheads, and Rivets, we all get so caught up in being a culture that we forget sometimes that we only exist because we all love the same art, and should be happy when someone new loves it too.
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:22 pm
Lydia Desdemona dagrossman hot topic is comerchalizing the industrial subculture and as such makes it so that it no longer matters about the musical history the origins or how you got into the music and why its important. Hot topic makes everything just another comodity that it can sell. its just another way for big buisness to get its fingers in underground antiastablishment culture. look at what happend to grundge. hot topic is doing it to everything. The part that I italicised is something I'd never thought about...and a reason for me to consider it the coolest store ever. The reason I stopped giving a ******** about industrial fans (though I still like the music) is because we're assholes. When I hit my first rave, no one cared how I was dressed ('cept whether it was black and red, but it was a theme party, so it mattered a little) No one cared how I found D&B/house/happy hardcore, or that I'd never actually heard any of the songs they played that night before. I got out there and danced my a** off, and that's what the night was about. When I hit my second party, I saw a few cats from my first, and even though I didn't know s**t about electro and minimal, the themes for the second party, they were all still cool with me. I was able to stop and chat with a few folks, and ultimately just have a great ******** time. No intimidation factor, no 'how rivet are you' test. Just cool people. I would almost go as far as to say that p.l.u.r. isn't dead here, even though the drug scene kinda is, and that's awesome. They're just about the music. The other subcultures, they just know what they like, and like hearing about it. They don't care if you know about Gristle and Industrial records, or if you can recite Skuppy album titles. Just know what you like, and get out there and enjoy it. Hot Topic carries this ethic as well. The cashiers wont make you feel like s**t for buying a Neubauten shirt for an album you don't have, because you liked the way it looks. They'll just happily let you indulge in whatever commercialized aspect of the various dark subcultures you happen to like, regardless of you reason. Punks, Metalheads, and Rivets, we all get so caught up in being a culture that we forget sometimes that we only exist because we all love the same art, and should be happy when someone new loves it too. No one ever said it more true than you have. The way the music scene is with the elitists and s**t make you stop and think about why subcultures become subcultures in the first place. Sure, a hardcore fan does have the right to spew stuff like, "Yeah, I was there since the beginning," but then there are those that jump on and have been on for only a little longer than other folks, saying, "Yeah, we're hardcore, you're not." But if it wasn't for fanbases growing, and you should know that not everyone is there from the beginning, there would be no reason for unique bands to do the things they do. How do you expect a subculture to stay alive when you immediately shrug anyone off that's new to it? Music-nazis just make me embarassed to be a human sometimes. But a line has to be drawn sometimes. -Shrug- My only beef with Hot Topic is the music selection. But I know that it's a result of big business, so I can't really stay mad at it. xD Oh, that and it carries albums by bands that try to cash in on other bands' fame, like, "sounds like this band, and this other band, with better guitar riffs and crazier drums than this band," without the material to back it up. I think it was Bloodlined Calligraphy that had one of those labels, and when I previewed it at a listening station, needless to say, it sucked. So yeah, that's the only aspect that I hate.
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:56 pm
some random rivethead... Hot Topic sucks. The prices suck, the people suck, the media isn't helping, it used to be a raver store, it's full of whiny scene kids and scumbag emos. If they sell It at hot topic, I can make something eve better just with DIY. Agreed. I make my own industrial s**t, or find it at the scrapyard/hardware store/thrift store/Musicwerks Seattle/surplus store.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:26 pm
absinthe_mind3d some random rivethead... Hot Topic sucks. The prices suck, the people suck, the media isn't helping, it used to be a raver store, it's full of whiny scene kids and scumbag emos. If they sell It at hot topic, I can make something eve better just with DIY. Agreed. I make my own industrial s**t, or find it at the scrapyard/hardware store/thrift store/Musicwerks Seattle/surplus store. Yep, that how it goes. Especially when you are always broke *cough* me *cough*
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