Comments on: Hot Topic Rebrands, abandons Path of Darkness

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:46:38 +0000

I believe old hot topic helped me get to where i am now, it use to be a starting point or a “door way” for a 13 year old. But you have to learn to branch away and find your own way. Now hot topic isn’t even a starting point for an alt culture. they’ve changed so much over the years… i’m guess i straddle the fence. It use to be a good thing but now the place has gone down hill, almost abandoning who they originally targeted

By: Nadya

Nadya — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:46:58 +0000

Devon: You actually live in Podunk, Idaho? Or is that a metaphor? I’m curious!

By: devon

devon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:23:37 +0000

Oi, just as someone who actually lives in Podunk, Idaho, I’d like to say that even I won’t stoop to the corporate convenience of Not Gothic. And though they may have touted Siouxsie CDs and shirts in the past, it’s been a long time since they’ve begun catering to the Sliprot and Marilyn Hanson side of that coin. Bollocks to them and theirs; if you must have a mall outlet to express yourself for you, you deserve what you get. Twaddle.

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By: Sepha

Sepha — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:05:16 +0000

Well yeah, they are a corporation and by default more interested in making a profit than adding anything to culture, alternative or otherwise.
Then again there’s this one HT location out in the local shopping mall of Loraedo Texas that in addition to supplying the local heathens with ‘sexy’ Tinkerbell t-shirts and black nail polish keeps a huge ass binder of public events. The events can be submitted by anyone, so if you’re sixteen and your garage band is giving a concert in your parents backyard you can slip a flier into the binder and maybe get a few more audience members. Even if they’re just doing it for image or in the hopes that some dork will come in to write the date and time of event “Sam gets a wedgie” and leave with a bag full of overpriced buttons and novelty arm warmers, it’s nice that this one location out of the whole national chain can get away with promoting artists and musicians they don’t sell merchandise for.
Of course if they’re really dead set on being like the rest of the mall The Binder might have to find another home. Think Abercrombie and Fitch would take up the burden?

By: Metrujectiktus

Metrujectiktus — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:33:26 +0000

Приветствую всех!
У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.

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By: Sam Ramirez

Sam Ramirez — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:27:54 +0000

I have to say that I like the older look of hottopic better, but I do agree with Nadya. Kids who have no other resource go there because its convenient. Also, some of them need it to be “parent/consumer friendly” because of their parents not supporting the fact they lie a different style.

By: sindiva

sindiva — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:55:44 +0000

who cares?

it’s a business, they must change to survive. subculture will always be absorbed to an extent by society thus it will always be a developing beast itself. And on it goes.

Individuality is always a high fist in the air for the fringe. Yet no one exhibits any to a degree that would break any molds. I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t reminded me of some else, in thought or action or belief.

takk fyirir tima.

By: Things to Have Outgrown — My Tentacles Are Showing

Things to Have Outgrown — My Tentacles Are Showing — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:33:11 +0000

[...] I noticed that my favoritest blog in the whole world, Coilhouse.net, did a piece on the rebranding of Hot Topic, where I commented that this is a Place to Have Outgrown; it’s a good place to get started on [...]

By: tymcode

tymcode — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:10:10 +0000

I always thought of Hot Topic as a gateway drug. The mall rats could experiment with whatever was handy in there, and eventually bust out of the mall and into the thrift stores to develop their own look. (At least the cool ones.)

In short, it was a Place to Have Outgrown.

This would be a good theme for a CH posting: Stuff that is important to go through and just as important to outgrow. I’d love to see people’s lists: Hot Topic, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Renaissance Faire or the SCA, Tower Records, anything involving safety pins, and so on.

–Mike Jennings