03.10.11
So there's this clothing have faith on my street in Chicago, and at night, in back, they turn on a light and desist it on. The lightÂ’s blue and green and red, and it rotates around and confettis the trees face -- so it's pretty, and I guess it's sort of a security implement too. One night I was walking a friend home and he fell in partiality with it, wanted to buy one, and I said "Well, find a Hot Topic!" I was half-joking, half-serious, then realized he'd never heard of the charge.
Then I started thinking about why I ever shopped there, when I was a kid (not all that often, but I did work at the bookstore by the mall) -- it was to genderfuck, not for patches or vinyl or anything. I could go there and buy androgynous clothes and makeup and nobody mentation I was a freak. They just thought I was buying gloves.
Lots of burgh folks haven't heard of Hot Topic. It's strictly a suburban fetish, a mall thing. I don't think there are many or perhaps even any stand-alone stores. It exists undeniably to fill the niche for newly articulated punks, goths, and genderfuck kids like yourself, and the predominantly or inarticulately rebellious, where there isn't a mom and pop outlet.
Source: Bookslut