Ramones' Tshirts and Hot Topic
This article in the NYT magazine is very cute and should be read before it's locked away under the annoying passwords and subs needed.
And here's a question for That's Plenty, Can you name everything you've ever boughten at a Hot Topic? I bought a Rudimentary Peni 7" and this weird contraption, like reverse pliers, to get my old earrings out for when I visited my great uncle.
Looked like this, but silver, and basically had to put the metal edges in the hoop and squeeze and it would extend making the little ball drop out.
1997: silver chain necklace i stopped wearing because a boy in my seventh-grade science class started calling me "anal beads."
2003: paul frank panties purchased for me by my then boyfriend (?) who was unimpressed by my current hanes-her-way inventory.
Those who would deride the Hot Topic purchased Ramones shirt as "Not Punk Rock" can refer to the sticker on Mike Watt's amp that says "Punk Rock is What We Made It". To claim that the only way to truly own something is to have been there is punk rock elitism, besides the "punk ethic" always has and always will be a mass of irreconcilable contradictions.
I'm old enough to have kids in high school, i don't but if I did I don't care where the fuck they bought their shirts as long as they weren't stealing mine.
An anarchist patch for my backpack when I was 11.
I have never boughten anything there. So I guess I'm either cool or broke. Or a little both.
I have never boughten anything there. So I guess I'm either cool or broke. Or a little both.