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  • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I was working at my first job 20 years ago, which was at Hot Topic lol

    We had a CD changer that we could load whatever we wanted in there and play that shit loud as hell and irritate the bougie candle store that was next to us; I mostly put in stuff like Manson, NIN, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Rasputina, Switchblade Symphony and sometimes if I was really feeling up to pissing them off I'd play some Cannibal Corpse or Type O Negative, they really didn't like the song "Kill All The White People", that one got em to complain to mall management about us lmao

    God I was such a little shit back then

    • quartz242 [she/her]M
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      4 years ago

      Wow havnt heard the same switchblade symphony in awhile. Them and Inkkubus Sukkubus were my jams, I was very goth 20 years ago. I think that and the angst of industrial helped cope with my gender dysphoria.

      • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah Hot Topic partnered with Cleopatra Records back then and put out a few great compilation CDs called Dark Noise, they had some great stuff on there like Leather Strip, Rosetta Stone and one of em had a fuckin banger of a remix of Christian Death's Cervix Couch, imma try to find it on youtube real quick (Hell yeah, I found it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elocs8q33xQ )

        Also yeah, there was a great group of kids that worked there, including at least 2 kids that in hindsight were definitely trans, but it was a very different time back then so they weren't out or anything. Also I had SO MANY girls hit on me when I worked there, kinda look back with regret at letting my anxiety prevent me from going out with some of them.

        • quartz242 [she/her]M
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          4 years ago

          Hey that's an awesome experience though, well sounds like it. I worked fast food to go to hot topic to buy stuff. Fucking consumer based individual expression. Thanks for sharing brought on the nostalgia vibes. I

          • Leper_Messiah [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, those were definitely some good times! Fun to look back once in a while, this post just got all that nostalgia flooding into my brain