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
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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
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