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Posted: May 25 2010 12:11 am

username wrote:

SSNintendo wrote:

Only things I ever bought at Hot Topic was a Nintendo Mousepad, Mega Man shirt, "Know Your Roots", and a Beastie Boys shirt.

whats Know Your Roots?

Actually kinda neat, but the font is stupid.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I recently bought a shirt from hot topic that had this image on it:

I kinda wish I had one with this on it though:

Posted: May 25 2010 12:20 am

yup. that 2nd image is WAY cooler

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I think I'm gonna get a poster printed of it at sam's club.

Posted: May 25 2010 03:33 am

The reason that I don't shop at Hot Topic is the same reason that I don't buy Apple products: the userbase. That, and the shirts that they print on kind of suck. And there isn't one anywhere close to here. This reminds me, I have to use my T-shirt transfers that I've had for months.

Posted: May 25 2010 11:04 am

HT is a store I go into and ignore everyone because they're goth-heads and just look at what they have. I mean, who in their right mind DOESN'T want this shirt:

It's actually not a bad store to go window shopping in, and they often have great music shirts too. It's just the goth that gets tired. And their prices are a bit too high, too.

Posted: May 25 2010 11:42 am

username wrote:

yup. that 2nd image is WAY cooler

Mostly, because Dan is in it, I think.

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

I've been to my local Hot Topic a few times over the last six months or so, and I swear I've never seen it so dead in there since it opened about ten years back.

Their prices are too damn high, and some of the shirts are cool, but they're poor quality.

Posted: May 25 2010 04:55 pm

I'm pretty sure that if they opened up a Hot Topic here, it would be mostly goth shit. The market on game shirts, while not oversaturated, is already sufficiently full.

Posted: May 25 2010 11:33 pm

Hacker wrote:

B.) Buy it because they know Mario's popular

username wrote:

its the flavor of the month. the 80's are all the rage, so hipsters think its cool to wear retro shirts.

This, pretty much. Hot Topic is full of 80% scenester crap that shallow teenagers like to pretend they're into because it makes them feel like they have an opinion on something.

About that other twenty percent, though...Hot Topic has some pretty good stuff if you dig and look around. I've gotten a Cure t-shirt, a Pearl Jam t-shirt, a bunch of neat video game shirts, a wallet with the classic NES controller on it, and a Resident Evil hoodie there.

Blackout wrote:

1. They are really over priced.

2. Most of their clothes are shoddy and won't last very long.

The former is very much true, although most of the t-shirts I've gotten there have lasted a good two years or so (though don't bother buying any flannel from there).

Posted: May 26 2010 02:08 am

Cameron wrote:

Hacker wrote:

B.) Buy it because they know Mario's popular

username wrote:

its the flavor of the month. the 80's are all the rage, so hipsters think its cool to wear retro shirts.

This, pretty much. Hot Topic is full of 80% scenester crap that shallow teenagers like to pretend they're into because it makes them feel like they have an opinion on something.

About that other twenty percent, though...Hot Topic has some pretty good stuff if you dig and look around. I've gotten a Cure t-shirt, a Pearl Jam t-shirt, a bunch of neat video game shirts, a wallet with the classic NES controller on it, and a Resident Evil hoodie there.

Blackout wrote:

1. They are really over priced.

2. Most of their clothes are shoddy and won't last very long.

The former is very much true, although most of the t-shirts I've gotten there have lasted a good two years or so (though don't bother buying any flannel from there).

I consider a good shirt one that lasts about four years, though. That might be a bit outrageous, but I'm just now retiring some shit that I got in middle school.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

The designs on Hot Topic shirts are getting ridiculously big and ugly. I went in to replace my classic-style Ramones t-shirt, and found that they replaced the regular Let's Go Eagle Design with just a gigantic logo that takes up the whole shirt and RAMONES written with letters the size of my head.

Posted: May 26 2010 05:06 am

I usually duck into HT if I find one, like most of you said because of the cool game and comic shirts they have. Got a wonderful Deadpool shirt there once, along with a different style "know your roots" (that had blocky letters instead of that ugly font there.) Also got a fantastic Thundercats logo tee, and a GI Joe wrist band (that I secretly wear under my gloves when we're out in the field...it cracks me up.)

Overall I hate the place, but I grit my teeth and do business with 'em because...c'mon, who else sells Thundercats stuff at my local mall??

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

The designs you see on the shirts, particularly the band shirts, are also those more modern "tattoo" and looks like it "has paint splattered on it" designs which I hate.

Posted: May 26 2010 11:04 am

u know, most of these shirts u can find online. and u can usually find better ones online as well.

im only saying this cause i HATE going to the mall. im sure im not the only one. its probably cuz im old, but whatev.

and get OFF MY DAMN LAWN!!!

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

I hate the mall, too.

If I need a shirt, I just hit up eBay.

Posted: May 26 2010 11:54 am

Greg the White wrote:

The designs on Hot Topic shirts are getting ridiculously big and ugly. I went in to replace my classic-style Ramones t-shirt, and found that they replaced the regular Let's Go Eagle Design with just a gigantic logo that takes up the whole shirt and RAMONES written with letters the size of my head.

THIS. I don't know if that's the trend now, because even when I search for band shirts online, it's hard to find ones that don't have gigantic print/images that take up the entire front of the shirt. I like my t-shirt imagery to be smaller, and generally centered upon the chest. I don't recall it being that difficult to find shirts that met this criteria back in the 90's.

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

I've noticed that, too. I don't know who thought that was a good idea, but it wasn't. It's getting harder and harder to find shirts that look more like the older ones, so whenever I buy one, it's usually second hand and old.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

There needs to be a silent rule that if you have not played ANY classic mario games (Super Mario bros. 1, or 2, or 3, or Super Mario World) then you CANNOT wear these shirts and be considered "cool" even in the loosest sense

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I remember a while ago they had this really rad light blue zip up sweatshirt that had the R.P.D. lettering on it. I wish I could find that shirt now.

Posted: May 26 2010 10:23 pm

username wrote:

u know, most of these shirts u can find online. and u can usually find better ones online as well.

im only saying this cause i HATE going to the mall. im sure im not the only one. its probably cuz im old, but whatev.

and get OFF MY DAMN LAWN!!!

For real guy, I would bring a cattle prod to the mall if I was allowed, to many god damn smelly people in the way.

Posted: May 27 2010 12:02 am

Blackout wrote:

username wrote:

u know, most of these shirts u can find online. and u can usually find better ones online as well.

im only saying this cause i HATE going to the mall. im sure im not the only one. its probably cuz im old, but whatev.

and get OFF MY DAMN LAWN!!!

For real guy, I would bring a cattle prod to the mall if I was allowed, to many god damn smelly people in the way.

and too many obnoxious teens. i dont know if i was ever like that, but i know im getting old when they just annoy me

Posted: May 28 2010 05:25 pm

The only time I was ever in a Hot Topic was when I went to a mall in the early 2000s with a friend and saw a Thrall/Demonsweatlive T-shirt. Of course, I bought it, because I'd just lost the black skull w/horns one I got at the State Theater show on Halloween in Detroit (my first road trip where I didn't come home to my parents for over a day, coincidentally). Other than that, I dunno. People can buy whatever the hell they want, but if I talk to someone wearing, say, a Zelda t-shirt and they can't tell me what the old man says in the first cave, I might punch 'em.