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Why I Hate: Hot Topic

Posted by Dave Corvin
on June 10th, 2009
Filed Under: Articles

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"So Indie"

Hot Topic is a retail chain with revenues over $750 million a year. They specialize in clothing and accessories for the youth market. Have you ever actually been inside these stores? They are filled with all sorts of weird gothic bizarreness alongside geeky stuff like video game and comic book characters. You can buy a ‘vampires suck’ t-shirt or a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers hoodie. This dichotomy between the dark metal-goth-punk stuff and the nerdy stuff is strange.

Hot Topic is making a killing off of teen angst and geek chic.

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