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Personally, I'm not about to bash someone from owning things from Hot Topic, shopping at Hot Topic, or even.... well... maybe just a little for actually liking Hot Topic. Some of the nicer goth-shite I own I scowered that store for. It was overpriced, and I hated being in there while they blasted Coheed and Cambria in my face, but oh well.
It's only when someone begins considering themselves "goth" for shopping in Hot Topic does it really begin to bother me. Hot Topic is just as "goth" as Charlotte Russe (which has some very nice, also overpriced, goth pieces now and then). Their long formal black dress section was long ago replaced with throws of Sponge Bob, their vampiric posters long ago replaced by Kurt Cobain shots and various painful bands. If you can get good stuff there, more power to you, but the majority of that place makes me want to release a can of ebola on the whole damned mall.
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