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2005 // Everyone falls in love with Napoleon Dynamite and buys our Vote for Pedro tee.

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The Hot Topic tee that sold like dynamite.

FEBRUARY, 2005 // Fortune magazine ranks Hot Topic #20 in their 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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We hit #20!

APRIL 10, 2005 // Shirley from Garbage brings on the feels when she thanks a couple of Hot Topic associates in the liner notes for the band’s Bleed Like Me album.

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Check it out: Friggin' awesome.

MARCH 21, 2006 // MC Lars says Hot Topic is not punk rock.

OCTOBER 7, 2006 // Hot Topic managers fill the audience at the 2006 Spike TV Scream Awards.

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The hottest ticket in horror.

NOVEMBER 15, 2006 // Foxxy from Comedy Central’s Drawn Together shops at Hot Topic.

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Foxxy's got great taste.

DECEMBER 16, 2006 // MAD TV debuts Tickle Me Emo.

Available at Hot Topic(s). Batteries not included.

JULY, 2007 // Punk rock and culture collide in the documentary “Punk’s Not Dead.”

We make a special appearance.

DECEMBER, 2007 // MAD Magazine parodies us with the Not-So-Hot Topic catalog.

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Just the highest honor ever!

MARCH 19, 2008 // Instead of taking a day off from touring, bands like Black Tide, Job For a Cowboy, and Panic! At the Disco play secret shows just for our Hot Topic customers.

Sleep? Who needs that.