90’s | The History of Hot Topic

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1989 // Skulls, crucifixes, spike bracelets, pyramid belts and other hard-to-find stuff in the mall? Done & done.

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Now I wanna be your dog.

1990 // You ask – we listen. We bring in music tees, and the rock wall is born.

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So much wonderfulness going on right here.

1991 // We become known as the loudest store in the mall.

Which means we basically rattle our neighbors’ walls. Listen to Hot Topic’s 25 Years of Music Spotify playlist!

1991 // We were labeled punks, geeks, weirdos, goths, rockers – and we didn’t care. It was our passion for music and pop culture that mattered.

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A team like no other.

1991 // Something’s missing. Oh, yeah. Clothes. We bring Lip Service and Tripp to the mall.

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TRIPP'n.

1992 // Goth store? Homey don’t play that!

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We sold TONS of In Living Color Homey the Clown tees.

1992 // We move our headquarters yet again.

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Small space, but that's ok...we had MTV (when they had music videos.)

1993 // Remember MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball? We do, and hold our first in-store appearance with its host, Riki Rachtman.

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Yeah, fangirling was big back then...and so was the hair.

1993 // We shoot our first (and only) commercial.

BTW, some of the employees in it still work here!

1993 // First store in the mall to sell body jewelry.

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Barbells, hoops and plugs, oh my!