I'm a teenage frankenstein, the local freak with the twisted mind

This weekend was Sonisphere festival, which will have it's own dedicated posts but for now, slightly on topic, the Sonsisphere wristbands have a promotional code on them to use on the Hot Topic website. Now Hot Topic was something we (the Cox family) discovered on holiday in Florida about 8 years ago. As a bit of a greeb/mini mosher/whichever term you choose it was amazing that they had these huge chain shops which catered to the rock contingent; in Reading you either had to go to teeny tiny Hard Edge or Rock-a-round, or make the trip to Camden. Hot Topic had walls of band t-shirts, belt buckles, studded wrist cuffs, stripey socks, novelty laces; I spent a sizeable amount of my holiday allowance in there. Back in Blighty I used to browse online and yearn to live in a world where everyone dressed like that and was groovy to that beat.

Years later and the rock and roll elements of my style have evolved and matured a bit (I still love a good skull print and nearly bought one of those goth cuffs at Sonisphere cos it as only £3...) but curiosity sent me to their website again (which now has a European counterpart). Not much has changed and I love that it still caters to those rock fans who don't care about being 'fashionable', rock and roll is so fashionable and mainstream now, everyone's a fecking goff come winter.

I did like a few things on the site, here's my pick:



They also have a cool Aerosmith t-shirt I'd not seen before, for their album Pump, only £11.99