Posted February 14, 2008
By tsiegler

Wearing your favorite band’s name on your t-shirt automatically makes you cooler than everyone else. That’s what you’d like to think, anyway.

I say this because over the course of two weekends, I’ve bought three shirts from Hot Topic down at the Anderson Mall, which are three more shirts that I bought from that store all last year. Usually when I go in there, all I see are shirts of bands that appeal to a far different demographic than your humble blogger (namely, suburban white kids who are angry at how bad their lives are because their parents can’t get the right color Blackberry for their birthday. They said teal, dammit!). In other words, I stick out like a sore non-pierced, non-emo thumb.

But hey, it takes all kinds, especially if they have money. And I had enough for two tees (a DCFC shirt that looked like yellow vomit on blue print, and a classic “target logo” Who shirt). This past Sunday, I decided to add to my indie street cred with a Postal Service tee where a girl seems to be shaking hands with an anthropomorphic stick of butter. I sh*t you not, I paid $15 for it. Who’s fooling who?

Well, at least I’ll look cool when I’m holding a “will fight for food” cardboard sign around my homeless neck. Take that, losers!