1982

What got me into goth was this friend of mine who had noticed I liked Joy Divison and had been listening to a little bit of Molchat Doma. I had been talking about how I wished I could find more music like it and she literally went. “U know there’s like an entire subculture around it right?”

Look, I knew goths existed, but I didn’t know what their music was like. So she made me this playlist and honestly if anyone else wants to get into the subculture I’m linking this playlist and it’s sequel because these playlists were the ones that made me fall in love w/ goth/post punk:

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Молчат Дома - Этажи

Real, strutting my way to college/work/wherever with Lucretia My Reflection blasting down my ear holes never gets old.

Goth music will have a rhythmic bass guitar with spooky synth that makes you want to walk at a steady pace and fucking get someone

Want deathhawk… Also want to keep long hair… help.

I can’t talk enough about how much I HATE Urban Outfitters. I’ve been in there a few times with other people and you look around and it’s all just overpriced shit. Sweaters, normal ass sweaters, with a couple of safety pins stuck in it, for like… €68/£60/$72. Faux leather jackets that actually feel like they’re going to fall the fuck apart within a few months that are pushing towards the hundreds in price.

I think this just as much a complaint about fast fashion in general as well as how it effects alternative subcultures concerning how so many of these places try to leech off some subcultures fashion that was based in DIY but I genuinely will never understand why people settle for actual daylight robbery.

On god to everything you’ve said here. I just wanted to say pre ripped shit can go straight the fuck to hell. I’ve seen places literally selling that crap for idiotic amounts of money.

I always feel so weird when I see companies making mega expensive “punk” and “goth” clothes. I used to know this other person who kept on wanting to get into the goth scene, and another one of my friends literally was so willing to help her and get her started out with like music recs and clothing tips and she’d constantly tell us. “Oh, but dressing goth isn’t accessible for me. I don’t have the money.”

Which y’know makes sense, not everybody has the money to drop on getting goth clothes. Especially when your priorities are literally keeping a roof over your head and paying bills. We’re all from working class families here. But then we just kind of realised she was referring to the shit you’d find on like… Killstar or Dollskill and everything made a lot more sense. It’s been making me think. Ever since alternative subcultures such as goth, such as punk, even grunge tbf have made their way into mainstream fashion trends on the internet it’s made people believe that the only way you’re able to get clothes to “dress the part” is to fork out shite tonnes of money to these ridiculously overpriced online clothing stores. (You don’t even have to dress goth for example to be goth because it’s a music based subculture but that’s a whole other thing.)

The way trends are today with this whole, “aesthetic” thing along with the consumerist HELL that is fast fashion sparks a wave people just buying swathes of overpriced clothing to hop onto a clothing trend that is actually ripped from a subculture they don’t really understand? Like part of the whole core of these subcultures is that we are anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist. You are a fucking joke.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking negatively about people who truly want to get into these subcultures. There is nothing wrong with that at all, of course there isn’t. I’m talking about people who will see a fashion trend and just hop onto it and really have no idea what they’re doing. (This is part of the reason why I believe it’s unlikely we’ll ever have a new subculture as big as previous ones ever again because of just how everything is a trend now.)

Fashion that has been born from these subcultures has always been DIY. Making your own battle jackets, thrifting pieces of clothing and tweaking them to be how you want. Like… I don’t know about you babes but I don’t think goths in the 80’s were getting their clothes from fucking Hot Topic.

The fact that companies are now and have been making ridiculously priced pieces of clothing to capitalise off of: 1.) People who want to hop on trends because they don’t want to make the clothes they just want the style now, and 2.) People who want to genuinely get into subcultures such as punk and goth but may be misguided as to where to get clothing just makes me so fucking mad because it makes getting into the fashion within these subcultures seem inaccessible and consumerist-ridden when they’re absolutely not meant to be.

Trends and “aesthetics” have killed the possibility of us having another subculture with actual substance and depth to it, with music, real-life scenes, a community and all that. And I hate it, I hate that everything now is a fucking trend and people can’t just stay and foster an idea because they’re too busy going along with the crowd. It’s actually sad.

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THE CULT ARE PLAYING AS DEATH CULT IN MY CITY IN NOVEMBER BUT TICKETS ARE LIKE SO EXPENSIVE HELP ME DO I GET THEM

Used to know a bitch that’d listen to ashnikko like it was religion and then she got pissed off when I told her that it’s not goth music and she’s not goth.

There were recommendations made of goth bands and she straight up refused to listen to them too.

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