Shopping Online

From Demi Lovato to the dudes in Escape the Fate, every true scenester loves themselves some online shopping. Why go to the mall and face mall rats, cashiers, and that kid that always messages you on Myspace, when there are a plethora of stores bigger and better than those in the mall, right at your fingertips? After putting together your outfit on Polyvore.com , tab, tab, tab your browser to get your e-shop on. The great alternative to being the asshole that buys band tees at Hot Topic is, thanks to the new millennium,  in the form of pay pal and a figurative shopping cart. With BigCartel , Storenvy , Merch Direct , Zambooie , West Aspen , and the Victory , FBR , and Fearless Records e-stores for all of your band merch needs, you can be as hip as everyone who isn’t still in high school and sport all the legit merch, rather than the less than great Newbury Comics alternative . Besides the multitude of merch online stores, there are even more “independent clothing lines”, aka designers (or wannabe scene queens) making designs and pasting them on to t-shirts. There are some companies that are better than others (see: Stereobear Clothing & Applicant Apparel ), and there are others that are just embarrassing. Clip art is not cool…sorry Johnny Cupcakes…( every middle schooler that “designed a shirt” that goes for you too ) When you get sick of t-shirts and hoodies, there are even more online stores. Ebay has a bit of everything for scene kids, (not so) mall goths, and everyone in between. check out these babies to accompany your wool dreaded wig: HAWT. There is something for everyone on the internet, but the best of the best is the useless crap. Who doesn’t love it? Scene beans, put your hands down. For handmade trinkets there’s Etsy, and for the rest of it you can head to the girl everyone loves to hate, Kiki Kannibal, or Jac Vanek. But if you want to bring it back old school, you have to check out the gem we f [...]

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