Ecstasy is still a thing

The Hippie Mafia will fuck you up if you do that.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-07-06/music/hippie-crack-nitr ous-mafia-boston/full/

I happen to know a hot raver chick in real life, so yes. Which makes it remarkably difficult to hate on this too much.

I'm with Pope Caius on this one. Papal infallibility and all that.

Knowing someone who is actually into raves should make you hate this even more, since it's like the Christmas Tree Shops of rave clothes.

I mean, most of the full on, flamboyantly dressed all the time, makeup wearing goths I've met were pretty great people but that's not going to stop me from making fun of Internet goths any more than knowing someone who lived with Juggalo foster parents in high school and swears they were some of the best parents she's ever seen (despite her hating ICP) is going to make me stop making fun of Internet juggalos.

Some of that stuff is pretty awesome in retrospect, but this is the rave equivalent of the shittiest parts of the early 80s 50s-retro fad.

Just a few weeks ago I was in Brooklyn and saw guys dressed in 90's raver wear. They couldn't have been older then twenty one. They were discussing what their favorite techno music meant to them opposed to the culture that listens to it in europe.

I bet they're not even playing Altern-8 or The Prodigy tracks.

Portland is wasted on you, baleen.

I am wasted in Portland.

I've got a few customers who are about 18-19 and REALLY into rave music. They both look like little kids smoking furiously to appear older. One of them showed up one day with a full sleeve tattoo of a vampire skull wearing an Indian headdress.

They stopped coming around when I stopped selling singles.