Getting a Backpack for Your Rocker That Won't Break the Budget

If your child isn't of the "preppie," cheerleader, jock or wanna-be gangster demographic then, chances are, that your child might be a rocker of some breed. And with this comes, possibly, many trips to stores such as Hot Topic, Torrid and the like for all of their music inspired paraphernalia and especially band merchandise.

This can be seen in living color around the end of July and going until the first few days of September, when the checkbook takes a hit and the kids are getting ready to go back to school. If your child is one of the aforementioned rocker kids (punk, emo, goth, Juggalo, etc), you most likely will run up quite a bill around this time at stores like Hot Topic, picking up such things as rock band pee chee folders, band pencils, pens, tee shirts and one more school essential that often is the most expensive item in the shopping bag; a book bag or backpack of some sort.

Rockers of all sorts are an expressive bunch, advertising their allegiance to their scene or favorite group on everything from their shirts, school supplies, hoodies and hats all the way up to how they carry it all around. And if they're really devoted to a scene or especially a band, chances are, at one time or another, they've expressed interest in a band promoting back pack or messenger bag, which are manufactured by the same companies and distributors utilizing cheap labor and materials to make their goods, who distribute acts' obscenely overpriced tour merchandise.

It is with such an idea in mind that I furnish these words of wisdom, from one rocker to the parents of others; avoid the ready-made, pre-decorated book bags and messenger bags by all means. That is, unless of course, you want to be buying more than one of the crucial storage units in the course of a school year.