re: GOTH? Are you?

I was really into all of that music but without the makeup and only black/dark clothes. I went to the Blue Crystal a good bit back in the mid to late eighties. Saw KMFDM at the new Orleans music hall with about 30 other people in the crowd. Still listen to old Goth and industrial type music 60% of the time.

How did it spread? First and foremost, college radio stations (WTUL) then, MTV's "120 Minutes" late night show if you had cable, magazines, word of mouth, songs played at the clubs, and seeing every live show possible, like NIN for $1 at Tipitinas or $12 for Jane's Addiction and Love and Rockets in Nov 1987. I don't recall the name "Goth" being used to describe it till later in the early nineties.