HOARD ALMIGHTY
Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month
FENDER X HELLO KITTY COLLECTION
£16.99 – £419.99
YOU’RE AT SOME
cool underground gig, you hip so-and-so, you. On the barrier yonder, you spy someone wearing Hello Kitty merch. Your blood boils, steam erupting from your ears. Before you brand them a poser, check yourself – Hello Kitty’s literally older than Iron Maiden. Celebrate 50 years of the world’s prettiest puss with this kawaii Fender collaboration.
You want Hello Kitty-branded TS cables, guitar straps, plectrums, gig bags, fuzz/ purrrr pedals? You got them. And if you fancy going the extra mile for that little rocker/lover of pastel in your life, there’s a full-on, 21-fret Hello Kitty Stratocaster, replete with adorable, vintage-style tuning pegs. Sure, it’s $500, but imagine how cute it’ll look cranking out Anaal Nathrakh riffs. We love grimness, solitude and chaos as much as you, but sometimes it’s nice for things to just, well, be nice. tinyurl.com/hellokittymetal