Teen Gothic

I’m currently looking for a prom dress and i’m having a hard time finding anything reasonably priced or my style.

Anyone have any interesting links, memories or names relating to online discussion groups from around 1979 to 1993 that were centered around discussion of goth and post punk bands and the scene as it was happening? This would be through BBS and Usenet primarily before the internet took over in 1994-1996.

I just think its fascinating to read and document such things, even if a few low percentage of people knew about online discussion groups and were using modems to discuss goth music.

As you know, online activity was thing way before the latter 90s and it was centered more around computer nerds, hacking, specific industries, universities with much less casual users and with a different and much less developed infrastructure than the modern internet.

The first public goth sites on the internet from my memory date to 1994-1995, they were just a few, seem to have operated as personal homepage fan websites, often seemed very basic, limited or poorly written.

I believe there few bands posting music samples around then I can't confirm the names, since there weren't that many bands and each had a few tracks and music sampling was less common until 1997. They were likely to be on the Internet Underground Music Achieve (IUMA) or Den's Cyberden around that time, but I can't be certain.

So this doesn't include the obvious; ebay, amazon, discogs, garage sales sites. What are some places, companies, distros and labels that tend to have low prices, good variety and really good deals on physical goth music, mainly cds. Problem with discogs and the like is that you easily end up paying hundreds of dollars for a few albums, which may not even be rare, when you could be saving.