About

We are Ritual Youth:

an act of collective consciousness, exercising analytical praxis in a world of performance. What we offer isn’t just music and collectibles, it’s a ritual of curation, a way of unearthing objects and ideas that refuse to die. From records, toys, and tapes to books, films, and figures, our eBay store is a shifting archive of the strange, the heavy, and the unforgettable.

We like to talk about music, booze, art, politics, and video games, not from the shallow angle of consumption, but as a kind of spiritual dissection. What makes good punk good? Why does hardcore inspire such devotion? What secrets does black metal guard that make it both nuanced and obnoxious?

If profit is the measure of quality, then why is the most profitable often the most empty, vapid, and shallow? Greed? Ego? We step aside from those measures. Our compass is the drive of creation itself — the raw force behind expression. Even the most derivative aesthetic choices hold validity in their context, and in the ways they evolve and mutate through time.

Ritual Youth is where we explore that drive, through the objects we collect, the sounds we love, and the questions that haunt us…

It fits perfectly in my pain