A storefront has been selling bondage pants, leather jackets and used vinyl out of the same corner of Lancaster, Pennsylvania since 1995, which is a long run for a punk shop. The tagline reads "Selling Everything Punk since 1995," and the catalog mostly backs it up. Angry, Young and Poor operates a real shop at 356 W Orange St with a phone number and posted hours, plus an e-commerce site that carries the same inventory. Nothing about the setup reads like a dropshipping flip from last quarter.
Clothing organized by wearer and style
The clothing side at Angry, Young and Poor is broad and clearly organized by who is wearing it: girls, guys, and kids or baby, with dresses, kilts, jeans, sweaters, socks, roller derby gear and plus-size options sitting alongside the obvious bondage pants and studded everything. Footwear gets its own section. So do studs and spikes, belts of the studded and bondage variety, and the small hardware that defines the look: chokers, garters, harnesses, bracelets. Patches, pins and stickers are there too, and the pins can be custom ordered, which is the sort of small touch a chain would never bother with.
Music selection includes vinyl and accessories
Shirts run deep at Angry, Young and Poor. Band tees cover punk and metal, then branch into movie and TV designs and a political rack, so the wall is not limited to one scene. Sweatshirts back them up. The music department is where the store reaches past costume territory and into something a collector would browse for real: vinyl including used records and Record Store Day releases, CDs, cassettes, slipmats, and even vinyl cleaning solution. A shop stocking cleaning solution next to the records is a shop run by people who play the records.
Accessories, home goods and other merchandise
Angry, Young and Poor lists bags, belt buckles, hats, keychains, necklaces, wallets, fishnets, sunglasses, umbrellas, scarves, playing cards, compact mirrors, braces and zippers under accessories. The home section carries drinkware, kitchenware, blankets, posters, shower curtains, towels, magnets and mousepads. Then come books, skateboards, action figures and dolls, hair products and pomade, and gift cards. The range is wide enough that I kept expecting a category to feel like padding, and the closest it gets is the home goods, which read more like merch overflow than a serious housewares aisle.
Recognizable brands in punk fashion
Brand selection is the part that shows the buyers at Angry, Young and Poor know the niche. More than 25 labels appear, including Tripp NYC, Too Fast Clothing, Kreepsville 666, Rothco, Jawbreaker Clothing, Lux De Ville, Switchblade Stiletto, Steady Clothing and Suavecito Pomade. Those are recognizable names to anyone who shops this corner of fashion, and stocking that many of them takes either real money tied up in inventory or long supplier relationships. For a shop pushing 30 years, probably both.
Customer reviews show mixed satisfaction
Here things get mixed, and pretending otherwise would do the reader no favors. Yelp shows 45 reviews and 29 photos for Angry, Young and Poor, which is a healthy amount of activity for a regional store, and a thread on Reddit's r/punk has people vouching for the place and praising fast shipping. Knoji lands at 4.0 out of 5 across 14 reviews. Those are the encouraging numbers.
The less flattering ones sit right next to them. SmartCustomer logs 13 reviews at 2.7 out of 5, and ComplaintsBoard comes in lower at 2.2 across 12 reviews. Trustpilot has only a single review, so nothing reliable can be drawn from it. The Better Business Bureau lists a profile but no accreditation. Read together, the scores point to a store that delights some customers and frustrates others, which is common for small online retailers where shipping accuracy and stock levels make or break an order. The Reddit comments on legitimacy at least put to rest any worry that the operation is a front.
Reaching the store is straightforward. The phone number is on the homepage, the street address turns up easily, and Angry, Young and Poor posts its hours: Wednesday and Thursday 11 to 5, Friday and Saturday 11 to 7, with Monday, Tuesday and Sunday closed. A buyer who wants to ask about an order before placing it has a clear way to do that, and the physical location means there is a real counter behind the website.
So the verdict splits along a clear line. The selection at Angry, Young and Poor is hard to argue with if you want a deep, well-stocked source for punk and alternative clothing, hardware and music from a shop that has survived since 1995 and stocks brands the scene respects. The mixed third-party scores are worth noting; placing a smaller first order to gauge shipping performance is a reasonable way to reduce the uncertainty. The catalog at Angry, Young and Poor is strong enough to earn the benefit of the doubt, while the lower-end ratings give a buyer a concrete reason to start small rather than place a large first order.
