The band I was in, in Michigan - I met the vocalist (again, after several years) at the mall, dressed in a similar way.
We went to school together - he was a couple years ahead of me...At that time, he looked somewhat like Layne from the Man in the Box video, hair, everything - a few months before it was "cool", and grunge took off.
Later, when I ran into him at the mall, he was dressed all goth. Corpse paint, everything. Less than a year later, Manson got "big" and everyone was doing it.
I laughed both times because he was just doing his own thing, just a little too early to be the "cool" guy.