The term 'Goth' was used by Ian Astbury who described Andi Sex Gang as a 
'gothic pixie' and popularised by the UK music magazines New Musical 
Express and Sounds (NME) and was used to describe a class of music. For 
some people that music became the basis for a 'way of life'. They
brought their own backgrounds and interests along and a sub-culture was 
formed and it took for itself the name Gothic.