Three More Virgins Closing

[BeBop]

I think one NY closing is old, old news. Today was the first I'd heard of the San Francisco closing (by the end of April, it was reported). Maybe it's well-known locally, but I don't get to SF but three or four times a year. (Today, I'm just passing through the airport.)

http://www.kcbs.com/Virgin-Megastore-to-An...Closure/3918932

[trane_fanatic]

It was only a matter of time. Those fuckers were expensive.

R.I.P. Virgin Megastore

http://sfist.com/2009/02/26/virgin_megasto...se_in_april.php

The Virgin Megastore at the corner of Stockton and Market will be closing its doors in late April, according to KCBS. This comes on the heels of Virgin announcing the closure of two new York stores, including their US flagship store in Times Square. The store is shuttering for obvious reasons: skyrocketing rent prices, iTunes, what's a CD?, the recession, the evil interwebs. While we can handle SF Chronicle stopping operations. we'll miss the Virgin Megastore. Pray to God another trite museum doesn't go in its place.

[BillF]

Those fuckers were expensive.

virgins?

[BruceH]

I think one NY closing is old, old news. Today was the first I'd heard of the San Francisco closing (by the end of April, it was reported). Maybe it's well-known locally, but I don't get to SF but three or four times a year. (Today, I'm just passing through the airport.)

http://www.kcbs.com/Virgin-Megastore-to-An...Closure/3918932

I could have sworn it closed last year.

Well, I won't shed any tears. Tower was a MUCH better store. Better prices, better selection...everything. Virgin was pretty useless.

[AndrewHill]

Its becoming harder and harder to browse through cd bins anymore; something that I enjoy and miss doing!

[BeBop]

I'm still trying to come up with a 'wise man and three virgins' joke,

[BFrank]

That's too bad.........but I can't say I've been in there in over 5 years.

It's more disturbing that Stacey's Bookstore is closing in March. I go there a lot at lunch time.

[Rooster_Ties]

I was at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square about 10 years ago -- and went through both their classical and jazz sections pretty much A to Z -- and couldn't find even three (3!) CD's in the whole store, that I couldn't easily find a number of other place (yes, I'm including "online" from like Amazon), and find for at least 30% to 40% less to boot.

Sure, their inventory was fairly robust, but I never saw even ONE title that made me stop in my tracks and say "I need to buy this NOW". It was just disc after disc after disc (must have scanned the spines of several thousand discs), "yup, I've seen that -- yup, I've seen that -- yup, I've seen that".

I'm guessing they had 50% to 60% of all the domestic, in-print, "available from every mass distributer out there" CD's in their distributer's database -- and ALL of it at absolutely FULL list price (if not even higher).

I've found WAY more "gotta buy this now" stuff in random Barnes & Noble or Borders Bookstores (though not lately, that's for sure), than I think I'd ever find in any Virgin Megastore.

Edited February 27, 2009 by Rooster_Ties