Comments on: Virgin Records Megastores Closing Left And Right

By: Tania Maldonado

Tania Maldonado — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:18:34 +0000

I know that I am writing this months after the article and all the other comments were posted but I am a New Yorkker who is devastated about the stores having closed down. After many first dates ending with a trip to virgin and after having bought tons of cds for family members that don’t “download” or want to bother learning how to. There were so many sounds and songs that I discovered when walking into the store on Times Square that sort of shaped my life experiences. Who will recapture that for the young generations who soon will be looking for a place to go to to learn and listen to new tracks and artists? I am a lil nervous as to what will be of Union Square now that a huge gap is going to be left behind. With the economy the way that it is will that space now be infiltrtated by used goods stores or booleg sellers? It is scary to imagine New York without virgin, without Circuit City, and who knows what will be next to fall.

By: tennille

tennille — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:21:37 +0000

I live in new york and I am sooo sad that the store is closing down! I feel like it wuz a part of history that is being taken away!! i am a music lover and i do download music but its the fun times that i have had going to Times Square and walking into Virgin Records and getting lost in the isles. Meeting people and conversating about a song or artist….or bugging the salesperson by singing part of the song u just heard. Its being a part of the madness when an artist would come and sign autographs….. now with TRL and Virgin Records gone, what is Times Square going to be like…..BORING!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:33:40 +0000

Yeah, I’m sure I’m not the first person to ever entertain the idea and maybe they are trying to work something in to it. Best Buy here sucks as far as selection. FYE is by far the best place in my area to look for CD’s. There is a used CD place too but they only have mainly mainstream stuff that you already know about. I did find a Megadeth Acoustic 2 cd bootleg there that was a little too bootleg for me. The sound was horrible and the packaging was even worse.

By: Powerslave

Powerslave — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:21:17 +0000

I have an iPod and I love it. I still have a load of CDs, but I like the ipod because I can take it all with me. I also wouldn’t blame iTunes. They just took what people were already doing and put a price on it so the artists and labels could get a little money from it too. I would blame Bit torrents before blaming iTunes.

Giles, I’ve seen a few of those too but it’s always a bit raw and often separated. I think it would be great in an all in one file that you could simply flip through with Adobe Acrobat. Plus they could make it large enough to view the art in more of it’s true form. I would love that. You always seem to lose something in translation from the actual artwork and the small cd insert. I even think programs like iTunes could totally integrate it straight in to the software so it could be viewed and listened to in the same program instead of two separate ones. I’m sure this has already been thought about. I just hope they actually do it.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:57:41 +0000

You know, I wrote about this issue before. I don’t know how much you know about the semantic web, but there is a story that might help somewhat: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/db.semanticweb/index.html

it definitely sucks that there are less stores out there for browsing CDs. Lately, the only place I can go to is BestBuy. I got nothing against best buy, but that is a tremendous shame. Perhaps this is the reason why I refuse to give in and buy an Ipod. Clearly, iTunes is to blame.

By: giles

giles — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:40:20 +0000

not that i’m promoting it, but i have downloaded some stuff that has artwork, lyrics, history, quotes, links, and other stuff to do with the album or artist.

I know what you mean about wanting a physical copy for your money though.