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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Here we go again... |
| Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:02:41 -0400 |
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From: <TwangBoy@aol.com>
> here in Boston, the downtown location shifted to a Virgin megastore,
> which started out ok, with a pretty good (if very steeply priced)
> import section, but at least it survives...tho the venerable Newbury
> Comics store a block down Newbury Street HAS to siphon sales
> away.....
Actually, that Virgin Megastore is supposedly going away by the end of
the year, because the building has been sold. There have been rumors
that Virgin will relocate (I suspect to one of the dead HMVs, either
in Harvard Square or Downtown Crossing), but I kinda doubt it and
won't miss it if it does go, simply because the flagship Newbury
Comics (my favorite record store chain since the heyday of Sound
Warehouse circa 1985) *is* less than a block away and that's where my
money goes.
> The Tower store that was there was a pretty darn good one....found
> stuff there over the years I'd not have found anywhere.....now it
> just leaves one in Harvard Square which kinda sucks, and one
> Burlington, MA, which is no prize, but still nice to pop into when
> you're in the neighborhood.....
The Harvard Square Tower, as I've complained here regularly, is
absolutely the worst major-chain record store I have ever been in. I
have no idea how it's still there, especially since -- again --
there's a huge Newbury Comics half a block away that's eating its
lunch.
Are there really no record store chains in Chicago but Tower anymore?
Huh.
S
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