R.I.P.
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Yet another one bites the dust!
The huge Virgin Megastore in NYC's Times Square is soon-to-be closing its doors.
Sad.
[Photo by Jefferson Siegel.]
Posted: June 6, 2008 at 7:45 pm
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R.I.P.Filed under: Music Minute
Yet another one bites the dust! The huge Virgin Megastore in NYC's Times Square is soon-to-be closing its doors. Sad. [Photo by Jefferson Siegel.] Posted: June 6, 2008 at 7:45 pm
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Are you serious? I was there last week. I met Miley Cyrus there, 2 years ago. I am so sad!
NOOOO!
I live in england and theyve all closed down here.
Ive been too New York twice in the past 2 years and gone there and love it cause its so huge!
It cant close now =[
Times Square will not be there same!
WEEP ='[
Re: alex – Omg thats my oppinion too!
I lost all my downloaded music cause my pc fucked up, so now i buy all cds!
My friends cant understand why, so i cant wait till their pc's fuck up haha!
Wow…that's big…we had one here in Chicago–pretty good for finding imports, singles, etc.–that closed up shop in the past year or so. So sad. So sad for the music industry, as a whole.
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I NEED A PICTURE OF CRISTIANO RONALDO AND HIS SEXY MAN THIGHS!!!!
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I MISS TIMES SQUARE. I WAS THERE LAST DEC. AND LESLIE LOHAN'S FATHER WAS PLAYING JOSEPH AT THE NATIVITY SCENE. I ALMOST PELTED HIM WITH A CHOCOLATE SANTA CLAUS!!!!! BUT THAT'D BE A WASTE OF CHOCOLATE
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I'M HAVING A BORING GLOOMY SATURDAY…MY FRIENDS HAD TO CANCEL ON MY PICNIC…FAMILY ILLNESS…..SO SOMEONE NEEDS TO HOLLER AT A BITCH!!!!!!
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HOLLER HO'S CAUSE IT'S JAZZ BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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P.S. ROCK ON HILLARY CLINTON!! MUCH PROPS TO YOU GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!!!
IT NOTS ABOUT A DECLINE IN CD SALES, IT ABOUT HIGHER RENT THAT VIRGIN MEGASTORE HAS TO PAY. instead of 50 dollars a square metre, 750.
I see Idina Menzel!!!!!!1
Why? Internet took over everything!
its not the only virgin megastore in nyc….WHO CARES its nto a freakin landmark. You gonna raise public awareness the nest time a Starbucks shuts down too. go to the freakin mall.
thats so unfair,that store had anything you could ever imagine.
NOOO! when i went to new york, the first thing i did was going to virgin at midnight to buy cd's and merch D: they have sooo many things we don't get in germany D:
i don't want it to be closed
It's happennig all over America, especially Michigan.
In the UK all the Virgin megastores have been taken over and are now called Zavii, and are much improved pricewise on Virgin megastore.
Virgin lost their best, and only, money maker (Janet Jackson). they haven't had any hit artists since, so it was only a matter of time. plus, has anyone seen how much they charge for CD's??? they should have BEEN shut down!!
with a poster of whoriah scarey in the front of the store, who would want to shop there?
For everyone who is happy, just know there are 100's of people losing their jobs. We dont make the prices, but the labels and artist who get paid millions of dollars help create this insane market. It's sad to know you won't be able to go into a store and look around for old CDs, so enjoy going to your amazon.com and also Itunes, but let's see if you can find everything you want.
they closed one of the stores in la
WHAT!
its one of the best stores in new york!
i'm devastated!
The one in downtown Chicago closed last year. In place of it there's a huge Forever 21 store. I dont see how that's going to stay open either
Best Buy Is Coming There! Prepare Bitches!
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
they cant close
the one in miami closed about a year ago.
there's still nothing in there.
i think that the one in disney world is still there. it'll probabbly be there a while cause disney usually has places that have gone out of business in most other cities.
aw! sad day
the one in chicago closed a while ago too 
i heard rent there was something like 1 million a month or something but still expensive!
Awww that's really sad! I'm glad I'm going to New York City in 2 weeks I will at least get to go in and look around before it closes…..i wonder if it actually has to do with poor cd sales? If they would sell all albums at $9.99 I would buy more rather than on i-tunes. But as posted before…..i-tunes song's are not as loud as a cd. Hmm…Sam The Records Man closed here in Canada and all the Music World's a few months ago……what's going on!!? We only have HMV now…..
nnnoooooooooo!!! ever since that place opened, i've bought all of cds and dvds there except for some special orders like stuff that was never offered here. that blows, it was the best thing to do in times square, now i've lost my favorite music store and reason to be in that neighborhood. what are people supposed to do, hang out in the toys'r'us store? it'll probably become a topshop or a bank or some such crap. you could go in there and find any album or movie instantly. so sad.
Not sad. They should have gotten on the mp3 train long ago instead of trying to fight it.
They should have also been fighting the high prices of CDs that was supposed to drop but never did.
This is just karma taking it's toll.
Re: alex THE INTERNET GENERATION IS SCREWED. – '
It's called BACKUPS tardo.
Having a DVD full of music is the same as having a CD full of music. Think before you post.
Re: Lisa –
Don't blame your lack of knowledge about PCs or mp3s on the format. I have mp3s I've made or gotten since 1998. Yes, that's 10 whole years. I don't think I've even had a CD last that long without getting a skip in it.
Enough of the FUD.
Re: linds people need to quit downloading music on their computers and go out and buy an actual, physical cd…too bad we're all lazy – Nothing to do with being lazy. People don't want robbed every time they buy music anymore. The people have spoken.
why???????? is the best store ever.. soo cool… i love this store! now i'm sad
Someone here said it's ONLY the rent that's behind the closure of this iconic store, but it's not.
Whilst high rent contributes to the failure of the store, music piracy is the ultimate problem. Software like iTunes and LEGAL downloading also contribute to it, but WOULDN'T affect it so much if people didn't obtain their music via LimeWire, WinMx etc.
Also, to whoever said Virgin don't have any good signed bands since Janet Jackson, I'd love to see/hear your basis for that theory. Also, Virgin Entertainment and Virgin [retail] and Virgin Atlantic et al are under the same banner, yes - but not run as one company and correct me if I'm wrong, Virgin is in cahoots with EMI, so if your theory is correct, blame EMI - not Richard Branson.
iTunes hurting Virgin records is just Virgin records not moving with the trend. Had they came out with something like iTunes with the SAME BUSINESS plan as Apple's (It was their business plan that made the the top) they wouldn't have had the problems they did. But no, they, and other BIG BUSINESS record industries wanted to keep things the way they were.
When CDs and CD players first came out they were expensive. The recording companies said that price on both would go down a bunch after such R&D costs were met. Well the price of CD players DID go down. A bunch. But the price of the CD stayed the same extreme rate. (You could buy a tape of a band for $7.99 and it costs them more to make tapes than it did CDs) People complained for years but there was nothing they could do about it.
In comes the computer age. People that were tired of getting ROBBED by the RIAA and their business partners pretty much said FU and boycotted these places and got their music elsewhere. Illegal or legal.
They are to blame for their own demise. This is called Karma. They got too greedy.
BTW the FUNNIEST part of this whole downloading music thing. I've bought MORE CDs now than I did before I could download music. Why? Because I could actually hear the music before buying it. No one buys a car without testing it out or looking under the hood.
But the thing was, the RIAA and studios were making a buttload of money from CDs from crap pre-made acts that had one hit. You payed out the ass for that ONE song. People now could download the CD, realize that there is only one song on it that they liked and didn't buy it. THAT is what hurt the recording industry. These types of "talent" are easier to deal with because most are not creative and the studios get to control every part of their music.
The blame is all on themselves.
Most of my friends have BOUGHT more CDs than we used to as well. (If you really like a song or CD, you are gonna want the best sound quality of it, which only a CD can bring, not an mp3) Having said that, I rip CDs lossless. And the live stuff I've gotten online that you can't buy in stores I've had for over a decade now.
Again WTF happened to my avatar? Perez is your site fing up?
not again,
they closed down our virgin megastore and replaced it with an HMV.
:(
Re: beanbe – uhh no honey, he wrote it correctly as "its"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
you could freakin' live in the Virgin Megastore.
So not cool.
Aw, I went to NYC a bunch for a few years in a row awhile back, and I was so excited to shop in that store. I bought an import I couldn't find anywhere else!
No!! I love this place! If the one on Times Square is closing, they must be in REAL big trouble. There are always tons of tourists there.
I loved that store, it was so kickass. Damnit ;-;
What the hell is going to be put there!?
THANKS TO ALL THOSE THIEVES THAT KEEP STILLING MUSIC THRU THE WEB!
As sad as is it, our generation is coming to an end.
NO!!! PLEASE NO!!! ITS AN AWESOME STORE!! CHECK MY BLOG:
WWW.SPICEMADONNA.SKYROCK.COM
OMG!A petition should be started to stop them shutting the store down!Where will I get all of my cool tee's from now?!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO NYC???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is closing due to fucking insane rent increases!!!!!!!!!! I have been living in NYC for about 7 years now and in this time I have seen soooooooooooo many great places close! THIS HAS TO STOP! I LOVE VIRGIN MEGASTORE!!! So sad! Times and Union Square will not be the same without it. COME ON NYC…DON'T LOSE YOUR APPEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the fuck is going to close next???!!!!!!!!!
um sad? I am happy, fuck all the huge music stores, by local bithces, keep music out of the hands of the corperations!
Nooooooooooooooo! The last of the mega giant. Boo Hoo! No more wondering aisles for hard-to-find music. Now we're delegated to going on line or fucking Target - even worse Wal-Mart! Ugh!
Re: norman THANKS TO ALL THOSE THIEVES THAT KEEP STILLING MUSIC THRU THE WEB! – Actually statistics have shown that more people who do this, often buy more CDs as well. It's the fact that the RIAA and their buddies fought mp3s for so long, they got left behind. It's the fact that the prices of CDs stayed the same while CD players cost less. If CDs weren't overpriced, this would have never happened in the amount it did. Blame those that over-charged for CDs. BTW you know it's cheaper to make a CD than it is a cassette tape? Indeed.