i went to the virgin megastore today

frail_and_bedazzled · 10-20-2002, 09:04 PM

and i feel like a total cunt. anyway, i decided to go into manhattan at 4:30 this morning and was walking around times square. you know, it's cheesy and monstrous and corporate, but they really do have a shitload of music. not a tremendous amount of indie/hipster type stuff (they didn't have mum, which stuck me as rather odd, considering they had, like, the go-betweens.) i wanted to venture into the classical section but i kind of felt like a fraud

lucky_13 · 10-20-2002, 09:09 PM

i love that store. i don't feel uncool because of it. i used to work a half a block away on 46th street. i love the import section. they have some stuff i couldn't find at kim's or other. i feed the corporate monster.

scouse_dave · 10-20-2002, 09:20 PM

i have no problem with Virgin being 'corporate'

i do, however, have a problem with them charging me about £15-£18 for an album that i canl buy for £11 AT AN ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM

the place is a rip-off, pure and simple

jared · 10-21-2002, 01:41 AM

mum is in the dance section

sickbadthing · 10-21-2002, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by lucky_13
i love that store. i don't feel uncool because of it. i used to work a half a block away on 46th street. i love the import section. they have some stuff i couldn't find at kim's or other. i feed the corporate monster.

Hey we went there together. I'm too cheap to pay $18 for a cd. We were in there for what... 5 minutes? Wow. Virgin megastore. Let's go. But then, we went to that other place in the village and I actually bought something there. One of those hipster places where everyone is too cool for humanity. I went to buy Jason Lowenstein's new cd and was ignored because the cool people working there had to talk. Don't you love it when a cd store is more of a hang out than an actual store? So you can go to a huge soulless place like Virgin where you get raped with the high prices or you can go to a little hipster dump and get a new release for a few dollars less and feel inadequate because you're not looking cool enough.

Fuck it. I'll just buy everything on Amazon.

Suicide Machine · 10-21-2002, 01:19 PM

Kim's blows. I think i bought the Green Grass of Tunnel mini cd there for $7, and thats about it. Etherea is the best in NYC. It's on Ave A and 10th. Vintage Vinyl in NJ is better though. I wish i had money to buy some shit there.

Debaser · 10-21-2002, 01:53 PM

i dig the megastore. they have hella cool shit. but i rarely buy anything there because of the prices.

jenniferkate · 10-21-2002, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by lucky_13
other

i hate other music! i hope it burns down.

frail_and_bedazzled · 10-21-2002, 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by jenniferkate

i hate other music! i hope it burns down.

no shit. that place creeps me out.

jenniferkate · 10-21-2002, 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by frail_and_bedazzled

no shit. that place creeps me out.

i can't stand it. it's the size of a shoebox and the dorks that work there are so smarmy. ugh.

i'd rather go to the princeton record exchange. at least their dorks are of the nice helpful variety.

frail_and_bedazzled · 10-21-2002, 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by jenniferkate

i can't stand it. it's the size of a shoebox and the dorks that work there are so smarmy. ugh.

i'd rather go to the princeton record exchange. at least their dorks are of the nice helpful variety.

the last time i went there i bought the yeah yeah yeahs ep for my friend, since even kim's didn't have it and i had promised my friend i'd get it for him. but they fucking opened it! i didn't even pay attention til after i left. it made me look like a crappy friend; playing their cd before they even got it.

jenniferkate · 10-21-2002, 04:16 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower

I could barely walk in that place. Everyone was cramped right next to each other. Everytime I moved in the CD section I bumped into someone.

it's palatial in comparison with other music.

lucky_13 · 10-21-2002, 08:40 PM

yeah the too cool place chris was talking about above was other music. the kim's up by columbia is cool and they gots alot of used stuff. generations is really cool too. 10 times bigger than other and it still isn't big. i remember going to other for the first time when i was working at matador and i thought there were other rooms. that one little shelf of indie rock couldn't be the only stuff they have.

fuck them. they could be alot cooler.

bonsor · 10-21-2002, 09:30 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower

I could barely walk in that place. Everyone was cramped right next to each other. Everytime I moved in the CD section I bumped into someone.

*resists glaring opportunity for a fat joke*

10-21-2002, 10:48 PM

At Virgin, I bought the Pumpkins' "in Conversation Vol 1" for $13 when I went to chicago one time (november 01)

Example · 10-22-2002, 12:57 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Machine
Etherea is the best in NYC.

After spending five days in New York, I have to agree

SmashingZeppelins · 10-22-2002, 02:55 AM

Reckless records in Chicago!

Travis Meekz · 10-22-2002, 03:05 AM

yep. it sucks, overpriced normal music st0re

frail_and_bedazzled · 10-22-2002, 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by lucky_13
yeah the too cool place chris was talking about above was other music. the kim's up by columbia is cool and they gots alot of used stuff. generations is really cool too. 10 times bigger than other and it still isn't big. i remember going to other for the first time when i was working at matador and i thought there were other rooms. that one little shelf of indie rock couldn't be the only stuff they have. fuck them. they could be alot cooler.

you worked at matador? that's cool. they're probably one of my favorites.

anyway, yeah, generation is pretty rad. they also have neat posters. lots of bootlegs, too. there are a couple of record stores on...what it is? mcdougal st? anyway, a couple blocks west of generation just below wash. square that have some interesting stuff as well.

professional wannabe · 08:34 PM

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Originally posted by Debaser
i dig the megastore. they have hella cool shit. but i rarely buy anything there because of the prices.

ditto here, i completely agree(only difference perhaps is that i go to the one in downtown Chicago).

in addition, i really love the fact that they have a lotta listening stations(in case that aspect hasn't been brought up yet...).

sawdust restaurants · 10-23-2002, 10:04 PM

That place is the epitome of false advertising. I'm pretty sure that when I went to their stores in Myrtle Beach and in New York, the only virgins were 13 years old and younger.

10-23-2002, 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by sawdust restaurants
That place is the epitome of false advertising. I'm pretty sure that when I went to their stores in Myrtle Beach and in New York, the only virgins were 13 years old and younger.

heh.

sawdust restaurants · 10-24-2002, 12:09 AM

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Originally posted by Red Wine Cage

heh.

Yeah, it's not exactly a megastore, is it?

Travis Meekz · 10-24-2002, 01:54 AM

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Originally posted by sawdust restaurants

Yeah, it's not exactly a megastore, is it?

severin · 10-24-2002, 07:30 AM

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Originally posted by sickbadthing

Hey we went there together. I'm too cheap to pay $18 for a cd. We were in there for what... 5 minutes? Wow. Virgin megastore. Let's go. But then, we went to that other place in the village and I actually bought something there. One of those hipster places where everyone is too cool for humanity. I went to buy Jason Lowenstein's new cd and was ignored because the cool people working there had to talk. Don't you love it when a cd store is more of a hang out than an actual store? So you can go to a huge soulless place like Virgin where you get raped with the high prices or you can go to a little hipster dump and get a new release for a few dollars less and feel inadequate because you're not looking cool enough.

Fuck it. I'll just buy everything on Amazon.

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0146882/6

twilightfadez · 10-24-2002, 03:57 PM

the only way i would buy something at virgin is with my employee discount...but since i dont work there anymore, and hardly any of my friends i just buy stuff online

sawdust restaurants · 10-24-2002, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower
Well, if I happened to be in the NY one at the time.

It's because you don't shave.

10-20-2002, 09:04 PM	#1
frail_and_bedazzled Ownz Location: lon guyland Posts: 880	i went to the virgin megastore today and i feel like a total cunt. anyway, i decided to go into manhattan at 4:30 this morning and was walking around times square. you know, it's cheesy and monstrous and corporate, but they really do have a shitload of music. not a tremendous amount of indie/hipster type stuff (they didn't have mum, which stuck me as rather odd, considering they had, like, the go-betweens.) i wanted to venture into the classical section but i kind of felt like a fraud

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10-20-2002, 09:09 PM	#2
lucky_13 Apocalyptic Poster Location: for joke! Posts: 2,235	i love that store. i don't feel uncool because of it. i used to work a half a block away on 46th street. i love the import section. they have some stuff i couldn't find at kim's or other. i feed the corporate monster.

10-20-2002, 09:20 PM	#3
scouse_dave Minion of Satan Location: Manchester Posts: 5,089	i have no problem with Virgin being 'corporate' i do, however, have a problem with them charging me about £15-£18 for an album that i canl buy for £11 AT AN ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM the place is a rip-off, pure and simple

10-21-2002, 01:41 AM	#4
jared Apocalyptic Poster Location: sacramento, ca, usa Posts: 2,192	mum is in the dance section

10-21-2002, 01:19 PM	#6
Suicide Machine Demi-God Location: NY Posts: 413	Kim's blows. I think i bought the Green Grass of Tunnel mini cd there for $7, and thats about it. Etherea is the best in NYC. It's on Ave A and 10th. Vintage Vinyl in NJ is better though. I wish i had money to buy some shit there.

10-21-2002, 01:53 PM	#7
Debaser ghost Location: @SactoMacto Posts: 12,201	i dig the megastore. they have hella cool shit. but i rarely buy anything there because of the prices.

10-21-2002, 08:40 PM	#13
lucky_13 Apocalyptic Poster Location: for joke! Posts: 2,235	yeah the too cool place chris was talking about above was other music. the kim's up by columbia is cool and they gots alot of used stuff. generations is really cool too. 10 times bigger than other and it still isn't big. i remember going to other for the first time when i was working at matador and i thought there were other rooms. that one little shelf of indie rock couldn't be the only stuff they have. fuck them. they could be alot cooler.

10-21-2002, 10:48 PM	#15
Red Wine Cage Posts: n/a	At Virgin, I bought the Pumpkins' "in Conversation Vol 1" for $13 when I went to chicago one time (november 01)

10-22-2002, 02:55 AM	#17
SmashingZeppelins Demi-God Location: To Here Knows When Posts: 285	Reckless records in Chicago!

10-22-2002, 03:05 AM	#18
Travis Meekz Minion of Satan Location: . Posts: 6,297	yep. it sucks, overpriced normal music st0re

10-23-2002, 10:04 PM	#21
sawdust restaurants Fucking Creep Location: On the East Coast Posts: 5,992	That place is the epitome of false advertising. I'm pretty sure that when I went to their stores in Myrtle Beach and in New York, the only virgins were 13 years old and younger.

10-24-2002, 03:57 PM	#26
twilightfadez Socialphobic Location: Medellin, CO Posts: 10,511	the only way i would buy something at virgin is with my employee discount...but since i dont work there anymore, and hardly any of my friends i just buy stuff online