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Two years ago, this site chronicled the long, slow demise of Tower Records painstakingly, with notes on what albums were burrowed away in the deep-discount bins. Well, in the current era, there are fewer music-specific stores left standing, but it would seem like there’s a similar, if slightly more depressing, story unfolding with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy and substantial closures borne by the electronics chain Circuit City, which, you may remember, sold records now and again.
While out shopping today at one of its imminently closing outlets in the Atlanta metro area, Lucas Jensen sent along the picture at left, which depicts the “Circuit City edition” of Q-Tip’s The Renaissance, with the note “I’m gonna go back and buy it though. It’s probably the most recent release there. They stopped buying new stuff right around then.” (That album came out in early November, right before Circuit City went BK.) Also of note: Janet Jackson’s Discipline was in plentiful supply and 50% off; there was also “a lot of Usher”; and the staff was blaring Incubus, presumably because hey, what was their manager going to do, fire them? While the opportunities for crate-digging bargains probably won’t be as plentiful as they were at Tower, the further deflation of music pricing, the increased shrinkage of floor space, and the markdowns on relatively recent titles are notable as well. Feel free to share your holiday-shopping observations on any musical fire sales here!
I wonder if the Circuit City special edition Solange album is on sale?
Help. There’s a FIRE!!!!!…sale.
Amazzzzzzing Grace….
I picked up 100 blank DVD-R discs for under $40…cant complain about that…Now if they had DISCIPLINE by King Crimson in stock that would be something!
On a CC related note…One of my cousins used to be married to a guy who refused to shop at Best Buy and would only buy from Circuit City…his rationale? CC was a southern company and BB was a yankee company (MN qualifies as Yankee now? Who knew?) and when the revolution comes he wanted to be on the correct side…This is the same guy that wouldnt get a tattoo because it would give him a distinquishing mark if the govt was ever looking for him…
Think Dale Gribble from KING OF THE HILL…that was this guy…My cousin wised up eventually…
well, for any bay area peeps the san rafael store’s got nothing but fixtures and furniture, and the emeryville store is staying open so they may not have anything on sale but i’ll be checking soon.
@Mick Kraut: I actually always liked Circuit City because they were on commission and thus more helpful. Selection was always kinda worse, though.
And I wish I had been here to make that Discipline joke. You beat me to it!
There were a lot of Janet Jackson CDs there. I’m gonna go back tomorrow and catalog what is left.
Poor Q-Tip. That timing was just terrible. And there is a Solange edition at CC? I’m gonna see if I can pick that up!
@Mick Kraut: MN ain’t NOT Yankee is all I’m sayin’.
Lucas: How good was the discount? Are all the CDs 50% off right now? When’s the store actually closing?
@MrStarhead: 50% of all CDs and I think 30% of DVDs and video games. They said the store was closing when most everything was gone, and there was still a lot left.
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