Comments on: Borders To Have A Really Big Sale On CDs (In Preparation For Decimating Its Inventory)

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:42:20 +0000

There won’t be a Borders by 2012. Anywhere.

By: moulty

moulty — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:02:00 +0000

I used to work at a borders. I’ve never met so many Jason Mraz fans in my life.

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:59:47 +0000

@Chris: Ah. Never mind.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:18:09 +0000

@owenmeany: Dey play muzick on Grey's Anatomy?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:15:05 +0000

Damn. How’s my mom gonna pick up the music she hears on “Grey’s Anatomy” now?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:40:22 +0000

I’d love to know why it never occurs to these stores that if they continued to carry a wide variety of cds and dvds they might actually attract customers. Reminds me of when Tower Records was going through its death throes and they decided to reduce floor space for cds and tried to sell cheap boomboxes and the like. I went to Tower originally because they always carried a ton of stuff. Oh well, considering the way my local Borders have become run dowm and seedy I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chapter 111 coming for Borders.

By: mishaps

mishaps — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:36:47 +0000

I saw Everything But The Girl perform at Borders, and BR4-59, and Rufus Thomas. I hadn't bought any music from them in a long long time though, even when I was still buying plastic CDs, because of the markup factor.

Let them focus on what they started with, books and reading, and see if they can figure out a way to stay in business doing that. If anyone other than bn.com can...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:44 +0000

@Chris N.:

See TheWrap.com for the horrible news about Harper Collins today.

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:53:40 +0000

Who knew that books would turn out to be the last profitable form of entertainment?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:32:53 +0000

And they have books there too!

@Maura Johnston: Marine Girls: swoon...

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:54:03 +0000

@eriq78: can you please not get into personal attacks? that includes the 'ass clown' (who are you, chris jericho?) and the indier-than-thou ridiculousness. consider this a formal warning.

i bought the marine girls' 'lazy ways/beach party' at a borders in evanston, illinois long ago. its selection used to be really wide -- it had 50,000 titles available not even 10 years ago! surely something to please your oh-so-demanding palate was in there.

and yeah, what SAShepherd said. more people *do* live near a borders. and the fact that options for many people to purchase music in the way that they're used to doing are dwindling more and more by the minute is fucked up, and stunting some peoples' ability to get into music.

By: SAShepherd

SAShepherd — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:47:08 +0000

@eriq78: Sigh. This isn't Stereogum.

Yes, worth defending. When my Borders wipes out an entire floor's worth of disks, then, yes, its loss means something. Even if I typically shopped online or at the much smaller independent record shop down the street and just wandered through Borders to see what they had.

The percentage of the US population who lives within 20 minutes of Borders is considerably higher than than the percentage who lives within 20 minutes of Amoeba.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:20:42 +0000

@BillyChance: damn! start calling names, really sweet.

ok, my point - Borders only carries sucky mainstream middle of the road cds. for the one time i'm stuck there and see something that is slightly out of the mainstream, ironically i download it and still don't like the cd. i'm spoiled, i have amoeba, and other real music stores to shop at. sure not everyone does. but do serious music fans really shop at borders? do serious music fans defend borders? it's the same as walmart to me.

lick it, ass clown.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:50:58 +0000

@eriq78: How is that Borders' fault, moron?

By: Barry White Stripes, Office LW

Barry White Stripes, Office LW — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:45:04 +0000

Aww…you mean people don’t like to buy music at prices above the price point set for it? That 30% discount is way more like a 15% from what it should have been.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:40:41 +0000

Borders sux. Almost bought that Cut Copy cd there last year on a whim. Downloaded it instead. Glad i did. Reheated New Order, not so much my thing.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:16:21 +0000

I was at the Virgin Megastore the other day and picked up the first Strokes album for $5.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:55:10 +0000

@Prefixmag: and drinking coffee!

By: Prefixmag

Prefixmag — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:45:10 +0000

I used to spend hours at Borders between reading the music magazines and listening to albums at the listening stations.

By: SomeSound-MostlyFury

SomeSound-MostlyFury — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:18:35 +0000

Sad! My local Borders had an excellent music staff with great diverse tastes. They put a lot of time and effort into their displays and I could always find something they recommended that I'd never heard of before.

Of course, I'd usually haul ass back to the computer to find the album for 1/3 of the price online, but hey....I bought their chai sometimes!