Comments on: On The Borders: What People Aren’t Buying

By: Abdul Balick

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:06:28 +0000

Actually in checking area Best Buys none of my selections were available at Best Buy.
I think I have to go back they had like 3 Rammstein cds on clearance.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:47:06 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: the bar for books is a lot lower.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:55:19 +0000

@MhS: At mine they have already started to move books in. Somewhat ironically, the music books are over there. Also, cookbooks and stuff. I think that's what's going down. Books still sell, I guess.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:45:15 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: The question would then be what are they going to do with the floorspace once occupied by DVDs and CDs

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:03:46 +0000

@MrStarhead: I think part of their plan--as explained to me by an employee--is to only stock new releases in DVD and CD. After it sells out, they might reorder it, but that's it. No catalog whatsoever.

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:14:32 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: Upon further visitation (ie this morning) It turns out that the expansion was for DVDs. They're putting more DVDs on the opposite side of the CD/DVD area for some reason I don't understand.

By: KikoJones

KikoJones — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:06:37 +0000

@tylerw: The Borders inside the World Trade Center always had some discounted gems in stock; mostly non-mainstream titles that didn't necessarily appeal to that particular store demo. Sadly...

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:37:27 +0000

What I don't understand is why a store that made its name on deep-discounting of books and a willingness to practically give stuff away in clearance sales (seriously; the one I went to had eight or nine shelves towards the front of the store with deep-discounted clearance books, buy two, get one free) won't go beyond the 50% discount they've been offering for the last month.

I don't want the entire Live discography for $9 apiece; I might pay $2 apiece for it, though. And at the store I was it, the complete Live discography was about as good as it got.

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:35:49 +0000

“new releases” are still full-price at the Borders I went to in suburban Atlanta. That seems to be anything put out in 2009, plus 2008 releases that are still hovering in the Billboard Top 50 or so.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:14:45 +0000

@MhS: Holy crap that Psychocandy deal! And others are good, too.

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:55:52 +0000

I actually own that Snow Patrol album. Bought it back when I had money to spend on mediocre followups to great albums.

As a fan of indie and someone who would know these things, most of my friends consensus is that Black Kids had one good single ("Hurricane Jane") and an alright one ("Boyfriend") from a terrible album.

I have a Barnes & Noble near my house. And instead of killing its CD and DVD section, it's expanding it (they're moving the coffee table books of house plants to the back near the children's books)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:40:51 +0000

@DocStrange: that is interesting, my local Barnes and Noble has almost completely phased out cds.

@Lucas Jensen: Heres what I bought, I'll list the clearance price:

Explorations: Bill Evans Trio: $7.19
(I should go back they had lots of Bill Evans stuff)
Kick Out the Jams: MC5 $5.99 (didn't have on cd)
Light as a Feather: Chick Corea and Return to Forever $7.19
Return to Forever: Chick Corea $10.79
Psychocandy: Jesus and Mary Chain $7.19 (didn't have on cd)
In the Wake of the Poseidon: King Crimson $9.59 (a what the hell selection)
Money Jungle: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus(the sleeve says Charlie but he hated being called that), Max Roach $10.79
Slack Key Guitar Volume 2 $9.59
You Are(Variations): Steve Reich $10.19

And the thing is that only a couple of these would be carried in the average Best Buy

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:56:26 +0000

@DocStrange: That's interesting...I smell an investigative report.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:55:15 +0000

@MhS: What did you buy and for how much apiece?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:08:21 +0000

Also noticed a trend, the Borders near work in Commack NY, which is a newer Borders where the size of the music section has not been greatly reduced since it opened has a lot of clearence cds. The Borders near home in Bohemia NY which is one of the older stores where the music section is probably less than a quarter of its original size has very few clearence cds.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:55:29 +0000

damn yall and this thread, I stopped by the Borders near work on the way home and spent $85.00

By: Lampbane

Lampbane — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:27:28 +0000

@tylerw:

The Times Square Virgin never went below 50% for the media stuff.

By: AquaLung

AquaLung — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:07:10 +0000

You guys should do this again.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:21:34 +0000

@extratastycrispy: I think it's certainly interesting that so many of these are Borders Exclusives and Special Editions. $24 for a CD is $24 for a CD, if we're gonna get all tautological about it. That's just a lot of money, particularly when things like rad Super Saver records are there for $9.99 (or less at other stores). What's really sad is I saw Super Savers here for $16.99? What?

I was thinking...when all of these end up in landfills, things will only get sadder.

@TVBath: I remember the music section being pretty darned good back then. Do we know each other, perhaps?

@AquaLung: We've done it before and we shall do it again! You saw the Circuit City one, right? [idolator.com]