<![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009? - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009? - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:53:38 EST Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:53:38 EST http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009 <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3429287 @triplethreat: You mean "The Flaming Butthole*"?

* nb: not official name

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:336651:c3429287 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:53:38 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3429082 I'm worried about that awesome smoking art clock thing on the facade.

triplethreat

]]> 33:336651:c3429082 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:44:27 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3425987 For once I ask a serious question? What kind of retailer could pay $1000 a square foot for that much space? Isn't that $2.5 million a month????

OK. Maybe Starbucks.

stanfrombrooklyn

]]> 33:336651:c3425987 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:05:08 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3424691 I have far, far less residual affection for Virgin than I did for Tower; but as a Union Square denizen during the workday, I am a frequent visitor, and this seriously bums me out. Picking up Billboard on Friday is a weekly ritual for me, and that can only be done on a Friday in a big record store (newsstands get it the following Monday). What little disc-buying I still do, I basically roll into my weekly Friday ritual.

When Tower closed, that eliminated one reliable locale to get Billboard. With Virgin gone, a 20-year tradition of mine will go the way of the dodo. Man, I am old.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:336651:c3424691 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:59:25 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3424572 Now there will be no virgins left in New York.

drunkexpatwriter

]]> 33:336651:c3424572 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:53:18 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3423926 Virgin bailed out of its huge Michigan Ave. store in Chicago earlier this year.
It's becoming a Forever 21.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> 33:336651:c3423926 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:17:47 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3423900 I bought Kanye's latest online and I kind of regret it. I miss spending five minutes trying to rip open the plastic film from the CD case.

I really do.

rhythmchyc

]]> 33:336651:c3423900 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:15:59 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3423822 Virgin stores in the UK have been sold and re-branded 'Zavvi'. Because it sounds like 'savvy', and includes a 'Z' (which is obviously the coolest letter in the alphabet ever).

BakerStreetSaxSolo

]]> 33:336651:c3423822 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:12:32 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3422637 @Camp Tiger Claw: Um, my "good luck with that" statement was intended for the real estate deal. But it's way funnier following your comment.

VoxPopuli

]]> 33:336651:c3422637 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:12 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3422623 Ha ha, the Winick website has "Keeping It Retail" on its main page.

Dickdogfood

]]> 33:336651:c3422623 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:08:27 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3422622 Well, good luck with that. I haven't been in the Virgin Megastore in a few years, around the same time that I began downloading all my music. I didn't even realize Tower Records was gone until I walked by one of the empty stores a few months ago.

VoxPopuli

]]> 33:336651:c3422622 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:08:26 EST <![CDATA[Is The Virgin Megastore Going To Escape From New York In 2009?]]> http://idolator.com/336651/is-the-virgin-megastore-going-to-escape-from-new-york-in-2009#c3422599 I took a crap in there about 4 months ago.

I'm sure I'll have fond memories of it when I'm paying 99 cents to crap over the internet.

Camp Tiger Claw

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