Closed forever!

It was fun while it lasted… having places to buy music and movies in NYC, that is. With Circuit City gone, Best Buy cutting shelf-space and many independent stores gone the way of Tower Records, the final nail was pounded into the coffin of physical music retail in New York City this weekend as the Virgin Megastore in Union Square closed its doors for the last time.

Virgin Megastore was the only place left you knew you could get just about anything (and a perfect place for last minute gifts) and was always a fun diversion or time-killer that would inevitably end in some totally unnecessary but killer CD and DVD purchases. With MySpace and file-sharing now the prevalent way of finding out about new music it seems quaint that I’d often go into Virgin (or Tower) and buy CDs solely from sampling them on listening stations, but I can’t tell you how many good CDs I found that way.

Anyhoo, thank God for Generation Records and Kims Video.