Sam Goody's Going out of Business Sale.

I could only find shitty stuff because there was but 1 rack of CD's left :(

there was hardly anything there a month ago, mostly soundtracks and roc en espanol/ranchera. and 25 year old NCR cash registers, and horrible scuffed white metal 40 cd wall racks for 10 bucks each. and vinyl chairs with foam busting out of them. They had a seinfeld set for like $30.00, I didn't know if that was a good price or not, whatever. their 60% off is like other shops' 110% anyway, just fucking die already sir.

where do you live that there is still a Sam Goody?

in the pasadena area there were two! and one was less than two years old! I couldn't fathom who was buying from them in this day and age other than my relatives at christmastime.

"mostly soundtracks and roc en espanol/ranchera"

Chupa verga, baboso pendejo.

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Fuck Sam Goody.

i got a bunch of stuff for crazy low prices through this, including:

Used: Mannie Fresh, The Mind of Mannie Fresh - $5
Used: Nas, Street's Disciple $7
New: One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found $40

was especially psyched about the last one.

i been looking for that set! lucky ducks

Maybe I should go to the mall and see if they have anything left.

how long before Tower bites the dust? Can we start a Tower death pool?? One day there will only be one gigantic Amoeba the size of Rhode Island left.

Does Tower charge $19.98 for new CDs like SG did? I've never been to a Tower, and never bought anything from SG for that reason.

Tower has pretty damn good sale prices on DVDs now. i bought the sam peckinpah boxset there for $39.99 (wild bunch, pat garrett, cable hogue, ride the high country)

the one here was an awful store to begin with. i'm sure the poor buying choices of these places nationwide contributed to their downfall. although maybe the day and age for this sort of store has passed. how many national cd store chains are there? i don't even know if the coconuts branches in chicago still exist.

anyway, the going out of business sale at the sam goody here has now lasted about two months. they've been dropping the prices progressively, although it's worthwhile to note that they increased the prices just before they started the sale. predictably what's left is completely depressing, although still indicative of some of the choices the buyer had made before the going out of business announcement (that is to say, it was a depressing store to begin with). dozens of copies of the lindsay lohan cd, dozens of copies of the bo bice cd (!!!), lots of "edited for radio" versions of hip-hop albums, dozens of copies of "the godfather part iii" dvd, full-screen dvds of widescreen movies, and so on. the stuff that's left over is mostly stuff i can't imagine would have sold under any conditons.

i did find a few johnny guitar watson and glen campbell reissues there for $2-4 each. i wonder what they're going to do with whatever is left.... presumably they are not staying open until everything is gone, because that will be never.

with s.g. gone there's just two record stores in this town. one of them is godawful--the sort of place where scuffed used classical cds ("ALL-DIGITAL RECORDING COPYRIGHT 1989") sit around the bins for years without being marked down, or brand new bob dylan cd reissues (which the store insists on opening, keeping the cds behind the counter, and still selling as "new") cost $17 (!!!). the other record store, god bless it, is fantastic. but they have a HUGE amount of stock at any given time (good stock, like 10 copies of the newest fall reissue or something) so i hope they are moving it quickly enough to keep afloat.

stores that don't move used-cd stock quickly (and that don't make good choices re. what they buy) can be really, really depressing. it's a bummer to realize that you've flipped through those $7.99 dokken cds a dozen times. (i bet the record store in middletown, connecticut, whatever it was called, still has six copies of "the spaghetti incident").

Last night's haul, at the mall in Pentagon City...

John Mellencamp, Big Daddy
John Mellencamp, Human Wheels
The Greenhornes, Sewed Soles
Turbonegro, Party Animals
Paul McCartney, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

unless FYE's going under, too, there's at least one national chain left that charges $19.99 for new cds.

do the Virgin megastores count as a national chain? their CD prices are ridiculous.

Towers generally have better selections than their competition, especially in the marginal departments (world, classical, etc.). I tend to spend my money at J&R, though, or I get lured in by Virgin's listening stations.

Huh. When I wasn't looking not only did Sam Goody completely disappear from New York City AND Long Island, but Record World went under maybe fifteen years ago. Jesus.

And now there are only two FYEs left in Manhattan. Good riddance, I say -- the one by work was despairingly empty at all hours every single day.