End of Virgin Records

NY Times Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/arts/music/15virgin.html

My final cd purchases from there (80% off)

Aaron Parks – Invisible Cinema (recommended somewhere online and random guy in store was pushing it too)
AC Newman – Get Guilty
Benni Hemm Hemm – Kajak [Icelandic band but on a New Zealand comp too? not sure where they are from]
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing [RB said its good]
thenewno2 – you are here  [Dhani Harrison son of George]
The Unbending Trees – Chemically Happy (is the new sad) [Ben Watts newest label Strange Feelings]
VA – War Child Presents Heroes [gifted]

And a Sub Pop Music Video DVD – Acquired Taste

all for under $30.

RIP Virgin.

~ by arakias on June 15, 2009.