Big Star Records closing down

[Gozu]

Sad news but after 25 years Big Star Records in the city is closing down this weekend. All stock is 50% off until the doors close on Sunday.

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/loc ... p-shop.htm

[zipzap]

That's really sad - and I'm as guilty as anyone. Mrs ZZ and I were driving past the Marion store the other day and I admitted that I hadn't been in there since JBs had opened across the road. I have bought vinyl semi-regularly from the city store basement but when you can get it cheaper online...just too hard.

I noticed at Marion too that the big Sanity store at the bottom of the Cinemas is gone. It's also gone from Castle Plaza. JB's music section itself gets smaller and smaller in favour of landfill DVDs and home entertainment kit. A sign of the times I'm afraid.

(Does anyone else find it an odd thing that compressed music files such as MP3s are all the rage while we simultaneously splurge more than ever on the latest and greatest home entertainment systems? Perhaps CDs will make a comeback - whether anyone is prepared to pay for it though is another thing entirely)

[CK]

Very sad news. Have spent a lot of time looking through the basement stock over the years and adding to my vinyl collection. When I was last in there two weeks ago, they had just listed one of the holy grails of vinyl - the "dress" cover of "The Man Who Sold The World" LP of David Bowie, for $500. Have heard about this record, but never seen a copy before. At $250, almost worth a purchase...

[Leaping Lindner]

****, ****, ****ing, ****.
I was there the day it opened. Another great record store bites the dust as people go on thinking they can download music for free.

[Q.]

Excuse me while I get a little misty-eyed. I have fond memories of pocketing lunch money, sneaking off to the city after school to buy Punk-O-Rama and Fat Wreck compilations from Verandah and Big Star, coming home late and then having to explain to the folks that football training had been made a day earlier.

[Dogwatcher]

FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR****************!

A very sad day.
That was my favourite store from about the age of 12!
Even now, when I'm in the city - rare as it is - I always stop in for a look/buy.
A significant portion of my CD collection came from there.
Almost worth driving down tomorrow for a final look see.
The last of the old school shops in Rundle Street.
Big Star always had that feel of having been there forever, surrounded by crappy nouveau fashion stores and latte sipping wa*nkers.

Us CD/vinyl collectors are going to have to go underground soon to buy stuff - there will be nowhere left.
Sure you can buy it on the net but it's not the same as going into a store, turning the album over and looking at it and feeling the cover in your hands - feeling like you've purchased something and not just a bloody computer file.

This post is not very eloquent but I have so many ideas jumping about at the moment.

[Dogwatcher]

Actually - if anyone's going in, can they get me a Big Star t-shirt?
I'll send them a postal cheque to pay for it!

That tee will be gold in time.

[zipzap]

Actually - if anyone's going in, can they get me a Big Star t-shirt?
I'll send them a postal cheque to pay for it!

That tee will be gold in time.

I'm assuming it's only the city store going? In which case you should be able to get one from the other stores.

Further to my previous post about JBs, as I drove to the footy today I noticed a new store is about to open at Edwardstown

[MUNGO JERRY]

My fav Big Star store has always been the one on Magill Road. Ive been going there for years and the cat that works there (Geoff? Jeff?) is a great bloke!
I hope the Magill road store stays open and yes, whenever I go into town I always went into the Rundle Street store for a looksy.
Very disappointing.

[Wizard of Oz]

Always preferred Verandah across the road....

But yes, very sad !

[saintal]

Sad, but their prices just were not competitive anymore. (well at least for the genres of music I like). Shopping through jb hifi or online you could get most items 30-50% cheaper. Shame to lose a music store that offered so much variety, in comparison to the garbage that places like sanity cater for.

Used to love their second hand range downstairs. I’ll have to pop in for one final look at lunch today.

[zipzap]

The title of this thread now has a sad double meaning
http://www.nme.com/news/alex-chilton/50271

[Dogwatcher]

Well, there you go.
Weird.
Heartbroken?

[Pseudo]

I noticed at Marion too that the big Sanity store at the bottom of the Cinemas is gone.

I noticed last weekend that it has actually relocated downstairs across the mall from BigW. Much smaller shop, and from what I could see as I marched past it had more DVDs than CDs on offer.

[woodwt]

I know the store at pelican plaza has been gone for a while!

Very sad news indeed

Lets hope the magill store remains open.

Does anyone know if the marion and norwood stores are still open??

I wonder how long before there gone!

[mighty_tiger_79]

i think marion is still going

[zipzap]

I noticed at Marion too that the big Sanity store at the bottom of the Cinemas is gone.

I noticed last weekend that it has actually relocated downstairs across the mall from BigW. Much smaller shop, and from what I could see as I marched past it had more DVDs than CDs on offer.

Is that different to the crap Virgin Store that has been there for years? (Virgin being operated by the same company as Sanity and HMV anyway...all equally shiteful)

[woodwt]

I noticed at Marion too that the big Sanity store at the bottom of the Cinemas is gone.

I noticed last weekend that it has actually relocated downstairs across the mall from BigW. Much smaller shop, and from what I could see as I marched past it had more DVDs than CDs on offer.

Is that different to the crap Virgin Store that has been there for years? (Virgin being operated by the same company as Sanity and HMV anyway...all equally shiteful)

I recon Sanity, HMV days are numbered also

[zipzap]

I noticed at Marion too that the big Sanity store at the bottom of the Cinemas is gone.

I noticed last weekend that it has actually relocated downstairs across the mall from BigW. Much smaller shop, and from what I could see as I marched past it had more DVDs than CDs on offer.

Is that different to the crap Virgin Store that has been there for years? (Virgin being operated by the same company as Sanity and HMV anyway...all equally shiteful)

I recon Sanity, HMV days are numbered also

Along with video libraries surely - how do they make a buck with downloads, public libraries with DVDs, Foxtel etc?

[Pseudo]

Does anyone know if the marion and norwood stores are still open??

I drove past the Marion shop yesterday morning. The front windows were all papered up, and a large sign on it read CLOSED....
























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