J & R (NYC) abruptly goes out of business

[rcarlberg]

I think I'd rather just buy a download than to continue buying something that

• takes up 4x more space than a CD
• costs more than a CD
• degrades with even careful use

Shoot you can do both.

Buy the download, then press it onto your own LP blanks. The best of BOTH worlds!

[Facelift]

I'm sorry to hear about J&R going 'toes up'.I shopped there every once in a while back in the days(70s-early 80s) but after perusing the goods at Tower(uptown and downtown),Other Music,Soho Music Gallery,Downtown Music Gallery,HMV,etc,i was generally broke.J&R just didn't make the cut.

I bought audio components at J&R over the last 20 years, but very few cds

FWIW - things must have flipped at some point over the years. In the late '90s and '00s, it was Tower that was prohibitively expensive and J&R that was often quite cheap. They had many hundreds of Jazz CDs priced at $5.99, for example, and were always having label-specific sales.