Wallet Chains 60% Off at Closing Hollywood & Highland Virgin Megastore

Wallet Chains 60% Off at Closing Hollywood & Highland Virgin Megastore

As of press time, deeply discounted wallet chains [You mean “chain wallets”?–Ed] were still in supply at the going-out-of-business clearance at the Virgin Megastore at…

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Sunset Virgin Megastore Closure Percentage Off & Remaining Stock Check Update Thread

Sunset Virgin Megastore Closure Percentage Off & Remaining Stock Check Update Thread

While it is not without some regret we mark the closing of yet another shuttered record shop–albeit in this case, just one outlet of a…

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Elegy for Sea Level Records

Elegy for Sea Level Records

Sea Level Villanelle When music calls to lift you from the dark The sun shines on a place that many laud At Sea Level in…

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Paleontologists Discover Fossilized Remains of  Wax Records, Melrose

Paleontologists Discover Fossilized Remains of Wax Records, Melrose

Not even Jason Bentley’s hourly plugging could save him. He withered and died a quiet death in the middle of 2004: Unwept, unloved, unsung. Years later, paleontologists turn to the fossil record to help piece together the past.

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Penny Lane Records, Westwood - A Rememberance

Penny Lane Records, Westwood – A Rememberance

Penny Lane Records, R.I.P. You will be missed, but truth be told, you hadn’t resembled your true self in years. Since moving from that traincar-sized space on Gayley to a larger storefront on a less-trafficked east-west Westwood street, you hung on to retail life in an undignified coma, reduced to peddling porn DVD rentals to maintain a pulse at the till. But before dwelling on the sad later years, let me look back to your glory days.

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