Megastore

I vividly recall seeing a pre-teen boy watching a grisly murder scene from the film Scream as it played silently on a monitor at a Virgin Megastore many years ago.

Eric Williams: F***ing up the Charts: on F-Words and Music Eric Williams 2010

The first Virgin Megastore opened in the U.S. in 1992; at its peak, the chain operated 23 stores across the country.

Food or Comics | A roundup of money-related news | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Look what happened to the Virgin Megastore and Tower Records: economic losses.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Look what happened to the Virgin Megastore and Tower Records: economic losses.

IPSC: Copyright Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The most recent reminder of that for me came last week, when I went to the Apple store to pick up an accessory and saw that the Virgin Megastore across the street in San Francisco had closed.

Why the Kindle HD Can’t Save Newspapers 2009

It was sad to see the Virgin Megastore in Times Square shuttered, but the Times [...]

Writer Unboxed » 2009 » November 2009

Imagine if these were DVDs: one day, a man from Virgin Megastore shows up at your door and says, We're taking away all your videos.

Boing Boing 2007

Beginning with the Free Culture demonstration at the Times Square Virgin Megastore, the documentary covers Free Culture members out to educate consumers on alternative forms of music distribution online (archive. org, ccmixter. org, blogs, etc).

Boing Boing: February 5, 2006 - February 11, 2006 Archives 2006

The investigators bought CDs at stores including Wal-Mart (WMT), BestBuy (BBY), Sam Goody, Circuit City (CC), FYE, and Virgin Megastore, according to a Nov. 23 statement from Spitzer's office ...

Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005

Here are some photos from last week's Free Culture NYU demonstration against DRM at the Virgin Megastore at 14th and Broadway.

- Boing Boing 2005