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- From: teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger)
- Subject: Re: Store for CD's: incredible selection
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.034100.10304@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1993Jan3.075543.6789@xyzoom.info.com> <1993Jan4.012218.29330@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:41:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.012218.29330@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) writes:
- >rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) writes:
- >
- >>I was killing some time before a movie at the new Sunset 5 theatres
- >>yesterday when I stopped in the new "Megastore" operated by Virgin (of
- >>Virgin Atlantic, Virgin records, et. al. fame) in the same complex, at
- >>Crescent Heights and Sunset.
- >>
- >>I found 3 jazz CD's that I never knew existed by artists I've been
- >>following for a few years. The selection of obscure CD's in this
- >>store appears to be excellent. A huge jazz section, a good large folk
- >>section, and a big international section. ...
- >
- >Has anyone into international music gotten a good feel
- >for how Virgin's selection compares to that of, say,
- >Tower or Rhino? Or tried any special orders? I often
- >find myself in the position of looking for things that
- >are released in, say, France that are a little tough to
- >special-order at Tower or Rhino; because there's another
- >big Virgin Megastore in Paris stocking primarily European
- >releases, I thought this might somehow work to the benefit
- >of the outlet here (which I haven't yet been able to
- >visit).
- >
-
- I recently called Tower in SO and asked about getting a CD of Tahitian
- Chior but they only had the cassette so I dropped into the new Virgin
- shoppe and found that they had lots of them at what I expected to pay for
- it, $14.99. If it had been on discount it probably would have been $11.99.
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- Ciao!
- John S. :^)
- teddybur@netcom.com
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