Welp, either way I'm gonna take a quick suicide-trip mission to the Mall on my lunch break to see what's cookin' at their FYE. Wish me luck.

Hope you make it out alive.

I'll have to go by the ones local to me and see if they're shutting down...vulture time!

I still get a half a chub when I think of all the good deals I got at Tower's fire sale. FYE, prepare thy self to be pillaged.

Mine is going as well. I officially have no stores left closer than 30 minutes away. The FYE in my mall sucks. They recently rearranged the whole store made it smaller and just put the metal with everything else so I hate looking through all the crap.

I bought 3 cds but not any big deals still %20 deals which is stupid because they priced a lot of stuff back up to their old prices. The stuff I got was only 9.99 each. I didn't even want to bother getting anything more than that.

When it gets cheaper I want to try and grab those Carcass reissues but my luck they will probably be gone.

I can't find anything on-line about FYE (or it's parent company Trans-World Entertainment) going out of business completely yet, but starting in 2009, they planned on closing 130 stores nationwide. This is probably the first step towards going under though.

The death knell is loud.

Once this store is closed I'm strictly just going to buy stuff online. Theres no point in going to a store anymore. The mom and pop shops around here are crap and the other stores that I like are too far away. So until I make a special trip out to NJ I won't bother making a trip anywhere.

In a way it kind of might be a good thing. It will stop me with a lot of impulse buying I do.

whats a "mom an pop shop". im curious?

You know, the ones with the "adult" sections. They usually had the red lighted arrows pointed at the doorway in the back.

Just ran over to the FYE up the road again for a quick scrounge... got a new copy of Ravage's END OF TOMORROW (list price: 11.99, knocked down to $9 and change) and used copies of Testament's FORMATION OF DAMNATION and Manowar's FIGHTING THE WORLD. Grand total for all three: $21 and change. I'm a happy camper.

Will probably drop by again next week to start digging in the DVD department (drools with anticipation)....

Nice finds, love all of those.

Cd shops will be specialty shops full of us grayhairs scrounging for that hidden treasure and muttering about how kids don't appreciate music these days.

Well, now that the holiday insanity is over and it's back to the grind, I think it might be time for another lunchtime trip to that F.Y.E. today to see what pickin's can be had. If I make the trip, I'll report back later.

I hit 3 different mall FYE's in my area over the holiday break and all of them seem to be staying in business for the time being. No "closing sales" to be found.

Hit the FYE up the road again yesterday... things are getting chaotic in there. The discount on new CDs appears to be 40 percent off now, but there were some racks of random stuff that were 60 percent off, there were some bins of used CDs that were 2 for $5 while others were 2 for $1, etc., etc.... after wandering around for a while I gave up trying to figure it all out, I just threw my picks on the counter and was fine with whatever total they came up with (end result was three CDs for just over $10).

Thinking about going up there again today for some DVD scroungin' so I have something to watch during tomorrow's big snow storm.

Man, I live to far away to hit these closing sales. I was in Portland the week after Tower shut their doors and the closest FYE is over two hours away when there isn't snow.