POLL: HOW DO YOU GET YOUR MUSIC?

It was fun while it lasted… having places to buy music in NYC, that is. With Circuit City gone, Best Buy cutting shelf-space and many independent stores gone the way of Tower, the final nail was pounded into the coffin of physical music retail in New York City this weekend as the Virgin Megastore in Union Square closed its doors for the last time. Virgin was the only place left you knew you could get just about anything — albeit sometimes for a high price — and was always a fun diversion or time-killer that would inevitably end in some totally unnecessary but killer CD purchases. With MySpace and file-sharing now the prevalent way of finding out about new music it seems quaint that I’d often go into Virgin (or Tower) and buy CDs solely from sampling them on listening stations, but I can’t tell you how many good CDs I found that way.

With physical music stores an increasing rarity and a modicum of online music options (both legal and illegal), how do you get your music these?

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[Thanks to Nona T. for the Virgin Megastore pic.]