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- Josh Steinberg
What's really been disappointing to me about retail lately is that the "midnight release date sale" seems to have fallen off the radar. I remember when I was in college in Boston that I used to line up at one of the several CD/DVD stores Monday night for first crack at Tuesday's releases. Now I'm in NYC, and I'm not even aware of a store that does this anymore. Occasionally you might get something for a huge, special release, but not as a standard, weekly thing. I miss that. There was something cool about staying up late, getting something the first moment it could be gotten, and staying up half the night watching a new disc or listening to a new CD and showing up to class or work half dead but happy the next morning. I remember classmates/coworkers would be talking about "Such and such comes out today" and I could just look over and say, "Yeah, I got it last night, it's freaking awesome!"