Then we heard that the store hoped to relocate, possibly in the East Village — something in the $4,000 rent range. We scouted some possible locations for them. (Here ... and here.)
As late as September, the store was still looking to move here.
Apparently this won't happen.
As you may have seen at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York or BoweryBoogie this morning, Bleecker Bob's has announced that it is closing for good in early 2013. (Alex noted this yesterday at Flaming Pablum.)
Per the Bleecker Bob's Facebook page:
well, it's SAD NEWS people. don't really know how to say this so here goes.....after 40+ years in existence, BLEECKER BOB'S will be closing!!!! looks like another month or 2 maybe.
Previously on EV Grieve:
[UPDATED] Let's help Bleecker Bob's find space in the East Village
Bleecker Bob's is for rent
Sad news and I dread to think what will go in that space.
ReplyDeleteAny word on why they changed their mind about moving?
ReplyDeleteYou have have seen it at Vanishing New York or Bowery Boogie this morning, but I had it up on Sunday, for whatever that's worth:
ReplyDeletehttp://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/12/bedtime-for-bleecker-bobs.html
Ah, sorry about that Alex — I added the link to the post.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Bleecker Bob's replace 40 years ago?
ReplyDeleteIf not mistaken Bleecker Bob's Replaced the Night Owl a great hippie shop with a black light poster room in the back but Bob's used to be right of 8th street on Washington place? right across the street form MacDougal Alley
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the Night Owl but there was another record shop where Bob's is: Bonaparte Records, though it was only briefly there.
ReplyDeletei rememeber buying a slapshot & chain of strength tshirt there in the early 90s
ReplyDeleteLet's face it by and large people don't enjoy music anymore. They listen to shit. They certainly don't need places like Bleecker Bob's to procure that.
ReplyDelete"Video killed the Radio Star" then CDs killed Vinyl and now MP3s are killing CDs.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19cbz_the-buggles-video-killed-the-radio_music#.UMcpjOTAdxU
So Bob's replaced a neighborhood staple? Death to Bob's!
ReplyDeleteI remember going to bleecker bob's in high school in 1985 looking for crap I couldn't get at Tower Records and soon found nothing I wanted. There was another smaller but better record shop up closer to NYU off the park, cannot recall the name but it had much better stuff. Bob's was good for tee shirts that's about it.
ReplyDeleteTotal corporate efficiencizing of culture is killing the industry. There is no space left to grow anything new, even college radio has mostly been taken over by corporates or outrightly sold off. So its very efficient for the corporates to get their money from itunes, but you can only sell the same Beatles catalog so many times. What will they do next, try and tell us there is a BETTER download format and we need to purchase that fucking whore katy perry's catalog all over again? No gets excited about a download the way we used to get excited about a single. And there is no underground anymore, if you're on facebook, you're totally overground, even if no one cares about your shit.
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