So long, Marbecks Cuba Mall

It looks like the Mar­becks on Cuba Mall is clos­ing down, leav­ing the blessed Slow­boat and Real Groovy the only music shops in the area.

It does­n’t real­ly come as much of a sur­prise — record shops today seem to exist main­ly for music nerds and CD-buy­ing grans. ’90s-style music shops like Mar­becks are a dying breed.

Mar­becks Cuba Mall are dis­count­ing what stock is left, so if you’re after a slight­ly reduced copy of Susan Boyle’s album, it might be worth a vis­it. If not, you’re best stick­ing to your favourite way of pur­chas­ing music.

And for fur­ther read­ing, over at Were­wolf, Gor­don Camp­bell recent­ly took at look at the state of Welling­ton’s record shops, talk­ing to Mark Thomas of Real Groovy and Den­nis O’Brien of Slow­boat, and won­dered how they were sur­viv­ing in the face of declin­ing sales and Susan Boyle.

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3 Responses

  1. I was in Real Groovy last week and was sur­prised at how ema­ci­at­ed their stock looked. Us grans would be sad to see the spe­cial­ty shops go.

  2. While not the same sort of clo­sure to Mar­becks, just across the street QQ Rice dis­ap­peared after it’s short stint on Dixon. A lit­tle fur­ther up Cuba the $2 shop is gone and down the bot­tom Cash Con­vert­ers has also shut up shop.

  3. Baz ‑They had plen­ty before Xmas, so hope­ful­ly they’ve sold loads and are wiat­ing for new stock? :-S