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.