Third Stage CLOSED!

Laflesia

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From shattered-tranquility:

"On December 13th, Third Stage closed their store.
The store has been around since February of 1993, however, because of the current recession and problems that arose from it with the management, they are unable to stay in business any longer.

They put a great effort into keeping the store and online shopping open, but it has gotten tot he point where it is impossible to continue.

They thank all their customers for the continued support throughout the years and will honour all orders that have been made thus far as long as they have it still in stock"

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this makes me really sad :(
This was such a great online store
 

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i was just on there last friday! :cry:
i would save money just so i would buy from them...
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They were a really good store for obscure used demos and other old stuff. It's a shame they're no more. I bought quite a few things there in the past, however not recently...

Funnily enough I just went there today to check it out after like a year, and saw they were closed. I didn't even know this was recent.
 

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My friend's Japan trip is next week and he would've bought me some stuff from Third Stage, and they have to close the shop now? ._.
 

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>_< I missed my only chance to go there when I was in Japan then. I went on a Monday and saw a sign saying "LOL no longer open Mondays", and now they're closed altogether. ::hora::

In all fairness, I haven't bought anything from them in a long while, but they really were a good store, and one of the first that catered to foreigners. They'll be missed.
 

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I am sad for such a thing, but thanks third stage, thanks for giving me loki n' roll w/ kozi autograph, i will never forget. :) :grin:
 

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It's really too bad. In the past few years, their instore events were the best in Tokyo. At least, since I'm more interested in hearing music than finding out whether the artists like to eat curry rice with a fork or spoon, that's what I thought. It wasn't just the usual talk events, but mini-lives during which artists would play a couple of acoustic songs. And sometimes later, recordings from those events would be included as bonuses with the next release.

But maybe the location was just too inconvenient. Zeal Link's opening in Shibuya might have stolen some of their business.
 

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That's really upsetting. :(
 

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I feel sad too about it. I liked their bonus, and liked the shop itself. It was a bit messy but they have always been nice to me. They had akways good bonus for LAREINE or the bands I like.
I kinda saw it come, when they stopped selling metal CDs upstairs and started selling them altogether with visual kei CDs on the 1st floor. Last summer, I saw that not many people were actually buying there. For sure, I'll miss them because they were a good compromise when you are abroad and want indies CDs with bonus.
 

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Camuflagem wrote:
I am sad for such a thing, but thanks third stage, thanks for giving me loki n' roll w/ kozi autograph, i will never forget. :) :grin:
Seriously. I love my Közi autograph. What a bummer that it's closed.
 

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NO!

I got my Velvet Eden Kumo/Kaujen tape from there...

I was hoping to get more demo-tapes from them.

:(
 

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I'm searching for where to buy this DT for ages! And now one of my hopes is closed... :cry:
 
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