I know someone who was caught nicking BETTY BLUE from the old Virgin Megastore beside USIT in the late 80’s. He was about 15, stealing it to order for someone else and it was still considered to be somewhat of a controversial/raunchy film at the time. The security guards took the living piss out of him for stealing dirty films… embarrassing!!!
I still get good mileage out of an artset chest yoke I nabbed in a similar way from a poundshop in Roscommon.
Stupid bog wogs had no cameras or workers upstairs in the kids section(a treasure trove of fake Power Ranger and Batman dolls in Spiderman boxes and wrestler figures with dinosaur heads,by the way)so it was easy enough to exchange the extortionate €8 sticker on the set with the €2 sticker on the “Bill the Super Fun Builder” (no shit,that`s what it was called)play set.
That old Virgin Megastore was great. There was a sort of slight kippy/nightclub feel to the place, and it seemed so huge. I used to head into town on Saturday morning, buy my comics in Forbidden Planet on Dawson Street and then spend a few hours in Virgin, terrified to come within 10 metres of the Mates condoms near the tills.
FNAC in France and Spain are sort of similar, but they’re a bit too upmarket. I liked the the fact that Virgin was like an old factory.
I remember in Virgin I would peel £5.99 stickers off things and put them on the Anime tapes I wanted to buy. The staff never copped it. Well they probably did but I was 12 so they didn’t care.
Heh yeah the johnnies on the counter and a female behind the counter gave me a redner a few times. Yeah that was my game, I peeled off a sticker, big whoop. Deal with it mother
Caught by the fuzz heh heh…had it been Weekend at Bernies they probably would have thanked you and GIVEN the Georgie R vid to ya as a bonus. Ah well. I once bought a Tom Waits tape only to arrive home and have Neil Sedakas soothing tones playing from the same bloody tape - that messed with my head.
That’s happened to me several times buying videos and cd’s. I bought GWAR and I got Motocross stunts instead and I bought The Beatles and got Hole instead.
should havve bought critters.
a classic
I know someone who was caught nicking BETTY BLUE from the old Virgin Megastore beside USIT in the late 80’s. He was about 15, stealing it to order for someone else and it was still considered to be somewhat of a controversial/raunchy film at the time. The security guards took the living piss out of him for stealing dirty films… embarrassing!!!
Yep that was the same Virgin. I suppose my choice could have been worse alright, going down for Weekend at Bernies or something
I still get good mileage out of an artset chest yoke I nabbed in a similar way from a poundshop in Roscommon.
Stupid bog wogs had no cameras or workers upstairs in the kids section(a treasure trove of fake Power Ranger and Batman dolls in Spiderman boxes and wrestler figures with dinosaur heads,by the way)so it was easy enough to exchange the extortionate €8 sticker on the set with the €2 sticker on the “Bill the Super Fun Builder” (no shit,that`s what it was called)play set.
Yeah I know I Luke, everybody’s done it but very few people have been nicked and beaten senseless by the Filth like I was…stay tuned.
No actually they were very civil.
That old Virgin Megastore was great. There was a sort of slight kippy/nightclub feel to the place, and it seemed so huge. I used to head into town on Saturday morning, buy my comics in Forbidden Planet on Dawson Street and then spend a few hours in Virgin, terrified to come within 10 metres of the Mates condoms near the tills.
FNAC in France and Spain are sort of similar, but they’re a bit too upmarket. I liked the the fact that Virgin was like an old factory.
I remember in Virgin I would peel £5.99 stickers off things and put them on the Anime tapes I wanted to buy. The staff never copped it. Well they probably did but I was 12 so they didn’t care.
Ahhh good times.
Heh yeah the johnnies on the counter and a female behind the counter gave me a redner a few times. Yeah that was my game, I peeled off a sticker, big whoop. Deal with it mother
Caught by the fuzz heh heh…had it been Weekend at Bernies they probably would have thanked you and GIVEN the Georgie R vid to ya as a bonus. Ah well. I once bought a Tom Waits tape only to arrive home and have Neil Sedakas soothing tones playing from the same bloody tape - that messed with my head.
That’s happened to me several times buying videos and cd’s. I bought GWAR and I got Motocross stunts instead and I bought The Beatles and got Hole instead.