Discovery Disc to leave Houston Hall

In spite of sweltering heat, students and Philadelphia area residents formed a line and slowly filed into Discovery Discs last Monday to take advantage of a blowout clearance sale prompted by the impending shutdown of the store. On June 23, Discovery Discs, in the Houston Hall mall, will cease operations. The CD store will close because the lease expires at the end of the month, and Houston Hall is slated to shut down next summer, according to one source who wished to remain nameless. The owners will move the store to another location. However, it probably will not be in the Philadelphia area, as they said they feel rent is too expensive for the store to move to Center City. The store began its clearance sale at noon on Monday. Customers began forming a line outside the store way before the doors opened. The line stretched from the store's entrance to the stairwell next to the Hall of Flags, with a constant stream of people throughout the afternoon. "People are pretty cooperative so far. There hasn't been any violence yet," employee Clayton Wynter, an engineering junior, said. Expectant patrons waited for as long as twenty minutes to gain entrance into the store. Inside the store, the air was warm and humid, and the floor was packed with customers sorting through bins filled with CD's. Items that normally cost over six dollars were discounted two dollars. Items that normally cost less than six dollars were priced one dollar down And certain items were priced with special sale tags. Drexel senior Erica Eckler said she felt the long, hot wait was justified by the purchases she made. "But a lot of the stuff I'm buying is cheap anyway," she added. Another music store, CD's to Go, is slated to move into the place of Discovery Discs on July 18. It will sell rock, imports and used CD's. As a consolation, customers who had memberships with Discovery Discs can pay one dollar to exchange their memberships for one with Discovery Discs' sister store, Classical Choice.