Don’t Show Them Your iPod — You’ll Freak Them Out . . .

The vestigial Sam Goody in Queens Center Mall is closing:

The news saddened shoppers who have been buying music and videos there for years.

Woodside resident Arturo Quan raved that he could always go to Sam Goody to get the DVD of a concert he saw on PBS.

“This is the only one — the only place I could find it. I guess I got to look for another store, perhaps in Manhattan,” he said.

Other Sam Goody faithful found it painful to let go of the idea of a bricks-and-mortar shopping experience:

Yolanda Wilson works two doors down at the mall’s Time Warner Cable office, and would often go down to Goody’s when she had a break. With the store and its wide selection to become a thing of the past, she said, she dreads having to shop for CDs on the Internet.

“I don’t like to shop online, because you don’t know what you’re getting,” she said. “Let’s say you pick the wrong one and want to return it — you have to go through the whole process of mailing it back.”

Obviously iTunes would blow these people’s minds. Better space out that news a little . . .