West 8th Street is losing its shirt(s)

There's more trouble on West 8th Street. Just months after the sudden, mysterious and inexplicable closing of Is Wine comes the sudden, mysterious and inexplicable closing of its nearby neighbor, rock t-shirt outlet Butterfly's (though not the original Butterfly's, whose first, longtime site shuttered in 2006 to eventually make way for, ironically enough, Is Wine). Seriously, what the hell is happening on this strip? I can only imagine that the rents have spiraled entirely out of control.

Now, at the unseemly age of 43, I'm really the last person who should be getting all hot and bothered about a rock t-shirt emporium like Butterfly's, but far be it from me to act my age. Hell, do people even wear rock t-shirts any more? I mean, sure, I do, but I'm hardly representative of the general populace. I still have very fond memories of the afore-cited original Butterfly's. And I was still prone to stopping into this location on occasion to peruse the selections. After all, one never know when one suddenly needs to procure oneself a Misfits t-shirt. Sadly, it looks like this is one less place to do just that.