7. Long-Term Debt

Long-term debt consists of (in thousands):


	August 3, 2013		February 2, 2013		July 28, 2012
Senior secured term loan facility, net of discount of $1,507, $1,647 and $1,791	$	767,595	$	767,455	$	792,312
9.125% senior notes		371,000		371,000		400,000

Long-term debt	$	1,138,595	$	1,138,455	$	1,192,312

We have an agreement with several lenders for an $820 million senior secured Term Loan, with a maturity date of February 2018. The Term Loan allows us to request additional tranches of term loans in an aggregate amount not to exceed $200 million, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, provided that such amount will be subject to reduction by the amount of any additional commitments incurred under the ABL described in Note 6. The interest rate for borrowings under the Term Loan is, at our option, a base rate plus an additional marginal rate of 2.5% or the Adjusted LIBOR rate (with a 1.5% floor) plus an additional rate of 3.5%. As of August 3, 2013, the interest rate under our Term Loan was 5%.

The Term Loan requires us to make quarterly payments equal to 0.25% of the original $820 million principal amount of the Term Loan made on the closing date plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, with the balance due in February 2018. The Term Loan also has mandatory and voluntary pre-payment provisions, including a requirement that we prepay the Term Loan with a certain percentage of our annual excess cash flow.

We calculated our excess cash flow using fiscal 2012 operating results and concluded that we are not required to make any excess cash flow payments on the Term Loan during the first quarter of fiscal 2013. During fiscal 2012, we made one quarterly amortization payment of $2.1 million, prepaid $15.6 million of our Term Loan with our excess cash flow, and made a voluntary prepayment of $25.0 million. The excess cash flow payment made during fiscal 2012 was calculated based on fiscal 2011 operating results. We applied the voluntary prepayment and the excess cash flow prepayment toward our remaining quarterly amortization payments payable under the Term Loan in fiscal 2012 and applied the remainder of such prepayments toward our quarterly amortization payments payable under the Term Loan in fiscal 2013 through fiscal 2017. Future minimum principal payments on long-term debt excluding original issuance discount of $1.5 million as of August 3, 2013 are, as follows (in thousands):


Fiscal years
2013	$	—
2014		—
2015		—
2016		—
2017		6,502
Thereafter		1,133,600

Total	$	1,140,102

The Term Loan is presented net of the related original issue discount (“OID”). Accretion of OID is included in interest expense and was not material for the 13 and 26 weeks ended August 3, 2013 or July 28, 2012. The obligations under the Term Loan are secured, subject to certain exceptions, by substantially all of our assets and those of our 100%-owned domestic subsidiaries. The Company and our 100%-owned domestic subsidiaries also have fully and unconditionally guaranteed the Company’s obligations under the Term Loan.

In fiscal 2010, we issued $400 million aggregate principal amount of 9.125% senior notes due in December 2018 (the “Notes”). Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually. If the Company or our subsidiaries sell certain assets, we generally must either invest the net cash proceeds from such sale in our business within a certain period of time, use the proceeds to prepay senior secured debt, or make an offer to purchase a principal amount of the Notes equal to the excess net cash proceeds at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest. Upon a change in control, we may also be required to make an offer to purchase all of the Notes at a redemption price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest. The Notes also contain optional redemption provisions, but subject to certain exceptions, we will not be entitled to redeem the Notes at our option prior to December 1, 2014. The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Company. The Company and our 100%-owned domestic subsidiaries have fully and unconditionally guaranteed the Company’s obligations under the Notes (see Note 17). During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, we repurchased Notes with an aggregate principal amount of $29 million for $26.6 million in cash in privately negotiated transactions. We recorded a $2.4 million gain on extinguishment of debt and a $1.4 million charge related to the write-off of deferred financing costs associated with the extinguished debt.

Interest expense was $20.5 million and $40.9 million for the 13 and 26 weeks ended August 3, 2013, including $1.7 million and $3.4 million, respectively, of amortization of deferred financing costs and accretion of OID. For the 13 and 26 weeks ended July 28, 2012, interest expense was $21.2 million and $42.9 million, respectively, including $1.7 million and $3.5 million, respectively, of amortization of deferred financing costs and accretion of OID.