Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

i know they might get seriously desperate and it could wind up being $10 or something, but i don't have the guts to play that kind of chicken, you know?

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Also got a Krautrock DVD (w/AD II, Guru Guru, Jane, and more, but it's some kind of re-union thing - they look decidedly middle-aged in the pics on the back. AD II do Archangels Thunderbird, All the Years 'Round, Kanaan, a 3 others, so I've gotta see it. And a litle more jazz collection filling out, came to $70.

And hip-hop in Pasadena is now $1.50 each, but that may be temporary.

Miri Ben-Ari: The Hip-Hop Violinist
Goldie Lookin' Chain: S/T and Straight Outta Newport
Wiley : Treddin' On Thin Ice
V/A: Run The Road
Mindy Smith: Long Island Shores
Mutual Admiration Society: S/T
Terror Squad: True Story
Mike Marshall & Chris Thiele: Live
The Duhks: Your Daughters & Your Sons
Dengue Fever: Escape from Dragon House
Slum Village: Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1
K-Os: Joyful Rebelion
Field Mob: Light Pole sand Pine Trees
Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal: Brasilidade
The Coup: Pick a Bigger Weapon
Guru: Jazzmatazz: Streetsoul
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: Best of
Soul Position: Everything Is Better with RJ and AL

I'm honestly not all that interested in all the grime and backpacker hip hop I got, but I am interested in it enough to listen to it once, then sell to finance all the other stuff I bought.

All the Sugar Hill titles were two bucks or less, so I was able to load up on stuff like The Duhks and all the Nickel Creek side projects on the cheap. If you want to see what other labels Bayside distributed and might have titles available for ridiculously low prices, you can check here.

Who is this person (and what sex is it)? First saw that name on Don Omar credits.

They keep playing the worst music in Tower, not that that's exctly a change, but last night they played the same CD over, some depressing rock shit. I think it might have been something famous, actually, some roots of punk or roots of indie type album. Are the employees trying to make the customers suffer for their bargains? Or maybe the management is only letting them have that one CD?

If they don't budge for you and I can't find one myself, expect an e-mail! And a PayPal payment. ;-)

Hey Alex, so I picked up this Mad Professor Method to the Madness comp that looked good.

can i just say that if you see a copy of that dj spooky trojan mix set for under, like, seven dollars you should get it? it's nothing you haven't heard before but he actually does a very good job of putting a set together.

Yes, I saw one last night. Hmm maybe I should go back and grab it. I couldn't remember how much I got mine for but I guess $40 is a pretty damn good price come to think of it.

BTW, this is the Woodland Hills location Chaki mentioned upthread.

Six Degrees still only 60% off.

Choppa - Comin Back Home
Chrome Children - s/t
Dubee aka Sugawolf - s/t
Dubee aka Sugawolf - For That Scrilla
Dubee aka Sugawolf - Turf Matic
Mac Mall - Immaculate
Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
RBL Posse - Hostile Takeover
RBL Posse - Ruthless By Law
Rodney O & Joe Cooley - Fuck New York
Rodney O & Joe Cooley - Get Ready to Roll
Shock G - Fear of a Mixed Planet
Soul Position - Things Go Better with RJ and Al
Trae - Restless
The Whoridas - High Times

BG and Flame Present Play It How It Go
DJ Ideal and Bun B - Da Bottom, Vol. 4
Kane & Abel Present Kings of da South Volume 2
Mista B Low Presents Down-South Compilation - Down in tha Dirty
OG Ron C Presents Paid In Full
OG Ron C Presents Fuck Action 39
Rapid Ric & Chamillionaire - Whut It Dew Vol. 1
Thizz Nation Vol. 5
Thizz Nation Vol. 6

I picked up some teen girl punk comps, Bad English, Fapardokly, Mick Ronson, Three 6 Mafia, a few Benjamin Biolays, Jimmy Webbs, Barbara Manning, Jill Scott, I forget what else. Too much is not cheap enough yet.

brightblack morning light "s/t"
burmese "men"
gate "the dew line"
excepter "sunbomber"
rephlex records "grime" comp. (lol)
jesu "silver" ($5!)

the only soul jazz comp left was arthur russell so i picked one up, no idea what it's like. score of the night: black devil "disco club" for 74 cents!!

black devil "disco club" for 74 cents!!

YAAARGH! is it the cd-single on rephlex or a full reissue?

booka shade - 'movements' and 'memento'
the knife - 'silent shout'
tim hecker - 'mirage'
saint etienne - 'songs for mario's cafe'
fiery furnaces - 'bitter tea'
wayne shorter - 'speak no evil'
andrew hill - 'pax'
nina nastasia - 'the blackened air'
burial - s/t
uusitalo - 'tulenkantaja'
colder - 'heat'
the dresden dolls - 'yes, virginia'
the handsome family - 'milk and scissors'

plus a dvd of the awesome japanese horror film 'the booth.

$96 bucks!

The Beatles - The Capitol Albums Vol.2

The longbox packaging is even worse than I'd been lead to believe. I bought this mostly for Rubber Soul, but I don't think I'm ever going to feel it again the way I once did.

Pete Rodriguez - I Like It Like That

Good, solid boogaloo.

Willie Colon/Hector Lavoe - El Juicio
Larry Harlow: Hommy
Azuquita: Pura Salsa

Replacements for the previous CD reissues I owned. Sound better all around. I don't love Hommy as much as some people though.

Hector "El Bambino" & Naldo Presentan: Sangre Nueva

Good reggaeton collection, though the best tracks are mostly on the first disc. Anyway, worth it to me.

LunyTunes - Reggaeton Hits

Not worth what I paid for it, and this was never on even my most expansive list of things to buy eventually.

Adassa - Kamasutra

Iffy, but I really do like a couple tracks on here ("De Tra" especially) and I think I would have been tempted to buy it eventually. Also, I think she's going to be doing better things down the road, so I like having this, for some reason.

Hector Bambino "El Father": Los Rompe Discotekas

Not very good, as expected, but cheap.

Voltio: s/t

Really not too good, though I haven't quite made my way through the whole thing. Aside from a couple tracks I like a lot, there's a lot of mediocrity here.

Xiomara: s/t

Very good romantic dinner music.

Enrique Chia: La Musica de Ernesto Lecuona

Unlistenable because too rooted in the romantic era of classical music for my taste. Lush violins. Yuk.

Not really a triumphant set of purchases. (Then again, when I buy things at full price I often end up with similar results.)

Boris - Pink
Clinic - 4 EPs
Futureheads - News And Tributes
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
Knife - Silent Shout
Seke Molenga & Kalo Kawongolo - Lee Perry Presents...African Roots (there's about a half dozen of these left)
Montrose
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Suburbs - In Combo

I saw some other goodies, like Associates reissues, so it's worth skimming through.

The Longcut - "A Call & Response" (Anthony H. Wilson likes them, new Manchester band, mentioned on Factory mailing list, yowza, better than Marion, that's for sure - I love it)

Negativland - Escape From Noise (I'm going to come out of the closet and admit I never actually owned this one, though why is anyone's guess. That was the first time I ever knew Negativland existed was when this was played on college radio in my town over and over - Time Zones and the little girl singing about the over the rainbow thing, and also Christianity Is Stupid.)

I also got a live video of Chic that has Nile Rodgers (obviously no one can bring Bernard Edwards or Tony the drummer out of their graves) and a couple of really good looking black women are in that. Still I wish it were Sister Sledge, though.

I also bought a DVD of Nik Kershaw videos. I don't know why. I guess I got carried away. It was somewhat interesting, I guess. But man, what was I thinking?

Also, if anyone on earth wants a copy of the Towers of London's album, Tower on Sunset is yr hookup. I mean good GOD.

My guess is we're reaching collective tipping point on a lot of this -- elsewhere donut in Seattle suggested that everything will be hoovered up by people looking for Amazon resales more than anything else. Kinda doubt it will be all that complete but we'll see.

soul jazz "new york noise 2"
isolee - "western store"
losoul - "getting even"
dj food - "refried food" 2cd
booka shade - "memento"
greg wilson - "credit to the edit"
v/a - "soma compilation, vol 3"

a little less cost-effective, this altogether cost me around $40.

at this point nothing left in my local store except soul jazz comps and uber-ridiculously priced imports (single disc comps for $36) which aren't really cost-effective at 60% off. there are signs everywhere which say "10 days left" which makes me think i'll drop back in around the 18th and see what's left.

lemme know if it hits $1 or $2 status for dance or reggae ...

I would love to get this. IF THE PRICE WASN'T SO STUPIDLY HIGH STILL.