Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

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.

haha, yeah I picked up a pile of those fall cds but ended up putting them all back. The double CDs seem like a good value on the surface but it seems like the 2nd disc is never essential.

Is the Lizzie Borden movie Born In Flames any good?

I got

This Heat box (the store has a second one!)
Les Savy Fav 3/5 (long gone in Portland)
Judee Sill Heart Food (ditto)
Jesu s/t (ditto)
Arthur Russell Another Thought
The Incredible String Band The Chelsea Sessions
Matt Bianco Whose Side Are You On? (I don't think I've seen a copy of this since the eighties)

From this, I deduce that South San Jose is nowhere near as infested with hipsters as Portland, and also that Tower Records centralized ordering process may have contributed somewhat to its downfall.

josh wink profound sounds vol 3 $2
kelley polar love songs of the hanging gardens $2
hardleaders suspect package $5

i am tutoring down off silver creek valley road tomorrow ... maybe i will swing by the blossom hill store and check it out - do they have a good dance section?

still can't believe The Shortwave Set has survived...get with it, folks!

i was there over the weekend and there was still quite a bit of stock on the shelves but most of the good stuff had already been snapped up.

I hear you. (I've already made a pretty good catch on those myself.)

I sit here debating whether or not I want to drive 10 minutes to check it out each day.

Curious (George) - isn't there some amazing market in Memphis as well? If pickins are slim at Tower, there's always mojo criollo, ginger beer, etc.