Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

Oh, but fuck Knocturnal...i want my dollar back.

Most of those terrible West Coast rap CDs that you'll find in abundance at the liquidation sales were distributed by Tower-owned Bayside, who made a lot of poor decisions when it came to urban music. Most of this stuff had been collecting dust in the warehouse and probably would have forever (or at least until it got dumpstered).

Regardless, if Bayside bought/distributed it, it more than likely made it into Tower stores. Since both those entities will cease to exist soon, you probably won't find artists like this with widespread mainstream availability anymore.

To be fair, Tower was pretty decent about getting Southern stuff (certainly better than most chainstores.) They had a lot of pre-Major Without A Major Deal Swishahouse stuff and various other Screwed Up Click stuff at the SF ones.

isolee - 'western store' and 'wearemonster'
luciano - 'sci fi hi fi'
erase errata - 'night life'
meat purveyors - 'someday soon things will be much worse!'
a pair of studio one comps
a certain ratio - 'i'd like to see you again'
wolf parade - 'apologies to the queen mary'

Zuco 103: Whaa!
Zuco 103: Tales of High Fever
Suba [various artist]: Tributo

That's it for me.

Rock/pop now 70%. There is still stuff someone would want.

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Al, I don't know when the DC store is gonna close. It used to have 2 levels and only one is open now. Oh yeah, I bought that Dengue Fever Cambodian garage pop cd that's in that picture, at the Alexandria store awhile back for 50% off, and last week I saw about 30 copies of it on sale in the DC store for $1.50 each. Rap is down to 75 cents each in DC I think.

Also: This person's Amazon Marketplace storefront seems to consist entirely of items purchased at Tower's liquidation sale

Yeah, a depressing number of the leases were purchased by FYE and fucking Walgreen's of all places. At least a few of the California stores' leases were picked up by Rasputin, which is definitely an upgrade.

Passing by the original locations and seeing them turned into video-focused FYE stores is going to be hard to stomach.

Michael Mayer Touch
Lukie D Deliver Me
Various World is Gone
Saian Supa Crew Hold-Up
And Ciara's "Oh" single and Brook Valentine's "Girlfight" single cuz they were both 50 cents and there is a Kardinal remix on the former and I don't really want Brook's album but that track is aces.

$22 total.

i will miss you, tower cherry hill.

-- Baron Von Jigglesworth (...), December 16th, 2006

woah ... when i was at the palo alto location the other day the manager was talking a lot of shit about the owner of rasputin, i guess he had dropped by. that conversation makes more sense now! i hope we get a rasputin in palo alto ...

dance got cut to $1 at some point a few days ago and BAM, everything *gone*.

i picked up

black devil disco club - $1
black dice "smiling off" - $1
miss kittin bugged out mix - $3
studio one lovers - $7
norman jay presents philadelphia - $7
sounds of monsterism island - $9

i guess that's it for that ... pretty much NOTHING left at this point that i don't already own a copy of.

also dropped by the blossom hill tower, sure enough, pretty fucking depressing. grabbed annie's dj kicks for $3 and broadcast's "tender buttons" for $3. might drop by on sunday and see if i can get big youth's "screaming target" for $1. they had a copy of this too ... is it worth it for $15???

Suba: Sao Paulo Confessions
Cibelle: s/t
Cibelle: Shine of the Dried Electric Leaves

(Shit I'm checking samples of something I was thinking of buying and it was definitely worth the $2.70, to the point where I'm tempted to go buy right now and get it. It's almost a miracle that it's left, but it's somewhat obscure. Philly Tower closing FAP in 20 minutes anyone? No, that's okay.)

(Tower closing sale addiction.)

I didn't think to look for pr0n videos. :(

larry levan -- journey into paradise
chelonis r. jones -- dislocated genius
planningtorock-- have it all
optimo -- how to kill the dj pt. II
talk talk -- natural history

a bit over $20.

Los Nemus del Pacifico: Montuneando con Los Nemus

(And someone was asking me about an album that was left that I own.)