Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

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.)

In order: got it earlier, don't know much about, dang I should have scored that!, hmm I missed out, got other greatest hits comp with better mastering/B-sides.

London Is The Place For Me 3
Sean Paul Stage One
Henske & Yester Farewell Aldebaran
Kray Twins "What We Do" single w/ Low Deep's "Straight Flush (Remix)" as the B-side.

Dance is still pretty strong at the Market store actually. There are a zillion copies of this which really depresses me actually.

I sorta feel like a schmuck for not getting the Maximum Joy 'Unlimited 1979-1983' cd I had in my hand right until I got up to the checkout.

highlights include:

new Liars
new Grizzly Bear
Arthur Russell, world of
Destroyer's Rubies
Herbert - Scale
Sung Tongs
Freeform 5 - Misch Mash v. 2
Optimo Presents Psyche Out

Alex, buy that for me and I'll either paypal you or will pay you directly when I'm in SF next weekend.

-- GAWD PVNCH (elle.zabo...), December 16th, 2006.

are you sending confederates to get it.

anybody bogarts my OHM set and i'll punch yer nose through the internets.

Done. I bought a second copy just in case anyone else is interested in one the half dozen greatest labels evah. They were $6 including tax which is 1/3 of what I paid new :(

Deej, I do. And now I want to go buy Rappin 4-tay's "Don't Fight The Feeling" haha.

If you're going to apply Deej's pickup technique, might I recommend you use the latest Jolie Holland album? Every Tower I've been to seems to have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 copies of it, which is depressing, frankly. It's one of my favorite albums of the year and is probably more lady-friendly than some mid-'90s Bay Area rap.

The two of these I left when I snagged my $12 one were still there, and this time I didn't even bother putting another disk in front of them. Extremely picked over now, but I found a Parliament best of, a jazz disk that looked interesting (Kidd Jordan with Hamid Drake and William Parker, I think Jordan's been mentioned on an ILM jazz thread), and the Daevid Allen/Gong disk with the horrible cover. There's still a couple I'm waiting for %80 off before I splurge.

larry young - into somethin'
the knife - silent shout
kylie minogue - impossible pricess (2 disc import)
luomo - the present lover
esg - a south bronx story
wolf eyes - human animal
comets on fire - avatar
carla bozulich - evangelista
gwen mccrae (a 2 albums on one CD import)
american amp and alternator - s/t
nao wave: brazil post punk 1982-1988
the free design - kites are fun & one by one