Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

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

I wonder how many of us picked up Nao Wave. I know I did.

Love as Laughter Laughter's Fifth

Built to Spill You In Reverse

The Delgados The Complete BBC Peel Sessions

Make up Sound Verite

Be Your Own Pet s/t

Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

Judy Henske & Jerry Yester Farewell Aldebaran

Total cost: $35.70 (this is at 70% off)

There was still a copy of Superlongevity 4, and quite a bit of M.A.N.D.Y./Get Physical stuff there.

I saw a lot of reggaeton compilations that should never have been bought in such quantities. (Cuban reggaeton, yeah, there's a big demand for that in Philadelphia.)

They're at 80% and there wasn't much left but I still made some good finds, as did donut.

Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection
Joy Zipper - American Whip
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Wildhearts - Must Be Destroyed
Duran Duran (never heard the first album in its entirety, heh)
Some other gag gifts like Cinderella.

They still have a bunch of Associates albums too.

I noticed a couple of copies of Sulk at the U District one. Someone needs to get those.

=(

but i did find a this heat box set there!!!

=)

also grabbed

gary numan - pleasure principle reissue
popul vuh - nosferatu ost
os mutantes - mutantes
big youth - screaming target
v/a - i:robots italo classics
slam - nightdrive dj mix
an absolutely ancient jungle compilation mixed by grooverider

for five bucks each

=(

Ha. I have one cheap courtesy of donut.

but i did find a this heat box set there!!!

=)

GRR.

Felt - Ignite the Seven Cannons
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea Love
DJ Rogers (3xCD import)- It's Good to Be Alive/On the Road Again/Love, Music, & Life
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - The Flood
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Chelonis Jones - Dislocated Genius
Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat
Candi Staton - His Hands

$48.00, which is something considering the bs import prices on most of them.

All hip-hop is $1.00. I'll probably go back for the outlawz cd.I was gonna buy a rap cd from "Law and Orda" for the hell of it, but come on now, a dollar's a dollar. Couldn't find the Tom Moulton mix they had plenty of last week, oh well. Coachwhips got nothing on "HellRaza", there must be 100 copies of his album scattered throughout the store. LAST DAY IS WEDNESDAY, and everything will be 90% off that day according to cashier dude.

The Portland store was a complete madhouse yesterday, with a whole lot of people filling up shopping baskets at a furious rate. I'm really curious what it's gonna look like on Tuesday.

fess up, thief!!

I shoulda bought Nao Wave at 40% off I guess, plus some Fania reissues and that Anita O'Day double cd I was gonna get my Dad.

yesterday I went to sell about 200 cds at amoeba and there were probably 40 they wouldn't even take, most of them not dogs either. I told the manager I'd suddenly realized that if I were going to ever get rid of my cds I'd better do it now before the value of them vanishes and he said it's already happened; it peaked in april, and since then the onslaught of sold-back cds is overwhelming them. they have warehouses full that they will never see the floor in. Ack! Knowing all this, why do I still wish I'd picked up some MORE stuff at tower? ludicrous!