Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

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!

This is fascinating. There's a massive glut of the objects on the market (plus the Tower liquidation had to hurt all other music retailers) and still prices don't fall. How can music continue to cost money when it can be endlessly replicated for free? The future has to point to music being free.

So why are Amoeba used prices so high then? And why aren't there more things I want when I go in there. :(

islands - return to the sea
neko case - the tigers have spoken
black heart procession - the spell
moodymann - black mahogani
detroit cobras - baby
annie - anniemal
black strobe - the other side: paris
mountain goats - we shall all be healed
architecture in helsinki - in case we die
excepter - sunbomber
echo and the bunnymen - songs to learn and sing
nao wave
jolie holland - springtime can kill you
the hold steady - boys and girls in america (i don't like these dudes, but it'll make a good stocking stuffer for someone)

Not my tastes anyway.

"but i've found amoeba's used prices to be fairly reasonable."

Too much stuff for $11, $12, $13 at the SF one. The Berkeley one is more reasonable, I agree.

haha all my relatives are getting california g-rap in their stockings

You didn't hear it from me, but there's a very good rumor that the Virgin Megastores are going to be the next to go in mid-2007. It won't be a full-on bankruptcy like Tower, but lots of store closures/stock liquidation.

When I was a kid, the Tower Records near the sports arena in San Diego was, for me, the ultimate record store, the coolest place in the universe. It feels a little weird to realize that it won't exist anymore, and it won't even make a good story for my grandkids. I mean, I even worked at a Tower when I was a teenager.

-- Elvis Telecom (quartzcit...), December 19th, 2006. (later)

that's not surprising at all, they're down to something like 13 stores. newbury comics is a larger chain at this point!

-- Mark (mark-...), December 18th, 2006.

So musicians will only make money by performing live? I don't think so. Will all Pitchfork employees work for free?

Will all Pitchfork employees work for free?

-- cornyrocker

I worry about it all the time, believe me.

I went back today and picked up:

Nao Wave (which I had forgotten to look for previously, and was very surprised to find)
Legendary Sound, Vol. 1 (which Alex in SF recommends, I thought on this thread, not that I expect much overlap in our taste but I hardly have any drum & bass and was just thinking I might want to pick up a little tiny bit more)

Dubstep Allstars Vol 2 (3 or 4 copies left, none of Vol 3)
Get Physical comps 1 & 2 (or Anniversary 2 & 4, I can't quite figure it out.) (one copy of each left)
Optimo Presents Psyche Out (nearly 10 copies of this, I suppose I could wait for it to get cheaper, but $5 seems fair enough.)
Science Faction: Grime (last copy)
Dabrye Two/Three (last copy)