VINYL RECORDS TO GO THE WAY OF THE DODO! NO MORE VINYL RECORDS!
― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Sunday, 24 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway things I will miss about Tower:
1) Buying Riddim magazine. Now I have to find a Barnes & Noble who stocks it or buy it from VP's record wing.
2) The Market stores fantastic bargain bin which was a treasure trove for imports (esp. Soul Jazz stuff.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I went over to the Tower in Santa Monica the Thursday night before they closed to see if they had anything decent at the 70% off discount. Not only did they have decent stuff, they had a lot of great metal CDs that nobody else was getting because they had never heard of the bands. After much agonizing, I trimmed my purchase down to about $60 worth of stuff. I brought it up to the front counter, and the guy scanned a couple things in and told me that the total was $27. I blinked. He asked me if I had anything else that I put aside, and I nodded quickly and rushed over to where I had left the discard pile. I brought that up front, he scanned the top CD, and gave me about $100 (after the 70% discount) worth of merchandise for $32.50. Since he was losing his job in two days anyway, and any profit was going to the liquidation company that purchased Tower, he had no real reason to care. What were they going to do, fire him? Hell, they cost him his job.
I went back on Sunday morning, since the store was closing and had everything at 90% off, and ended up getting another 27 CDs for $40. I called my friends to let them know, but just as they walked through the door, the guy up front announced that the store was closing and everyone needed to check out. Bummer for them.
My haul, all for a total of about $100 (including a couple CDs that I had purchased at the store earlier for a lesser discount), all brand-new and unopened:
April Wine - Stand BackAyreon - Actual Fantasy RevisitedBlackfoot - StrikesCandlemass - Essential DoomCandlemass - Doomed for LiveCathedral - the Garden of Unearthly DelightsCraft -Fuck the UniverseCronian- TerraDarkest Hour - Undoing RuinDaylight Dies - Dismantling DevotionDead Meadow - Shimmering King and OthersElDopa - The Complete RecordingsEphel Duath - Pain Necessary to KnowFandango - Fandangothe Flaming Lips - at War with the MysticsGenghis Tron - Dead Mountain MouthGuano Apes - Don't Give Me NamesHerod - Rich Man's War... Poor Man's FightHome Video - No Certain Night or MorningKalas - KalasLennon- Damaged GoodsLullacry - Volume 4Merzbow - Rainbow Electronicsthe Mission - ChildrenMotorhead - Ace of SpadesMy Ruin - The Brutal LanguageThe Obsessed - Lunar Womb (Reissue)Passenger- PassengerPentagram - First Daze Here TooPlanes Mistaken for Stars - Knife in the MarathonPoint-Blank - Point-BlankBrian Posehn - Live in: Nerd RageRaunchy - Death Pop RomanceRebel Meets Rebel - Rebel Meets RebelRed Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red SunRed Sparowes/Battle of Mice/Made Out Of Babies - TriadRumpelstiltskin Grinder- Buried in the Front YardSamhain - Final DescentSatyricon - Dark Medieval TimesSatyricon - Rebel ExtravaganzaScar Symmetry - Pitch Black ProgressSuffocation - SuffocationThe Sword - Age of Wintersthe Start - InitiationThunder - ThunderTito and Tarantula - Hungry Sally and Other Killer LullabiesVoivod - KatorzWarrior Soul - Drugs, God, and the new RepublicWitch - WitchWizardzz - Hidden City of TourmondYob - the Unreal Never LivedYyrkoon - Occult MedicineZoroaster - Zoroaster
― Jeff Treppel (JTreppel), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I was a similar beneficiary on what turned out to be my last day in this respect. I wasn't complaining.
Warrior Soul - Drugs, God, and the new Republic
Really, the only great thing on this album is the cover of Joy Division's "Interzone" with the howled "And we rock and ROOOOOOLLLLL!" bit at the very start. Completely ridiculous. That said I admit I can still hum the chorus of the title song after all these years.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I was down in the area of the Costa Mesa Tower today doing some other errands -- no change on the outside of the building or anything yet, just looked forlorn.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaq (jaq), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaq (jaq), Saturday, 30 December 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 30 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― LynnK (klynn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel (JTreppel), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel (JTreppel), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
they closed the miami virgin sometime last spring, and now the space has got that dreadful 'bodies' exhibit from china. ha!
― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 31 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 31 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― maura (maura), Sunday, 31 December 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link
haha. i would. plus i'd be sure to emphasize AMERICA when i said their name.
― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Maura - Appreciate the offer, but I need that Warrior Soul CD to keep my copy of WCA's "Climbin' the Walls" company.
Someone should really start a "Warrior Soul/Wrath Child America Appreciation Thread."
― Jeff Treppel (JTreppel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― pdf (unperson), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel (JTreppel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link