Tower Records -- the continuing collapse

I also noticed restocking, included large quantities of certain disks (The Real Tuesday Weld being one such band). And I'm sure those ComSat Angels weren't there when I went over a week ago.

got lots of great stuff at the blockbuster closing sale on south street too. they just kept backing up trucks to the door and unloading old videos. last day was like 99.9 percent off or something. but by then you only had tai bo and benny hill comps left.

as far as the tower on south street, ugh, they should have nuked it years ago. it was a black hole for years. so gross and bad. not at all what it was like when it opened. it just deteriorated more and more as time went on. the one that opened on broad was was a little better. just cuz it was new and all. still pretty lame though. magazine section was halfway decent.

I went last Saturday and got some good stuff .... couldn't find any rap albums I wanted for the 70% discount though. picked up some dance imports and two older Oneida CDs.

the imports aren't that great of a deal yet, the 40% off knocks them down to the price of a regular CD at Best Buy ($12 or so).

For $30 I picked up:
Schoolly D-A Gangster's Story
Oneida-A Place Called El Shaddai's
Ice Cube-Greatest Hits
No Limit Greatest Hits

-- Dr M (wjwe...), November 30th, 2006. (Dr Morbius)

its part of a stripmall type thing near the Georgetown/Foggy Bottom metro stop

yes.

What I ended up getting: Various Artists, The House That TRANE Built: The Story of Impulse Records; Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen; Teena Marie, Love Songs; Terry Allen, Lubbock (On Everything); The Avalanches, When I Met You (a.k.a. the Gimix set. WTF?). In total, about $58,

What I ended up not getting: The Music of Islam, Vol. 13; Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche à Bamako ; Charles Mingus, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus; The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning Strike; Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder; Patty Waters, College Tour; The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love; Gavin Bryars et al., On Photography; Richie Valens, In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High; a DVD documentary on William Eggleston; a four-hour Colt Studio porno based on Brokeback Mountain (nb: I have never bought/rented/borrowed/stolen a porn video in my life, seriously); and some few others by the artists listed in the first para above.

Waah.

Kind of weird how that few dollars makes that much of a difference. But then again I'm a poor college student.

I wonder if the flood of available product is going to depress Amazon Marketplace prices even more.

went to tower in emeryville today, 50% off. there was a surprising
amount of good stuff.

i bought:

juana molina: son (last copy)
new mojave three
nouvelle vague: new one
liars: drums not dead
the knife: silent shout
mccartney: s/t and ram
gravenhurst: some ep
thee more shallows: more deep cuts

$77.

there are a number of electronic things I'll go back and buy if they're still there and the prices drop as well

the big takeover issue 58 (59 cents!)
kogan's book
lansing-dreiden the dividing island
trembling blue stars her handwriting reissue
primitives buzz buzz buzz: the complete lazy recordings
the fall middle class revolt and perverted by language expanded editions
starz coliseum rock
jamc automatic reissue
kate & anna mcgarrigle heartbeats accelerating
skeeter davis all american country
space needle recordings 1994-1997
babyshambles down in albion (yeah yeah, i know)
free design one by one and there is a song
ethiopiques 12 and 21

Studio One Lovers
Sound Dimension Jamaica Soul Shake Vol 1
King Jammy in Roots
Bunny Wailer Black Hearted Man
Sizzla Da Real Thing
Lee Perry Presents African Roots

! Maybe they *are* planning on nuking everything before Xmas. V. glad I was going to swing by again today.

Damn! I went to the Tustin store yesterday. Ethiopiques, Al Green, Fairport Convention, Thomas Mapfumo, Leo Kottke, Solomon Burke, etc. etc.

WELL THIS CRAP AIN'T GONNA BUY ITSELF