Hey Freak!

I just read today that Tower Records is closing.

I'm gonna be sad to see Tower go. Sure, a lot of their CD's were pretty expensive, but you could always count on Tower to find those really hard-to-find CD's. Plus, all the cool extras they sold. Movie memorabilia. Action figures. DVDs and magazines. It's like a "cool stuff" general store.

And they're going out of business.

And it's no big surprise. Hell, with the advent of online music store, combined with the fact that more and more people have faster and faster connections? Yeah, that pretty much spells doom for a retailer. (Hello, Sam Goody!) But it shouldn't. With all of the extra stuff Tower sells, it shouldn't.

Or, maybe it should anyway, but my fondness for Tower Records blinds me to that reality. Don't get me wrong - it's not like I went there all the time. But it was always nice to know that if you needed it, it was there. Even if I didn't have anything in particular I was looking for, I'd still go to Tower once in a while, just to look around. Sure, I could surf the 'net much faster, but really... there's something to be said about the joys of... flipping through CD's, then remembering one that you always forget to look for, and actually finding it. There's something to be said for perusing. I'm gonna miss that.

I guess that's "progress."

There's something to be said for old skool. R.I.P., Tower Records.

The one near my office has been dying a slow death for years. For months now I have been thinking, "Who the hell actually buys physical CDs any more?" every time I walk by on my way to lunch.
Today I saw the big "Going Out of Business" sign and decided to take a stroll through the store.

The prices were so retarded I got MAD at them. The new Killers CD was *on sale* for $18.99. That's a sale? No wonder they're GOOB.

You must've had a super Tower or something close to you. All of the ones I've been in were never cool, never had any even moderately-hard-to-find CDs, no movie memorabilia or action figures. The mega one in Boston had books and and magazines and movies, but that's about it, and their selection of those wasn't that great. Plus, the prices were insane. How can they expect me to pay $17 for a disc when I can go literally four doors down to Newbury Comics and get that same disc for $12, plus three others that Tower doesn't have but that I was looking for?

I honestly do not believe I've ever been inside a Tower Records. Ever.

haha - rest in peace.

We used to have a Tower Records in Toronto, but they closed after a few years; they had an amazing book selection.

The CD prices were a tad high, but I still thought it was a great store.

I hardly ever buy CD's anymore.

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