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| From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Media Play Bites the Dust |
| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:52:36 -0800 (PST) |
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Maybe Tower is secretly funded by the Illuminati? I do see the strangest people coming in and out of the back room...
Marty
---- <audities@smoe.org> wrote:
>
> I am from Philadelphia, which has 2 Tower Records.
>
> The older one is located on South Street and it seems to be holding its own despite the fact that there are at least 3 indie CD/vinyl stores within a few blocks. The store is pretty cramped and dirty, however. They used to have deep catalogs, but it has progressively gotten worse over the years.
>
> A new Tower opened in midtown about 2 years ago, and I must admit, it is quite nice. 2 spacious floors, very clean, lots of listening stations, plush chairs and deep catalogs in every category of music (except for Classical, where they just reduced the floor space by half to make room for an expansion of DVDs). Prices and selection are still not as good as my fav Philly indie, AKA Music, but it is not nearly as bad as Borders or Barnes and Noble. In fact, I just picked up the new Matt Pond PA for 11.99 and the Love Forever Changes and West Side Story re-issues for 7.99 each.
>
> Speaking of chain stores, the Borders in Bryn Mawr, PA used to have an absolutely incredible music section. It was run as a separate unit of the store and it had a wonderful selection of jazz and rock, great prices, in store appearances, etc. (I saw Nick Lowe perform there with fellow Auditeer Michael Kropp). Unfortunately, the Borders brass killed it off about a year ago and now the music section is just like every other Borders...i.e., horrible selection and outrageous prices. I was so bummed when I walked in and saw that they had walled off the section where it used to be.
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> Mark E.
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marty Rudnick"
> >
> > >I was in Tower Records the other day, picking up a last-minute
> > >birthday gift for my nephew. Their prices were high, and there were
> > >just a sprinkling of customers in the store...during the height of
> > >the Christmas shopping season. Can their demise be far off?
> >
> > You'd think, but haven't they been saying that Tower was going under
> > for something like 15 years now?
> >
> > The only Tower left here is tucked away in Harvard Square. It's a
> > cramped, filthy and disorganized little store, and I swear it hasn't
> > been closed only because the company forgot it's still there. The
> > Newbury Comics across the street eats Tower's lunch.
> >
> > S
> >
>
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