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From: "Marty Rudnick" <mrudnick@marturo.com>

>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