Lounge of Tomorrow - Bye Bye Tower Records

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Yeah, essentially Tower is now giving everyone the same discounts we've been anjoying as KCRW members - so really there's no price diff for us - maybe next time.

If tprices get really good, I may want to use this as an opportunity to fill in my "have on vinyl but not on CD" collection. There are quite a few recordings I don't own on CD that I'd like to.

10%? Pfffft... Disney gives me a better discount on in-park food!

The music stores just flat out wanted too much, and even then I often couldn't find what I was looking for. Tower usually did have the best selection, but best does not mean great, and you can have every CD I've ever dreamed of, but if you charge too much, I'm not buying.

The CDs I have bought in the last couple years (and they are few and far between) have been from Target or WalMart. Not a good selection at all, but if they have the CD I'm looking for the prices can't be beat. And if the music's old enough that they don't carry it, then I can probably torrent it.

The Tower near us had people out on corners waving signs advertising 30% off this last weekend. Of course, I lived within a mile of this Tower for the last 18 months and had no idea it was there until two weeks ago so maybe they are in more dire straights.

There are some books, magazines and posters at 30% off, but the CDs and DVDs are still only at 10% at the Tower we visited.

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Originally Posted by lizziebith

Seriously, we used to make pilgramages to Tower on Sunset from O.C. Our friend Frank got his transmission ruined by one errant knee on one packed-sub-compact trip... And, no, Licorice Pizza did not sell pizzas...though I'd happily take orders from the crank-callers who tried to pull that when I worked there...I worked with Sub-Lagoon and Boss Radio at the one in Orange, and never learned to like licorice in the 5 years I spent there. Sorry I wrote you guys up!:blush: Remember "you get it nicer at Licorice Pizza?" I remember us saying "just be glad you get it at all" once we got bought by the big corporate idiots...

Tower gone = end of my vinyl-buying days makes a headline. But now I only shop Amoeba anyway. *sigh* l love Amoeba...But Tower: RIP old friend.

You raise an interesting point - even though we worked at a record store, where did we go on our precious day off? To the Hollywood record stores, of course: Aaron's, Renee's, the Sunset Licorice Pizza and Tower. And, of course, the infamous Capitol Records swap meet, where you could find bootlegs, rare vinyl, or in Lizzie's case, giant cardboard Dream Police...

The signs say "Up to 30% Off" around here. When you go in it's 10% of CDs and 305 off books.

The Dram Police, they live inside my head.

Tower did have a large selection of toys - cool action figures, Nightmare stuff, Ugly Dolls, etc. I know a few swanky kids that would enjoy these.

It appears that things are truly in their last days now.

Assuming they are all on the same schedule the final day is Friday. I drove by our local one this evening and saw that so I decided to stop in.

They're selling the shelving if you want it. Absolutely everything was 70% off and 99% of it was crap but I managed to find a handful of DVDs to buy. I didn't even look at the music.

Yeah, that was the whole problem with this .. and other close-out sales. The initial discounts aren't low enough for me ... but that's when all the good stuff eventually sells out. By the time the discounts are really what I would consider Going Out of Business Sale prices, all that's left is sh!t.

Bottom Ironic Line: I've visited my local Tower zero times in the past 3 months of their prolonged departure, and would probably visit (and buy) 2 or 3 times in any 3 month period before that since the day they opened.