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In Reply to: Time to move on..... posted by Sordidman on October 17, 2006 at 09:22:04:
Tower was a business and like any other I suppose they were not saints. But There were plenty of good deals to be had during their departmental sales, label sales, and semi annual storewide clearance sales. There was also a sense of community I and others will miss. It might be a conversation you strike up with a fellow jazz shopper about the different musicians you like, and maybe suggest something to each other. Or maybe talking about how we each felt about Coltrane's later period with the guy who worked there and had a jazz show on public radio. Or maybe it was the guy in the blues department who turned me on to Lightning Hopkins. Or when Suzanne Vega gave a free in store concert (true it was to promote her new release, but no one was holding a gun to your head). It was this sense of community a good record store provides and something some of us will miss and may feel sad about. So please forgive us for prefering it. It was something I'll take over a cold mechanical download any day of the week.
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Maybe not at your Tower, - but the second that one would walk in the door of my Tower, = you were just another mark, - someone to get ripped off by the industry....
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it, your head'll collapse if there's nothing in it then you'll ask yourself, where is my mind?
Sounds like it was more of an Indy store...There was never a sale worth squat at the one in SF on Market St, - only overpriced, ridiculous, industry tools...
You'd never find a knowledgable staff member at my Tower....
I'm sorry that you lost a good record store, - very un-Tower compared to the nightmare that is the SF store....
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it, your head'll collapse if there's nothing in it then you'll ask yourself, where is my mind?
I guess there was some variance among each one. Ours was pretty good considering it was a chain store. I did notice some drop off in selection and the number of sales starting around the late 90's onwards. I consider Borders (which never has anything but certain selected discs on sale) to be a much bigger rip off than Tower was, and with an overall not as good selection. Luckily I got while the gettin was good (before the major biggies raised retail prices sharply to get more money in response to the supposed loss created by the whole Napster thing). These days my collection is about where I want it to be, but I'll still miss the occaisional trip to Tower.
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