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Tower Records closes its doors...
I just learned that the legendary Tower Records I literally lived and breathed in has finallly and abruptly closed all their retail stores throughout.
Personally this has saddened me so since musically I grew up along side this record retailer and always believed that they would somehow stay afloat in this ever growing internet world of downloadable music.
I have very fond youthful memories from Tower Records and I remember vividly my LP purchases and my first cd purchase and the countless hours I used to spent till closing time at midnight just browsing and fullfilling all my musical interests. I used to get so awestruck and such a rush being surrounded by all this music and all those space age silver compact discs regardless of genre.
After the small yet uniquely specialized New York record store Footlight closed its shop and after this sad announcement of Tower Records finally closing its doors, I cannot attest if other remaining music retail stores will soon follow but I truly hope this will not be the case and a likely trend even though I'm afraid it will be.
I'm not even sure anymore if some of the internet soundtrack film score retailers and record labels we all know and love will stop selling and manufacturing cd's and have film music available only through downloading.
What a horrible thought!
http://www.avrev.com/news/1006/12.tower.shtml
serifiot, January 28, 2007; 5:15 PM
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Soon it will not be just the music but we will be downloading food, water, air to breathe, people to love, everything.
42zaphod, January 28, 2007; 7:50 PM
My days of buying soundtracks will be over if downloading is the only option
dspin24358, January 28, 2007; 9:37 PM
It wouldn't be so bad if you could download LOSSLESS compressed files like APE, FLAC, etc., but MP3, iTunes and the like is just unacceptable quality to me. I see the Polish soundtrack.pl site is offering APE file downloads with artwork. I hope others follow suit.
http://soundtracks.pl/musicshop.php?change_lang=en
piano632, January 29, 2007; 12:06 AM
For some people (including myself) it's still not only a question of sound quality.
42zaphod, January 29, 2007; 5:41 AM
It's funny that you say this on an *online* message board, David, but of course I know what you mean and agree with you.
42zaphod, January 29, 2007; 12:53 PM
I clicked on the link serifiot gave and immediately saw the Tower on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles my brother and I would go to each week with a budget of $30.00 (often spending a little bit more).
He would start of one end of the soundtrack rack, I on the other, grabbing, putting back, grabbing again and deciding which recordings to buy.
It was always an great experience! Such a vast selection back in the day when the way to buy recordings was by walking into music stores and thumbing through racks of thousands of L.P's.
Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles was an experience in itself. On the streets you would see streetwalkers, down and outs, cops, film actors and other assorted psychotics doing whatever they needed to do in order to survive L.A.!
We would drive the long winding road from the coast up to Hollywood smoking a couple of thin marijuana reefers or maybe a bowl of black Hawaiian hashish along the way anticipating what treasures will be found at Tower. And treasures there always were!
Some of my first Morricone's and Goblin's were bought in that place. Recordings I have to this very day some 25 or 27 years later!
Across the street was Tower annex where the discounted or cut outs were sold along with an amazing selection of classical music!
Tower records in West Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The place for film music recordings and recordings from any other genre. A hell of a ride!
victoravalentine, January 29, 2007; 1:06 PM
In Tokyo there are 2 Tower Record stores, they are full of cds!! I have bought lots of rarities there!!
tyuan74, January 31, 2007; 6:21 AM
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