Dark Day For Hands On Music-Movie Buyers

...Tower 10 15 years ago was the top dog, no argument, but they never changed with the times in my area.
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Nor in S. California. The root cause of their demise.

Tower Records a music store? Give me a break. They sold magazines from Home and Garden to Guns and Ammo,they sold tickets to ANY event in town not just music, they sold movies and perfume. Tower stopped being just a Music store along time ago. Rather than offer competitive prices they started selling everything that wasn't music to balance the books and it failed. Bad advice is what did them in along with the internet. I still buy CD's at brick and mortar stores and they are alot cheaper than Tower has been in ten years. Their demise started back in the mid nineties when a lawsuit aledging gay and lesbian hassasement to employees and not promoting them into management was filed.They were boycotted and they never recovered.

Qdrone, I was gonna say that the only good thing left at tower was the HUGE Magazine selection and the fact it was the easiest place by my house to get Tickets! I just did not want to start anymore wars, But your right that does not warrent the best record store award. Funny thing is now I gotta go to other worst cost place for tickets in the mall, FYE now does Ticketmaster...

i have only had positive experiences at tower records.

i have bought many rare and hard-to-find jazz and classical cds at the west 8th street store in nyc.

i have also shopped online.

fortunately there is amazon, a good source for out of print cds.