Fucking Tower Records...

[kfoll]

Well, I posted a rant bulletin on Myspace, for all the good that'll do. But I'm pissed about this because of those poor employees.

However, they are running 30% discounts on all CDs and 60% off books & magazines. *sigh* if you want to help those vultures pick apart all the Tower stock, better go get while the gettin's good.

[ratanda]

I don't know what your bulletin was about, but from your post I assume they're going out of business?

[holly]

Damn, I would be all over those books...

[ProstheticHead12]

I don't know what your bulletin was about, but from your post I assume they're going out of business?

Yeah they're going out of business, and everything's on sale. I don't know about the rest of the rant.

[kfoll]

Well, they went bankrupt, and this corporate vulture, aka "liquidator" called the Great American Group bought them out.

I asked one of their employees about that, and she had no idea what was going to happen. She thought the company that had bought them was FYE or someone connected to them. I only found out about that liquidator when I researched it this morning. So all those employees are there selling that shit, bringing about their own loss of a job. In the meantime, those bankrupt CEOs are lounging around poolside somewhere thinking of the next corporate scam to get involved in.

That was the gist of the rant, that the store employees have to lose their jobs right before Christmas.

[BoB]

I haven't bought a cd from a store in years. So I guess their bankruptcy is my fault.

The first thing that comes to mind about Tower employees is how they'd take dibbs on good new releases to the point where the store was instantly out of stock of that item as soon as it should have been available.

I bet those Tower CEOs are lounging at the same pool as the Deathgasm CEOs! pigs.

[WREKage-Paul]

Sorry, any Tower Records employees who thought their jobs were in any way secure were deluding themselves.

They have ALWAYS been the bricks-and-mortar CD store of last resort. I check for metal CDs first at The End Records, then Laser's Edge and a few other online retailers, and as a last resort I'd consider calling or dropping by Tower if Best Buy doesn't stock it. Tower's CDs were sometimes priced the same as, say, Best Buy, but more often than not they were $16 up to $19. For domestics, not imports.
After a while, people surely realized they were being had. I knew the end was near when they killed their little snack-shop, and then quit buying used CDs.

We'll miss Tower, though. Their selection was usually second-to-none and it was always a good place to drop by when "in town."

[ProstheticHead12]

Sorry, any Tower Records employees who thought their jobs were in any way secure were deluding themselves.

They have ALWAYS been the bricks-and-mortar CD store of last resort. I check for metal CDs first at The End Records, then Laser's Edge and a few other online retailers, and as a last resort I'd consider calling or dropping by Tower if Best Buy doesn't stock it. Tower's CDs were sometimes priced the same as, say, Best Buy, but more often than not they were $16 up to $19. For domestics, not imports.
After a while, people surely realized they were being had. I knew the end was near when they killed their little snack-shop, and then quit buying used CDs.

We'll miss Tower, though. Their selection was usually second-to-none and it was always a good place to drop by when "in town."

The tower records in NYC sucked. Perhaps they had been picked over, but I couldn't find shit in the way of decent metal, and even with 30% off shit was way overpriced. I went to two of em and never found anything I was looking for.

[AmoebicDysentery]

Tonight I made my 2nd trip to this sale. It's now at 40% off but a lot of shit is already gone. I couldn't find anything I went there to specifically look for, but I did manage to snag a few things.