Tower Records out of business

[Jim Colyer]

I could not believe it. I saw the sign on the Tower Records building on West End Avenue in Nashville---"Going Out Of Business." A clerk explained that massive debt caused the 89-store chain to be sold to a liquidator. I researched it. Tower Records began in Sacramento, California in 1960. Overexpansion was blamed for its collapse. What does this mean? Will a hole be dug somewhere and millions upon millions of garbage CDs bulldozed into it? All the obscene rap, drug noise and tattooed homosexual foulness of the last 25 years? Will the Tower buildings be razed? Will salt be poured on the earth where they stood so nothing can grow?

[Kellenator]

The Tower Records store in Annapolis shut down a few months ago. Now if I want to go to a decent record store, I have to drive about 45 minutes to an FYE.

[MiKe]

The Tower near me is still open and doing fine. It's the only place around here that I like, I'd be pretty pissed if they closed.

[ccorces1]

yeah tower is done, hopefully they'll just start giving away cds soon

[MiKe]

That's pretty gay. But at least I still got Looney Tunes and Slipped Disc (a privately owned local music store, they have literally ANYTHING you can think of, great for "underground" bands and rare shit)

[( ((hoBodav)) )]

The Tower Records store in Annapolis shut down a few months ago. Now if I want to go to a decent record store, I have to drive about 45 minutes to an FYE.

Ha. FYE, one of the most crappy, overpriced preppy rip-off music stores in existence. If you're willing to drive 45 mintues, why don't you come up to Baltimore and visit Soundgarden? There's only 2 in the country, and the CDs are very inexpensive. Lots of rare stuff too.

Or you could pay a visit to the Record & Tape Traders in Severna Park.