The announcement that long-troubled Tower Records would close at year's end should have came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the decline of record sales since the turn of the century. On the heels CBGB's having its feeding tube removed, New York City's music fans will see a second legendary institution euthanized in short order when the venerable Greenwich Village outpost of California's greatest export since the fish taco shutters for good next Friday, December 22nd.
Eulogy aside, anyone who wants a copy of Hoobastank's "Every Man For Himself" should walk, not run, to the Village Tower, as it seems every copy of this turkey ever pressed can be accounted for here, ditto for Ashley Parker Angel fans...or fan, for accuracy's sake. It's not ALL that dire though. There are still worthy recordings to be found amongst the vanity projects of any number of delusional housewives and coffeehouse kingpins. As of Saturday, all CDs were 70% off, and I made (presumably) my last offering to the grandaddy of the music megastore, picking up the following:
Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (Import)
Ringside - Ringside
Massive Attack - Collected (Greatest Hits)
Fort Minor - The Rising Tied
Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
R.I.P. Tower, you (but not your crazy adherence to the $18.99 list price) will be missed.
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