The writing has been on the wall for a while now but it seems that after the sale of Tower Records, all of their stock is going to be liquidated and the stores closed down. I don’t know about anyone else around here but I used to drop plenty of money at Tower on a wide range of music and movies. Thanks to Tower, I discovered a lot of jazz and classical artists and music I’ll never find at Borders or Best Buy. It’s sad but you could see this closure coming for years now, as they pared down their selection of fringe stuff and began to focus only on more popular music to drive sales.
Tower, thanks for Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane. Thanks for all the imports I could never have found anywhere else. Thanks for the late night music runs and the hours spent pouring over music I’d never heard of before.
