Dark Day For Hands On Music-Movie Buyers

Tower was always over priced which didn't make any since. They bought in bulk and yet independent music stores charged less for new titles and there back catalog. I will admit I used to go to Tower for jazz because of the selection but I won't miss them at all. They had over 5 years to turn it around and yet they never brought their prices down to a competitive level.When the wherehouse stated selling used merchandise Tower stayed the course so they could have big promotional displays rather than give the customer what they wanted... affordable merchandise.

Yes jaybo but the music collector that truely shops for the bargin has the beach front property in the here after.

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.