http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:20:29 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/10/07/235203.php#comment-745503 Very sad to see tower gone. I have always been a music fan and never got to visit the Flagship store on Sunset. Somehow though, I just found out that a few years ago, my Dad got his hands on the audio system from the original store on the Sunset Strip - complete with the huge Altec speakers. I don't know why he had never told me before, but now he is looking to sell the system to a collector. I hope I can get my hands on it to keep a piece of the history. Does anyone know how it may be worth? Just in case I have to compete with a collector to buy it from my Dad? 745503@blogcritics.org Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:20:29 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/10/07/235203.php#comment-593418 In reading these submissions, I couldn't help but think of my Saturday mornings spent at Tower Records after payday. I spent a lot of money those days in Tower. I'm old enough to remember the days of the LP's. I remember the average price for an LP, in the early 80's, was about $10. I can remember Tower being hesitant to go full on into CDs when they first came out. I remember CDs first came out in those long waste of cardboard packages. Tower didn't have the racks that could accommodate CDs, so they just put them next to the LPs. Tower's costs for the CDs were so outrages, that I didn't get into CDs right off the bat. I finally took in the CD format but, Tower really never lowered their prices. You would have an occasional AC\DC Cd for about $10 but, on the average, Tower's prices were too pricey for me. This was about 1989. I remember thinking that it would not be a big surprise if Tower Records went out of business. I remember abandoning Tower for the used cd stores. I would still go there to browse but, I knew I could find what I was looking for somewhere else. Today, I've adapted to the ways of the internet, and it doesn't bother me. I think Tower Records, for me, was a good place to browse. I don't buy much music anymore, I have everything I would want. Tower Records gave me a good place to pass the time and it gave me ideas of what I would want to buy. I'm fine with their demise but, RIP anyways. 593418@blogcritics.org Tue, 22 May 2007 17:12:51 EDT