Tower Records online experience

Discussion in 'Marketplace Discussions' started by Vagante, Sep 26, 2021.

  1. Vagante

    Vagante Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Location:
    St augustine
    I searched the subject but only found memories of old times. (I had them too) Anyone have experience with the new Tower records? New Tower have any connection to the Solomon family?
     
  2. MARTHY

    MARTHY Forum Resident

    I pre-ordered their exclusive Counting Crows: Butter Miracle Suite One (butter yellow vinyl) on April 30; shipped upon release in decent packaging. No problems whatsoever. Would order from them again.
     
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  3. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

    Location:
    Cambridge, MA
    No experience. Tower Records in the US is nothing but a brand name now, with no relationship at all to the original Tower.
     
  4. drpep

    drpep Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day

    Location:
    Corning, New York
    Can’t remember what I purchased, it was a cd not vinyl, but it arrived within a week of ordering and it was packaged well.
     
  5. Chee

    Chee Forum Resident

    Location:
    Denver
    I wanna go back to Tower Greenwich Village 1983 and buy records and swag, 2021 sucks.
     
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  6. Oscar Calero

    Oscar Calero Member

    Location:
    USA
    I used to love Tower Records outlet in New York city a lot rare stuff and imports for half the price
     
  7. Myke

    Myke Trying Not To Spook The Horse

  8. DigMyGroove

    DigMyGroove Forum Resident

    For all you Tower Records fans out there I thought you might enjoy seeing the original Sunset Strip location with the store signage restored for an upcoming streaming mini-series on L.A. icon Angelyne this past October. A project I worked on the 2012 film Rock of Ages recreated the storefront in Miami where the L.A. set story was filmed. I don't recall seeing Tower in a film or TV project since then. This was nice to see but also very sad, as the world of retail music has changed so much since Tower Records locations roamed the earth.

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  9. chazz101s

    chazz101s Forum Resident

    Your photos (which didn't translate to the website thread but were in the email I received) remind me of the SFO Tower, near North Beach.

    Thx for that!
     
  10. DigMyGroove

    DigMyGroove Forum Resident

    The photos are up, you may have been viewing the site exactly at the moment I was re-doing their links. So glad you enjoyed them!
     
  11. My Echo My Shadow And Me

    My Echo My Shadow And Me Forum Resident

    Location:
    Germany
    Does anybody have photos of the Sunset Tower Records store from 1992, with a blow-up of the Jesus & Mary Chain's "Honey's Dead" in a one of the shop windows? The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
     
  12. belyin

    belyin Valid Where Prohibited

    Location:
    New Orleans, LA
    I have fond memories of their New Orleans store and antipathetic ones too. Fond because they hired genuine music lovers (quite a few of them friends) and gave them surprising autonomy in ordering in their areas of interst. And just as with music, their magazine section was wide ranging and open to independent voices. It is where I was introduced to Sound Practices and Listener magazines among other vices.

    Antipathetic because of the larcenous workings of the bankruptcy process. When they declared, "their" inventory was sold to a liquidator—but for local New Orleans artists (a substantial part of their business in the French Quarter) this inventory didn't belong to Tower but to the local musicians or labels who had their music at Tower on consignment. Thousands of dollars of "product" were taken from the community.

    Bandleader D.J. Davis "stole" all of his cd's he could find from the store during the going out of business sale and dared security to call the cops—a scene reenacted in the premier episode of the Tremé TV show.

    Since I produced less popular modern jazz records, I didn't lose too much, but the bankruptcy had the ripple effect of undermining the last remaining independent distributors as for most Tower was their biggest customer. My releases were carried by NorthCountry, about the only national distributor for independent or self-produced creative jazz, and they were owed enough by Tower that they were effectively forced out of business.
     
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