Charlie wrote:
Does this mean I should try to spend that gift certificate soon?
Oh how things haven't changed… thrifty even 12 years ago.
Oh how things haven't changed… thrifty even 12 years ago.
Tower Records bankrupt?
Oh how things haven't changed… thrifty even 12 years ago.
Yada wrote:Charlie wrote:
Does this mean I should try to spend that gift certificate soon?
Oh how things haven't changed… thrifty even 12 years ago.
Charlie, of course the correct answer is hold onto that gift certificate until they mark everything down to 25 cents and there are still some treasures available…like Amy Winehouse's first album that your wife will play so much you'll get sick of (this was before Back to Black)…then use the gift cerificate…you'll get about 200 cd's for that $50 certificate, if I'm doing the math correctly.
Did anyone watch the Tom Hank's son's Tower Records documentary?
I think it played for about two weeks around here somewhere in NoVA.
Sometimes I feels like I'm alone in my nostalgia for Tower. It was accessible (literally), it felt like democratized cool (more cool than say, FYE which I have no understanding of why still exists), and going there felt like an adult extension of being allowed into the toy store as a kid; just pawing and eyeing the merchandise (not that I didn't buy what I could when I could).
I also appreciated that they had a community bulletin board and enjoyed snatching copies of Arthur.
Plus, my friend/high school crush worked at one.
I think it played for about two weeks around here somewhere in NoVA.
Sometimes I feels like I'm alone in my nostalgia for Tower. It was accessible (literally), it felt like democratized cool (more cool than say, FYE which I have no understanding of why still exists), and going there felt like an adult extension of being allowed into the toy store as a kid; just pawing and eyeing the merchandise (not that I didn't buy what I could when I could).
I also appreciated that they had a community bulletin board and enjoyed snatching copies of Arthur.
Plus, my friend/high school crush worked at one.
evilizac wrote:
Did anyone watch the Tom Hank's son's Tower Records documentary?
I think it played for about two weeks around here somewhere in NoVA.
Sometimes I feels like I'm alone in my nostalgia for Tower. It was accessible (literally), it felt like democratized cool (more cool than say, FYE which I have no understanding of why still exists), and going there felt like an adult extension of being allowed into the toy store as a kid; just pawing and eyeing the merchandise (not that I didn't buy what I could when I could).
I also appreciated that they had a community bulletin board and enjoyed snatching copies of Arthur.
Plus, my friend/high school crush worked at one.
I watched that doc on dvd and thought it was kind of "meh". YMMV.