Tower Records To Be Liquidated starting 10/7

Did you get any markdown porn?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Went to the Rockville Tower after work… If you are looking for a Six Degree's comp you in luck as they have hundreds of them for a couple bucks.

I find some interesting things in the preview section for three bucks including the DVD audio version of Refused "The Shape of Things to Come" which I'll be a few of you would like to crank up…

As usually those expensive imports ended up in my stack including a $40 Bluetones singles collection marked down to $16, the excellent new Roddy Frame solo album and the Mystery Jets.

Still about a dozen or so things worth getting in the Pop/Rock sections that I may go back to pickup when the percentage goes up again, which maybe pretty soon as the employee said he thinks the store will be closed around the 15th.

Anybody know what the % off is as of today, Saturday, on rock cd's?

Can someone please post when it hits 70% and 80%?

I stopped in Fairfax yesterday… I'm really building my Sonic Youth collection at a good price, got Rather Ripped for like 6 bucks. I heard someone in the store say the last day will be 12/22… That could just be Fairfax, dunno bout the others.

i got 'the holy bible' by the manic street preachers for fifteen dollars. and 'bitter tea' by the fiery furnaces for six dollars.

At the Tower in Rockville Rap/Hip Hop Cds are $1.50. The cds are very picked thru, but i got a copy of the new Mr. Lif album Mo Mega (which is one of my favorite albums from this year).

Just got back from the Tower near Tyson's Corner. It is done. I spent 35 minutes browsing in there and all I could find that was worth getting was "The World of Arthur Russell." It was $10–marked down from $26. Nice. Signs say last 10 days.

If you are looking for DVDs you'd better want "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," or the 2nd and 3rd seasons of "Newlyweds."

I went to the tower in Annandale off of little river turnpike today and got a few CD's.
I got a Bowie double disk import, The Streets, Abdel Wright, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise live double disk, and the newest citizen cope album.
Everything at 70 percent off so my total price was 25 bucks. They said the store will be closing their doors for good next Sunday.

Originally posted by Che:
I went to the tower in Annandale off of little river turnpike today and got a few CD's.
I got a Bowie double disk import, The Streets, Abdel Wright, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise live double disk, and the newest citizen cope album.
Everything at 70 percent off so my total price was 25 bucks. They said the store will be closing their doors for good next Sunday.

Did they have many action figures left?

Mr Surly,
I did not know your had a gay action figure fetish.

Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
Did you get any markdown porn?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Went to the Rockville Tower after work… If you are looking for a Six Degree's comp you in luck as they have hundreds of them for a couple bucks.

I find some interesting things in the preview section for three bucks including the DVD audio version of Refused "The Shape of Things to Come" which I'll be a few of you would like to crank up…

As usually those expensive imports ended up in my stack including a $40 Bluetones singles collection marked down to $16, the excellent new Roddy Frame solo album and the Mystery Jets.

Still about a dozen or so things worth getting in the Pop/Rock sections that I may go back to pickup when the percentage goes up again, which maybe pretty soon as the employee said he thinks the store will be closed around the 15th.

Originally posted by aglanixp:
Mr Surly,
I did not know your had a gay action figure fetish.

Are there any other kind?

Didn't see a single action figure in there.
They did have a lot of Clay Aiken Cd's though.

i want to be there on the last day at the last hour.

well having visited both the tysons corner and rockville location it's not hard to see why they are going under…

both stores still have a huge stock of import singles, many of the here today gone tomorrow type acts. if i had the patience i'd go through them…

they had three copies at both stores of a recent limited edition and expensive ($40) singles collection by the Bluetones, as welk as the regular version of it. a UK band which released one CD here in 1996 and aren't exacting burning up the charts in UK. tis not one of the records many people would casually wander into a store and buy. same goes for the Roddy Frame, Do Me Bad Things, and the numerous expensive trance/house/etc/etc comps on offer.

seems to me inventory control was a bit of a problem…

needless to say Tysons Corner had a lot of what Rockville has left and still lots of titles i'll wait until the big discount to buy… they did have a nice selection of RPM records comps at TC. i'll be the first to admit much of the stuff i've gotten will still be there at the higher discounts and should have taken the risk and hold off on getting them.

The Fairfax store has 13 copies of Robbie Fulks' most recent Yep Roc album Georgia Hard. While it is a great album, I don't see how some buyer could have thunk they would have sold that many.

any ideas on when cds are going to be 70+% off?

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
well having visited both the tysons corner and rockville location it's not hard to see why they are going under…

both stores still have a huge stock of import singles, many of the here today gone tomorrow type acts. if i had the patience i'd go through them…

they had three copies at both stores of a recent limited edition and expensive ($40) singles collection by the Bluetones, as welk as the regular version of it. a UK band which released one CD here in 1996 and aren't exacting burning up the charts in UK. tis not one of the records many people would casually wander into a store and buy. same goes for the Roddy Frame, Do Me Bad Things, and the numerous expensive trance/house/etc/etc comps on offer.

seems to me inventory control was a bit of a problem…

The stock you are now seeing in the above stores is not representative of what was ordered originally. In the case of the Tysons store (and Rockville), we received HUGE shipments from Tower and Bayside's warehouse in CA. After all that, we began getting shipments of ENTIRE STORES that were closing earlier than we are.

So, add all the crap from those stores to the crap in ours….and you get a lot of crap.

All this has nothing do do with why Tower is going out of business, it's a result of going out of business.

But you are aware that the stores were filled with overpriced crap even when they were in business, right?

And who picks the shitty music that has been playing over the PA systems during the going out of business sales?

Originally posted by CloverOverDover:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
well having visited both the tysons corner and rockville location it's not hard to see why they are going under…

both stores still have a huge stock of import singles, many of the here today gone tomorrow type acts. if i had the patience i'd go through them…

they had three copies at both stores of a recent limited edition and expensive ($40) singles collection by the Bluetones, as welk as the regular version of it. a UK band which released one CD here in 1996 and aren't exacting burning up the charts in UK. tis not one of the records many people would casually wander into a store and buy. same goes for the Roddy Frame, Do Me Bad Things, and the numerous expensive trance/house/etc/etc comps on offer.

seems to me inventory control was a bit of a problem…

The stock you are now seeing in the above stores is not representative of what was ordered originally. In the case of the Tysons store (and Rockville), we received HUGE shipments from Tower and Bayside's warehouse in CA. After all that, we began getting shipments of ENTIRE STORES that were closing earlier than we are.

So, add all the crap from those stores to the crap in ours….and you get a lot of crap.

All this has nothing do do with why Tower is going out of business, it's a result of going out of business.

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
But you are aware that the stores were filled with overpriced crap even when they were in business, right?

And who picks the shitty music that has been playing over the PA systems during the going out of business sales?

Yes, I'm aware of that.

Tower didn't set the wholesale prices, and couldn't afford to sell product below or close to those prices. Talk to the distribution and labels about pricing.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. I bet everything you've scavenged over the past few months would be deemed crap by plenty of others.

As for the music playing in the stores, it depends on who's working and their mood at the time.

I was in both the Fairfax & Tysons Towers today. I was very disappointed to find the toy sections lacking. The book sections were picked thru, as well. So as not to waste the entire trip I stocked up on more porn.

what happens to the sh*t they do not sell? dumpster? that would be the best price. dumpster diving.