Tower Records Out of Business

[MazerRackham]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
Yeah their prices were WAY more expensive than places like Best Buy... and the selection wasn't even that much better. Either way I buy all my stuff online anyhow...

Hey this was actually a post by ME but I hadn't noticed the login but thing 😀 I thought something was wrong b/c and scrolled to the bottom (at that time) and didn't see my post!! I'm going to check if anyone made posts as me while this was going on...

 

[CellarDoor]

Originally posted by: CarlKillerMiller

Originally posted by: madeupfacts
what does tower records do?

29.99 dvds, 18.99 cds

lol, exactly what i was going to say. Great selection, but not anything I couldn't get at Amazon for half the price. Their prices were absurd.

 

[ForumMaster]

well this was inevitable. be it from the iTunes music store or any other online music store, CD's are falling behind. not to mention the fact that Tower Records had really high prices.

 

[foghorn67]

Books as well were a complete ripoff.
For a while, they had an advantage around here on the periodical/magazine section. Tons of imported mags, specialty mags, etc.
But Borders and Barnes & Noble have negated that advantage.

 

[rhino56]

The disappearance of Tower's familiar red-and-yellow logo will leave a gaping hole in the landscape of American music retailing. Los Angeles-based Virgin Megastores, which operates 20 Virgin Megastores, now will become the most prominent deep-catalog retailer.

um not

 

[compuwiz1]

Just another example of how a staid management of crusty old farts, let a great company slide into the tar pits of dinosaurism. 🙁

Men / Women / People, who do not change with the times, are always doomed to failure.

That company was once well poised to be on the cutting edge of everything that is selling today. Too bad their management was so lacking in vision! Very sad........... 🙁

 

[j00fek]

would you pay 1695 for cd thats 1195 at another store? lol

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: jagec
Haha, I remember when a Tower Records store opened up in Ecuador. In a country where EVERYONE can buy pirated music on the streets for a dollar per CD, they were selling stuff for $20.

Meh, the Tower Records store in Bogota was effing packed when we went to it.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: EKKC
next up: Sam Goody, HMV, Blockbusters, Radio Shack

Sam Goody and Suncoast probably, dunno what HMV is, but I doubt Radioshack or Blockbuster will go under any time soon.

The thing about blockbuster is that I can go and pick whatever movie I feel like watching for whatever mood I'm in, rather than be at the mercy of what happened to arrive in the mail. That's why I scrapped my netflix and blockbuster online accounts.

I certainly hope radioshack doesn't go out. I always find myself running to them for some small nic-nak AV cable/plug converter.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: EKKC
next up: Sam Goody, HMV, Blockbusters, Radio Shack

Sam Goody and Suncoast probably, dunno what HMV is, but I doubt Radioshack or Blockbuster will go under any time soon.

The thing about blockbuster is that I can go and pick whatever movie I feel like watching for whatever mood I'm in, rather than be at the mercy of what happened to arrive in the mail. That's why I scrapped my netflix and blockbuster online accounts.

I certainly hope radioshack doesn't go out. I always find myself running to them for some small nic-nak AV cable/plug converter.

Sam Goody and Suncoast are owned and operated by Best Buy, IIRC.