At least the jazz part of the Tower records on Wabash in Chicago was staffed with highly informed, very knowledgeable people, and I do miss it. They also had a really goo genuine world music selection that the staff could guide one around. Amazon also took out The Crow's Nest, a big and very good indy CD store associated with De Paul. It is now a Barnes and Nobles Books, not an improvement. But there was more associated with that that I don't know about. De Paul overhauled the whole retail part of that building.
--- Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
>
> > [any of you New Yorkers lament the loss of Tower
> Records?]
>
> I'm not, and I worked there (the 4th and Broadway
> store). Actually,
> it's probably *because* I worked there that I don't
> lament it. I
> still can't believe I managed to pay rent in
> Manhattan on what they
> paid me (ok, so it was almost 15 years ago, and I
> was sharing a
> rent-stabilised two bedroom with three other people,
> but even so, the
> wages were ridiculous).
>
> > From now on, no American city will have a large
> record
> > store. And where New York leads, the rest of the
> world will surely
> > follow. In Britain we still have similar outlets -
> mainly HMVs and
> > Virgin Megastores - but the clock is ticking for
> them. I doubt there
> > will still be a large record store in this country
> in a decade's time.
>
> There are still Towers in Dublin. They're
> independently owned. I
> hardly ever go into them, though. Anything I'm
> looking for I can find
> at one of the city's numerous independent shops,
> usually cheaper than
> Tower would have them. They're also just as easy to
> browse, often
> more willing to let you listen before you buy, the
> staff are generally
> more knowledgeable about music. I actually can't
> see why anyone,
> apart from someone whose tastes extend no further
> than what's in the
> charts, would rather visit a megastore than an
> indie.
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