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Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      Non-Film Score Discussion: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 7:41 AM     By:   Recordman   (Member) Opens Oct 16 Looks interesting to me, anyway.Spent a lot of time in these: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3272570/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2239023922&pf_rd_r=1JTSHTKNYSJGRBZQXVM0&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_otw_t6    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 12:19 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) I remember the store at Piccadilly Circus in London. Some great film score were picked up there, including quite a few Japanese LPs. It always paid off to look through the overstock boxes, as I found the prices were never the same.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 12:36 PM     By:   Rameau   (Member) I remember the store at Piccadilly Circus in London. Some great film score were picked up there, including quite a few Japanese LPs. It always paid off to look through the overstock boxes, as I found the prices were never the same. Yeah, I bought some great stuff there, lovely store, they were really good for imports, Japanese, Italian & American. A lot of their staff were American, I wonder if they had a program where their US staff could go over to the UK to work in their stores.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 12:40 PM     By:   Thomas   (Member) I thought about the one in Piccadilly myself when I seen this thread. Used to call every time I visited London years ago. Got a lot of import stuff nowhere else had. There was also a very good one in Dublin.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 12:44 PM     By:   Ado   (Member) Apparently the management at the top of the organization was pretty inept. One of the key mistakes was a refusal to sell used cd's. That is not much of a business anymore. But if Tower had been willing to sell used it would have delayed the closures by a decade probably. I loved my Tower in Austin, it was a fantastically stocked and large store. classical music in a separate room upstairs, with glass doors.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 12:45 PM     By:   Rameau   (Member) I thought about the one in Piccadilly myself when I seen this thread. Used to call every time I visited London years ago. Got a lot of import stuff nowhere else had. There was also a very good one in Dublin. Yeah, I visited the one in Dublin. They had quite a few in London, I remember stores in Camden, Bayswater & Kensington High Street, but it was the big one in Piccadilly where you could spend a couple of hours looking around.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 8:16 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) I remember the store at Piccadilly Circus in London. Some great film score were picked up there, including quite a few Japanese LPs. It always paid off to look through the overstock boxes, as I found the prices were never the same. Yeah, I bought some great stuff there, lovely store, they were really good for imports, Japanese, Italian & American. A lot of their staff were American, I wonder if they had a program where their US staff could go over to the UK to work in their stores. Yes, I believe they had a revolving door policy.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 11:32 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) Double post.    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 11:33 PM     By:   riotengine   (Member) I worked for Tower as a store artist at the Concord, CA store for three years. I have very mixed feelings about the documentary. Greg Espinoza    Posted:   Oct 13, 2015 - 11:48 PM     By:   jenkwombat   (Member) Used to love their soundtrack section. That was where I picked up all the Bond reissues --- they were also the only place I know of that was carrying them all on the release date, and for a good price. I really miss Tower.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2015 - 5:06 AM     By:   CindyLover   (Member) I loved Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus - got plenty of good stuff there (plus they had excellent import media, including LA Weekly). Much missed.    Posted:   Oct 18, 2015 - 7:12 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) I have fond memories of waiting on that after-midnight new release line, never a very long line, and being the only one there wanting to get the new John Williams soundtrack being released the following day.    Posted:   Oct 18, 2015 - 11:27 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) A place where I spent countless hours and mucho money, building my Soundtrack LP Collection! I loved TOWER! Would like to see this documentary.    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 7:12 AM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) I remember the store at Piccadilly Circus in London. Some great film score were picked up there, including quite a few Japanese LPs. It always paid off to look through the overstock boxes, as I found the prices were never the same. Ah yes, that was one of our regular haunts on a Saturday, wasn't it? I think we'd often start there because the tube station fed straight into Tower, then head off towards Cheapo Cheapo, 58 Dean Street and then Virgin on Oxford Street.    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 11:39 AM     By:   CindyLover   (Member) And now they're all gone!    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 12:33 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) Ah yes, that was one of our regular haunts on a Saturday, wasn't it? I think we'd often start there because the tube station fed straight into Tower, then head off towards Cheapo Cheapo, 58 Dean Street and then Virgin on Oxford Street. Remember Mr Happy at Cheapo, Cheapo?    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 1:49 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Ah yes, that was one of our regular haunts on a Saturday, wasn't it? I think we'd often start there because the tube station fed straight into Tower, then head off towards Cheapo Cheapo, 58 Dean Street and then Virgin on Oxford Street. Remember Mr Happy at Cheapo, Cheapo? Oh yes, totally grumpy even if you bought something, but lo betide if you didn't!!!    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 2:00 PM     By:   Rameau   (Member) Ah yes, that was one of our regular haunts on a Saturday, wasn't it? I think we'd often start there because the tube station fed straight into Tower, then head off towards Cheapo Cheapo, 58 Dean Street and then Virgin on Oxford Street. Remember Mr Happy at Cheapo, Cheapo? God that was a grubby store, I don't think it had been cleaned...ever! I got some great LP's there in the seventies, but I never had much luck with CD's in there. ...& then 'round the corner to Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed in St Anne's Court, what a great science fiction bookshop!    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 2:29 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) God that was a grubby store, I don't think it had been cleaned...ever! I got some great LP's there in the seventies, but I never had much luck with CD's in there. ...& then 'round the corner to Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed in St Anne's Court, what a great science fiction bookshop! I always remembered they had endless copies of Young Sherlock, Biggles and William Tell for £1.99 As for CDs, I found plenty at Mr CD and Reckless Records. There was also a half decent Reckless Records in Camden Town.    Posted:   Oct 19, 2015 - 5:56 PM     By:   Niall from Ireland   (Member) The Tower Records store in Dublin is still there! They moved from Wicklow Street earlier this summer to a new location at 7 Dawson Street. I was in there a few months ago and it's a great store with a huge new vinyl section upstairs! However, the soundtrack section is not as good as it was back in the early 90s, what a wonderful selection they had back then. http://www.towerrecords.ie/     Non-Film Score Discussion: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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