Tower Records To Be Liquidated starting 10/7

[bellenseb]

pop/rock was 70% off today in Alexandria. There is literally almost nothing left. I picked up:
 
 Volebeats
 Stina Nordenstam ($2!)
 Steve Wynn
 Long Winters
 Solex
 
 They have like 80 copies of the last Futureheads album...

[bellenseb]

Also, all locations have plenty of copies of the recent TV-musician crossovers (John Corbett, Peter Gallagher, Peter Gammons (!)) Great gag stocking stuffers!

[kosmo vinyl]

ok the only thing i missed about the forum taking a spa day was if there were any updates on discounts...
 
 so spill

[terry]

Yesterday at Penn. Ave. cds were 60% off; dvds 50%. Plus a bunch of stuff in the dollar bins.
 
 I managed to get two dvds:
 
 Hawkwind: Love in Space
 Cut Shorts: Short Films of David Markey
 
 I also got a Quasi cd for $3 and a Joe "King" Carrasco for a buck.
 
 Very few toys left (50% off). But I did end up buying "The Land of Misfit Toys" set.

[Relaxer]

Just returned from Foggy Bottom/Penn Tower and rock cds are at 70% off now. The place was packed, but I was pretty surprised at how much was still there. I saw several of the Cure double-disc reissues, which I would've picked up but I have the original albums and am happy with them.
 
 So picked up
 Radio 4 - Enemies Like This
 The Horror The Horror
 Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
 New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us...
 Grandaddy - Fambly Cat
 Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
 Super Furries - Love Kraft
 The Rakes
 The 22-20s
 
 I could've got about five more, but I've bought so many discs in the last month that I'm getting some heat at home, no matter how cheap they are.
 
 The staff are getting real punchy. Dudes are flying through crowded aisles pushing empty CD racks, knocking people around. My check-out guy couldn't have been a bigger cock. "Who are all these bands supposed to be?" he dicked.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

They all seem to be up to 70%.
 
 I wonder if it will go to 80% or more before the end?

[Sage 703]

so i have to say, i feel like there is more left at Tower than people are finding.
 
 my haul today - grand total of $120 spent.  the list:
 
 
 Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat
 The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out
 Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
 The Sounds - Dying to Say This To You
 Field Music - s/t (Import)
 Field Music - Write Your Own History (Import)
 Electric Eel Shock - Go USA!
 The Doors - Live in Philadelphia '70
 Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of a Beast
 Mojave Three - Puzzles Like You
 The Delgados - The Complete BBC Peel Sessions
 Mates of State - Our Constant Concern
 Smoosh - Free to Stay
 Nethers - In Fields We Will Lie
 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
 Aloha - Some Echoes
 Sophie & Ives - Untie Me
 Longwave - The Strangest Things
 No Doubt - Rock Steady
 Lamb of God - Killadelphia
 Beck - Guerolito
 Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
 Clearlake - Cedars
 V/A - Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads
 
 
 I still plan on going back to buy the new Phoenix, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, The Knife, some DFA remix comps, and some miscellaneous other stuff.  If you're willing to look, there is plenty to be found.

[beetsnotbeats]

I spent nearly $75 @ Rockville today:
 
 Masonna - Frequency L.S.D.
 John Zorn - Moonchild
 Tim Hecker - Mirages
 The Red Krayola - Introduction
 Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: Best Of
 Romeo Void - Benefactor/Never Say Never
 OMD - Organisation
 Ministry - Psalm 69
 Boris - Pink
 Noxagt- s/t
 Can - s/t
 Henry Cow - Western Culture
 Cardinal -s/t (reissue w/ bonus tracks)
 Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic (DVD/CD)
 Magazine - Real Life/Secondhand Daylight (two-fer)
 
 One thing I found funny was that I had read just a couple of days ago that the Cardinal disc had been reissued. Digging through the racks I came across Cardinal but was disappointed that it was the old one. Finding the reissue version a few cds later was a real surprise.

[kosmo vinyl]

I agree there is plenty to choose from, it's just with a couple early expensive import buying sprees, i'm trying to hold off for a bigger discount before spend lots of time going through the racks. if i don't get whatever, my typical zen approach to such things.
 
 also, watch out for those 5 discs for $4 dollars bins... there were a couple "misfiled" discs in there that didn't come up with the special pricing which was annoying.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Haha tell me about it. My wife will be so glad when Tower is finally closed. At least the stuff I've bought so far has been stuff she likes.
 
 

Originally posted by Relaxer:
 
 
 I could've got about five more, but I've bought so many discs in the last month that I'm getting some heat at home, no matter how cheap they are.
 
 

[bellenseb]

Tower Alexandria is closing on Sunday. Pretty well cleaned out, but here's some of what's left at 70% off:
 
 Black Heart Procession
 Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville
 Mew
 Long Winters
 Jim Noir
 Jamie Callum
 The Streets
 Lots of obscure Drag City stuff
 Tindersticks
 Slowdive (30 copies of Slouvlaki!)
 Pony Up
 Rachel Goswell
 Huskey Rescue
 Sadies double live album
 Bob Mould's latest
 Danielson

[Jaguar]

Slowdive (30 copies of Slouvlaki!)
 
 Did you notice if it's the recent remastered version or the reissue of the original?
 
 Not worth the gas for me to travel all that way for it but I'd scoop up at least one copy if it's the remastered. Damn. Either way, a must have for anyone who has the slightest interest in anything remotely Shoegaze. Pure beauty.
 
 The Rachel Goswell is good too if you like the female British modern Folk sound. Personally, I love the album but realize it's not for all. Already have my copy though.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Thanks for the update. I see a couple of things there I'm interested in.
 
 I'm going to be a dork and use my vacation day tomorrow and hit all of the suburban locations.
 
 

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  Tower Alexandria is closing on Sunday. Pretty well cleaned out, but here's some of what's left at 70% off:
 
 Black Heart Procession
 Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville
 Mew
 Long Winters
 Jim Noir
 Jamie Callum
 The Streets
 Lots of obscure Drag City stuff
 Tindersticks
 Slowdive (30 copies of Slouvlaki!)
 Pony Up
 Rachel Goswell
 Huskey Rescue
 Sadies double live album
 Bob Mould's latest
 Danielson

[bellenseb]

I forgot, they also have a copy of Chad VanGaalen's first album, which is exellent.

[ggw]

If anyone happens to see a white guy wearing jeans, Campers, and a solid earth-tone shirt, in a local Tower Records tomorrow, be sure to say "hi" to Rhett.
 
 

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
  Thanks for the update. I see a couple of things there I'm interested in.
 
 I'm going to be a dork and use my vacation day tomorrow and hit all of the suburban locations.
 
   

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  Tower Alexandria is closing on Sunday. Pretty well cleaned out, but here's some of what's left at 70% off:
 
 Black Heart Procession
 Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville
 Mew
 Long Winters
 Jim Noir
 Jamie Callum
 The Streets
 Lots of obscure Drag City stuff
 Tindersticks
 Slowdive (30 copies of Slouvlaki!)
 Pony Up
 Rachel Goswell
 Huskey Rescue
 Sadies double live album
 Bob Mould's latest
 Danielson

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