Apparently Tower is going to be liquidated, anyone know if and when the merchandise will be sold off cheaply?

I haven't been to a Tower Records since the 70s. Are there still stores around here?

there's one in Fairfax Towne Centre, next to the movie theatre.

...remember the old Kemp Mill Records anyone??

On the topic posted, the liquidation is probably like most others - another complany buys all the assets and keeps the good stuff (moving it to another store) and brings in junk to sell out of the one going out of business...

Are there still stores around here?

There's one in Tysons Corner; their music selection has sucked for the past 10 years, but they do have an impressive video section. I'll have to swing by there later today to see if they're advertising a going-out-of-business sale.

ffxn8v Wrote:
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> ...remember the old Kemp Mill Records anyone??

yes, yes i do. oh cassette tapes... it brings back memories.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

IT'S EXITING IT'S INCREDIBILE, 9.99 ALL THE TIME, AND ONLY AT KEMP MILL RECORDS!!

(hammer striking record player as video)

If anyone remembers the commercials.

Bought the first Van Halen album at a Kemp Mill in Laurel, circa 1978. I think they sold a little herb paraphernalia as well...

There's also Tower locations in Foggy Bottom, Landmark, and I wanna say rockville but not sure.

Kemp Mill was a well kept secret for years to buy tickets to concerts. the lines were not bad at all.

I've gotten over going to Travel Agencies to book trips. I'll get over going to record stores to buy music.

For real, buying music in a store is bullshit when amazon can sell you that shit for less even with next-day shipping.

Tower did have one thing I liked, a bigger selection of dvd's. Lots of obscure titles, and many more tv shows on dvd. If I needed some same-night entertainment that just cannot be downloaded, I could usually find it there. Best Buy and Circuit City don't even try, and the other stores like FYE or whatever are so goddamned overpriced with NO selection. Competition in this area just took a big hit in that area, so I better get used to planning ahead for dvd purchases.

Now, once Hollywood gets over itself and starts making digital downloads of movies an everyday thing where you can get damned near every title, I'll forget Tower ever existed.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/08/2006 08:02PM by RESton Peace.

The Tower Records in Tysons always had stupid inventory problems. I've been in there few times on Tuesday morning ready to pick a new release, only to find it NOT on the shelf. This is stuff that they advertise on their big "white board", and it's not even available. The last time it happened to me, the "sales associate" told me that they had it in the backroom but haven't put it on the shelf yet, and told me to come back in a few days- yeah right. Heck of a way to run a music store! At least Best Buy or Circuit City trains their staff to put the new inventory out on the shelves so people can buy it.

I'm glad that place is going under. The only cool record stores in B'more anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if almost all music/video stores go bye bye within the next 10 years. Online video/music is here to stay. It's convenient, fast, and cheap. Now if Hollywood could only make good movies maybe they would have a solid business.

Yeah I remember Kemp Mill Records - there used to be one in Fair City Mall back in the early 90s next to Erols. Anyone remember Waxie Maxies? -§

yes, does remembering that win me a prize?

waxie's and kemp mill were actually pretty superfluous. Kemp Mill had locations in McNair Farms and Greenbrier, Waxie's was in Worldgate and I forget the other local spot I used to hit that they occupied.

I like the Tower in DC next to GWU. The selection point is a good one because they had lots of the ambient/darkwave stuff I like.

Amazing the number of businesses mentioned in this thread that don't exist anymore. Errol's,Kemp mill. We could add Woodies & Montgomery wards. I think there is a lesson here: LISTEN TO YOU CUSTOMERS and meet their needs or get eliminated.Of course that would MAKE MY DAY!

I am still waiting for the comeback of Waxie Maxies!!!!

I remember everyone would get all freaked out about HFStival tix and camp out in front of Tower all night to scoop them up. And typically, about 15 minutes after they went on sale HFS would announce that all the tickets had been sold and how it was some historic feat that they'd sold out out the HFStival in 15 minutes blah blah blah.

The truth of the matter was that Tower (and probably a bunch of other places) just printed them all out at once to move the lines a long faster. So on the Ticketmaster computer it would say all the tix had been printed...but that didn't mean they were necessarily sold. You could still get HFStival tix at the FTC Tower several hours after the sold out announcement had been made.

...which I did several times... that place just kicked ass for that.

I did the same thing. Remember when the HFStival was awesome & not a sea of high school kids?

The Only Good Thing about Tower records, be it on FX, DC near GWU or Tysons corner were the ALterna Babes behind the counters. Sure there were some record store straight out of High Fidelity as well but some hotties with pink hair, or fishnet stockings or straight outta suicidegirls.com lookin hotties.

ferfux Wrote:
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> The Only Good Thing about Tower records, be it on
> FX, DC near GWU or Tysons corner were the ALterna
> Babes behind the counters. Sure there were some
> record store straight out of High Fidelity as well
> but some hotties with pink hair, or fishnet
> stockings or straight outta suicidegirls.com
> lookin hotties.


yes I do have many memories of that which you speak of

FWIW, I stopped by the Tysons location this evening, and there's a 15% sale on everything in the store. "NOTHING HELD BACK!" is what the big sign on the window boasts; unfortunately I chickened out when I thought about testing out their exact meaning of that... Anyway, looks like most of the stock is still on the shelves so you might be able to find some good deals, that store has the biggest video section I've seen in any Tower I've been in. I'm guessing the stuff will be marked down even more in weeks to come.

ferfux Wrote:
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> The Only Good Thing about Tower records, be it on
> FX, DC near GWU or Tysons corner were the ALterna
> Babes behind the counters. Sure there were some
> record store straight out of High Fidelity as well
> but some hotties with pink hair, or fishnet
> stockings or straight outta suicidegirls.com
> lookin hotties.

This is quite true.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> FWIW, I stopped by the Tysons location this
> evening, and there's a 15% sale on everything in
> the store.

Haven't been to Tower Records for almost 15 years. I went in just to check it
out before they are closed forever.

The "sale" is no sale at all. I found about a dozen or so CDs and DVDs that
I was planning to buy anyway. Even with the sale, Tower's prices are still
10% to 20% more that what I would have paid on Amazon.com.... and people wonder
why Tower Records is going out of business.... :(

But I do with an earlier post... some of the chicks workikng there were hot.
At least back then.... :)

I found a couple of Frank Zappa CDs at the Landmark store for 6 bucks.
Zoot Allures and Hot Rats.
The torture never stops.

All of Tower's remaining inventory will be on eBay and Overstock.com in a few weeks. I would just wait and order online.

tower records was awesome

Fairfax MF---er Wrote:
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> All of Tower's remaining inventory will be on eBay
> and Overstock.com in a few weeks. I would just
> wait and order online.

I'm still waiting. Tell me when to start bidding.

Wish I could get an old Peguin Feather t shirt, back in the day my mom would have shit if I had shown up at home wearing one of those.

Never bought a record there Wrote:
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> Wish I could get an old Peguin Feather t shirt,
> back in the day my mom would have shit if I had
> shown up at home wearing one of those.

Not a vintage shirt but how about a freshly made one. And no.....I'm not the seller nor do I know the seller.

http://www.ecrater.com/p/13969724/penguin-feather-records-vintage-yellow-t?gps=1