Tower Records victim of iPod era

[Wild_Heart03]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

have a disc in my hand over an iPod (Nothing against an iPod, but considering the amount of music I have there will never be an iPod with enough storage to hold every single release I own). Call me old fashioned, but I want nice packaging/bonus disc/bonus DVD with a new album release instead of just a digital download.

I still purchase music in stores, be it new releases or used releases. Just the excitement of finding a rare release in the used bins is more my style than any digital download could give me.

My sentiments exactly. There's just something so fulfilling about going into a music store and finding that CD single you've been looking around for forever, or getting that new CD that you've been wanting to hear all day. Even though I rip the CD right to my iPod right when I get home, I still prefer to have it.

[PsychCat]

Tower is more a "victim" of their own greed. One thing you could pretty much depend on with them is that everything would be priced high and would stay that way. It's not a matter of Tower being a victim of others but more the cause of the success of the others.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by PsychCat

One thing you could pretty much depend on with them is that everything would be priced high and would stay that way.

Was it just Tower, though? I remember Wherehouse Music's CDs being really high, too. Like, $18, $19. That was another reason I stopped shopping there after we got Internet access.