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The blogger behind fathom harvill apparently shares two of our biggest obsessions: Glenn Danzig and Tower Records. A recent trip to a Tower in Mountain View, Calif., yielded not only this documentary-style evidence that Danzig’s albums are in strong supply, but also a eulogy for the dying record-store chain:
I’ll be sorry to see Tower close, though this last death throe period is really odd. Sad to say but cd-buying as a social activity is almost extinct around here. Maybe it is everywhere. I don’t consider the cd section of Target (or of Borders for that matter) to be nearly a replacement for a real music store…
I know I sound like a washed-up gen-x-er when I say it but I miss having a real true locally owned record store around, the pretentious kind where they quietly judge you based on what you are buying, instead of just swiping the cd across the laser after your dog food and before your shampoo.
The big question remains, though. How the hell, even at 50% off, are they ever going to move all those Danzig cds?
Oh, don’t worry. We know a certain Idolator commenter who’ll be jetting over to Mountain View this afternoon, two weenor (sp?) dogs in tow.
Tower (of Danzig) [Fathom Harvill]
Gen-xer? Danzig is definitely old enough to be a Baby Boomer. An eeeeevviilll Baby Boomer.
Don’t most college towns and not-tiny cities have locally-owned new-and-used we-sneer-at-your-taste record stores anymore? I can think of three in the smallish college town where I work (and grew up, there were admittedly lots more when I was a kid), and countless bazillions in the large city where I live, at least one decent shop in each hipster neighborhood. I can’t remember the last time I bought music in a chain store.
Not only that — TONS of Samhain reissues available too at my local one. Oddly enough, no Misfits at all. Not even the post-Glenn ones.
Not Shown:
35 units of the “Best of ICP” boxset w/ limited-edition, temporary Juggalo tattoos.
For the Kids.