The blogger behind
Under the Rock was kind enough to let us know about his $7.26 purchase of
A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle—the 2003 full-length by Jarvis Cocker's electroclashy collaboration with Mercury Prize nominee
Richard Hawley, Relaxed Muscle—at Tower's downtown Philadelphia outpost. Unfortunately, he's pretty sure that he got the last one in the store, but we figured this was just as good an excuse as any to post a couple of songs from the album, which, like the fine
Jarvis, was never released Stateside.
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As the fight over preserving Tower Records' former Sunset Strip outpost drags on, complete with controversy over where, exactly, one develops black-and-white photos in Los Angeles, one pundit has taken to the pages of the Los Angeles Times to decry the development that's been demolishing architectural structures all over the city. And what better way to make people realize the case for preserving historic buildings—no matter how ugly they might be!—than by doing what Rob Long did, and reworking Martin Niemöller's poem about the Nazis into an ode to urban preservation:
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Tower Records has been shuttering its stores, one by one, over the course of the past week; the final 10 U.S. stores in the chain will close for good today, bringing an end to the chain's presence in this country. Below are a few postmortems that have appeared in newspapers around the country.
Tower Records' long death march is entering its last week, but that hasn't stopped readers from sending their favorite deals—along with price info and MP3s—to 
