Tower Records: Documentary

Documentary about the Rise and Fall of Tower Records (+Video)

Mark Frauenfelder | September 6, 2015

I loved Tower Records. Not for the records (though I bought a lot of them there), but for the tremendous book and zine section. That's where I discovered Re/Search books and a tons of great obscure periodicals. It pains me whenever I see the crappy boring businesses that now occupy the former Tower Records store locations in Los Angeles.

Tower Records closes its last 89 stores. Source: http://www.technologizer.com/2011/02/17/borders-bankruptcy/

<more at http://boingboing.net/2015/09/06/documentary-about-the-rise-and.html; related links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3272570/ (All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records) and http://slippedisc.com/2015/08/an-account-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-classical-records/ (An Account of the Decline and Fall of Classical Records. August 7, 2015); further: http://www.technologizer.com/2011/02/17/borders-bankruptcy/ (The Decline and Fall of Physical Media Retailing: A Timeline. February 17, 2011)>