The madness continues...

60% off most stuff, plus a bunch of $1 CDs. Averages out to $5.22 (or $6.60 without the dollar stuff).

50 Foot Wave - 50 Foot Wave EP ($1)
Todd Barry - Medium Energy
Sam Bush - Laps In Seven ($1)
Gevorg Dabaghyan - Miniatures: Masterworks For Armenian Duduk ($1)
Frog Eyes - The Bloody Hand
Reeves Gabrels - Ulysses (Della Notte) ($1)
The Grip Weeds - The Sound Is In You
Glen Hall/Lee Ranaldo/William Hooker - Oasis Of Whispers
Head Of Femur - Hysterical Stars
Jennifer Gentle - Valende
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
The Kingsbury Manx - Let You Down
John Kongos - Kongos
La Rocca - The Truth
Daniel Lentz - On The Leopard Altar
Lichens - The Psychic Nature Of Being
The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed
Loose Fur - Born Again In The USA
Los Mocosos - American Me ($1)
Marbles - Expo
Midlake - Trials Of Van Occupanther
Mono - You Are There
Mosquitos - Mosquitos
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
The Real Tuesday Weld - The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid ($1)
Rocket From The Tombs - Rocket Redux
Roedelius - Aquarello
Various Artists - Courts, Kings And Troubadors: Medieval And Renaissance Music ($1)

Picked up a few more things for 60% off over the weekend:

Lucero - Rebels, Rogues, & Sworn Brothers
Behold... the Arctopus/Orthrelm - split
Daughters - Hell Songs
Noxagt - s/t

I have about 25 things to list, post 60% off sale blitz!

I picked out alot of hiphop there for $2 EACH!!!!! If you like some shitty stuff like TI, you can go pick'em up. But I mainly picked up alot of great Indie titles..

JRA

my latest Tower splurge
(c. 2006 my purchase thread)

444. (12/11) Alkaline Trio || s/t || CD $5.60
445. (12/11) Amazing Grace || Revival Times || CD $7.20
446. (12/11) Goldie Lookin Chain || Safe As Fook || CD $1.00
447. (12/11) Nina Gordon || Bleeding Heart Grafitti || CD $6.00
448. (12/11) Sound Team || Movie Monsters || CD $7.60
449. (12/11) Umbrellas || Illuminare || CD $6.40
450. (12/11) Vast || Turquoise & Crimson || CD $6.40
451. (12/11) The Coma's || A Def Needle || CD $6.40
452. (12/11) Dirty on Purpose || Halelujah Sirens || CD $5.60
453. (12/11) Bullet For My Valentine || The Poison || CD $6.00
454. (12/11) Post Stardom Depression || Prime Time... || CD $5.60
455. (12/11) Tesla || Bust a Nut || CD $2.80
456. (12/11) Kings of Leon || Youth & Young Manhood || CD $6.00
457. (12/11) The Paper Chase || ctrl-alt-delete-u || CD $4.80
458. (12/11) Screaming Trees || Carnivore || CD $6.80
459. (12/11) Amusement Parks on Fire || s/t || CD $6.40
460. (12/11) the Sadies || In Concert - Volume 1 || CD $8.00
461. (12/11) Vicious Rumors || Welcome to the Ball || CD $5.60
462. (12/11) Sophia || People Are Like Seasons || CD $8.80
463. (12/11) Bark Psychosis || Codename:Dustsucker || CD $6.40
464. (12/11) Mono || You Are There || CD $5.60
465. (12/11) Lit || Tripping the Light Fantastic || CD $4.80
466. (12/11) Bats & Mice || A Person Carrying... || CD $3.20
467. (12/11) Batman - The Movie || DVD $3.50
468. (12/11) Tales of Voodoo - Volume 2 || DVD $5.00

Lol- nice avatar.

Holy crap, you have purchased 468 cd's this year?

not technically....
468 came into my possession... If there was a '*' at the end of the CD/DVD, it means I got it for free via work, or I got it using 'trade-in' credit.

Everything's at least 70% off now. Most of the good stuff's gone, of course, but I'm doing my best to get the rest of it.

Today I got (for an average of $5 each):

Les Savy Fav - 3/5
Citay - s/t
Art Bears - Winter Songs
Zack Hill and Mick Barr - Shred Earthship
Witch - s/t

dumpster diver

Hardly. Those Citay, LSF, and Zach Hill/Mick Barr albums are good. Witch just seems kinda OK, though, and Art Bears is just weird.

how did i go from "they have NOTHING here" to $70?

how did i go from "they have NOTHING here" to $70?

I was thinking about going to amoeba and thought i probably ought to at least check tower first.

Pleasantly surprised that there was a few things worth picking up. Here's my haul:

Willie Nile "Streets of NY" $5.10
Edgar 'Jones' Jones "Soothing Music For Stray Cats" $5.70
This Heat S/T $5.70
Michael Andrews "Hand on String" $4.20
Andrew Hill "Point of Departure" $3.00
Cheikh Lo "Lamp Fall" $5.70

in the philly store all rap is now 50 cents.

One letter too many.

One letter short.

Hideous Lump Presents

"...And, Scene" - The Final Tower Records Binge

70% or more off. Average cost $4.85 (not counting the $14 4-CD set, which throws off the curve).

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Live At The Granada Theatre, Lawrence, KS 4/27/05
Alvin Curran - Inner Cities (4-CD set of solo piano)
Doleful Lions - Shaded Lodge And Masoleum
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse
Drywall (a.k.a. Stan Ridgway) - Barbeque Babylon
Gershon Kingsley - God Is A Moog (Yiddish folk tunes as adapted by a '60s Moog pioneer)
Los Mocosos - Shades Of Brown
Eugene Mirman - En Garde, Society!
Negativland - Jamcon '84: Over The Edge Vol. 1
Jim Noir - Tower Of Love
Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part
Vidna Obmana & Willem Tanke - Variations For Organ, Keyboard And Processors (ambient)
Oneida - The Wedding
The Paper Chase - Now You Are One Of Us
People In Planes - As Far As The Eye Can See
Pilotdrift - Water Sphere
Brian Posehn - Live In: Nerd Rage
Puffy Amiyumi - Splurge
Rum Diary - Poisons That Save Lives
The Shazam - The Shazam
The Shazam - Godspeed The Shazam
The Shazam - Tomorrow The World
Shooting At Unarmed Men - Yes! Tinnitus! (McLusky bassist's new band)
Sloan - A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005 (with DVD of videos and documentary)
Slow Dazzle - The View From The Floor
Sons & Daughters - Love The Cup
Richard Swift - The Novelist/Walking Without Effort
Thrones - Day Late, Dollar Short (Joe Preston from Earth/Melvins/High on Fire)
Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells
Various Artists - The Dark Psyche: An Aural Exhibition Of Black Metal From Top Scholars In The Genre (best band name: Impaled Nazarene)
Various Artists - Dimension Mix: A Tribute To Dimension 5 Records (Beck, Stereolab, Apples in Stereo, etc.)
Various Artists - For A Decade Of Sin: 11 Years Of Bloodshot Records (2 CDs - My Morning Jacket [covering G. Harrison's "Behind That Locked Door"], Waco Brothers, Old 97s, John Doe, etc.)
Various Artists - Invite Them Up: The East Village's Acclaimed Live Comedy Show (3 CDs plus DVD)
Various Artists - The Sound The Hare Heard (Kill Rock Stars singer-songwriter comp - Laura Veirs, Sufjan Stevens, Colin Meloy, etc.)
The Vaz - The Lie That Matches The Furniture
White Whale - WWI
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

And now the fun starts--peeling off dozens of those fucking security seals.

Final round, $3 a pop:

Lhasa - The Living Road
Herbert - Scale
Belong - October Language
Serena-Maneesh - s/t
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us

im debating making a final stop tonite as the Village store closes Sunday, but don't know if I have the energy to do so.

I'm going to hit the Clark St Tower tonight. I have so many holes in my collection, I'm sure I'll walk out of there with $75 worth of music easily.

I think today or tomorrow is the last day here, and they're up to 90% off, with squat for choice.

Anyone want the Drywall (Stan Ridgway) disc? They've got like 430 of 'em.

I'd like tot hink, that at 90% off, I'd find more then a few things worth giving a shot too, even if I just was familiar with the name or something.

I think the ultimate insult to a band is to go into a Tower on the last day of this sale and there to be 8-10 of your albums on the rack.


Ouch.

Ghost Buffalo || s/t - $3.00
Serena Maneesh || s/t - $3.20
Truckfighters || Gravity x - $3.00


and i'm done...

RIP Tower. you'll be missed.