DMW: Digital Music W...

If I were to write a memorial to the death of the Tower Records music store chain, it would read something like this...

Out of all the record stores I have ever shopped in -- from your HMVs to Sam Goodie; from fye to Musicland -- your record store was the only record store high on my mind. You had everything and more. Whenever I needed a vinyl version of a musician's release, I would definitely find it at Tower. Sometimes, I would walk into the Lincoln Center store and just browse. But every time I did that, I always seemed to find myself buying something. Last Fall when Mute released Goldfrapp's Supernature in the U.K., I knew I could find an import for sale in your store. I could've gone to HMV, but I already had a deep relationship with Tower. The feeling you get when walking into a Tower store is vastly different from say walking into a Best Buy or Barnes and Noble. Those people don't know jack shit about music and that's not their business. Tower Records, on the other hand, lived and breathed the music it sold. And Amazon.com actually screwed up when they closed down CDNow (they actually sold LPs when it was in business).

Its sad to see you go, but hopefully your spirit of being the best music store will live on.