Tower Records is finally to be liquidated. Here's the AP story. For the record (no pun intended), the first album I ever bought at a Tower Records (San Francisco) was either in 1974 or 1975 -- Brian Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets." I was there for Tower opening in Greenwich Village, the pioneer retail store on lower Broadway, and I was at the opening of the store in Picadilly Circus. For many years it was a late night ritual to stop by Tower on Sunset Strip, jet-lagged and LA-buzzed, to look through the import section. Surely this marks the end of destination stores for recorded music?
