[Slowhand] Tower Records to Close

[Almighty Geetarz]

I won't bore list members with all my thoughts on this subject, but in 
short, we're still in the beginning stages of a revolution in technology 
that will take decades (some would say, centuries) to fully unfold.  
After all, the printing press changed the world - and we are still 
feeling the ripples of change from that invention.

Just as there aren't too many haberdashers or buggy whip manufacturers 
about, some of the things we have long taken for granted will be going 
by the wayside.

I'm curious to see if the new, digital age, will in some way bring the 
music business full circle back to the mid 1960s, when the single was 
king and before the concept of an intertwined body of work a.k.a. "the 
album" came to dominance in the music world, along with the idea of 
singer/songwriters who write, play, and record their own material.  As 
people move more and more toward individual downloads of songs, will 
people be forced - as they were with the LP - to take the deeper, more 
intricate songs, along with the catchy hits?

At any rate, Tower Records is going Down, Down, Down :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121001003.html

I think their financial problems probably started with a shameless bit 
of pilfering of promotional materials in June, 1999, in Philadelphia 
.... don't YOU, (you know who you are!)

<very big grin>

AG