Tower Records is going out of business and will be closing it’s doors at the end of the week. When I was in one of the stores last weekend, they were running at 70% off rock/pop, and rap CDs were 3 for $1.50. Judging from the inventory I saw, only music junkies, fans of a non-original lineup En Vogue, or fans of a rapper named “Celly Cel” would find more than a few interesting CDs.

I grabbed 18, one of which is a death metal note for note remake of AC/DC’s Back in Black. On that CD alone, I say it was worth the trip, but #1GF! disagrees

Just because 5 of the 18 CDs that I bought were lottery tickets (where I didn’t know more than the band’s name), #1GF! suggested that I may have a problem when it comes to music. While this may be true, for $4 per new disc, I consider purchases to be less of a problem and more of an early xmas present.

A sampling of what I picked up:

$2.40 NOFX - Never Trust a Hippy
$3.90 Distillers - Distillers
$3.90 Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
$4.00 NOFX - Wolves in Wolves Clothing
$4.00 Scissorfight - Jaggernaut
$4.20 Casey Jones - Messenger
$4.20 Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics vol. 2
$5.10 Only Living Witness Prone Mortal Form / Innocents Double disc
$5.10 Nebula - Apollo
$5.40 The Dirtbombs - Horndogfest

If you go, remember: The CDs are dirt cheap because they desperately need to liquidate, or buyers from other chains already saw them and knew they weren’t worth $4.

Happy hunting!

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