man do I miss Tower records and

Tower in los angeles was a joke for the last ten years probably 20. The
Inventory was ok at best pushing new release crap from the big labels and the prices were not hot either

Virgin is mediocre too

Amoeba in los angeles smokes tower in every way....more product used product mor knowledgeable staff better return policy

It's the loss of arons and rhino Westwood that truly hurts...these stores were eclectic and had great prices on used stuff

aarons had the greatest prog rock section ever. i really miss strolling in there late at night, and leaving with a bagfull of jane or barclay james harvest.

Maybe if this guy in Indy didn't focus on just albums he would survive. Maybe sell pizza, have a few tanning beds, peddle some smut, maybe some used gear, that kinda thing. Just like in trucking, if you wanna own trucks you need more than one so if one is down others are generating revenue.

In fact I use to live in Indy and there was Howard's Hard To Find. He dealt in used vinyl back in the early 90's, I bet he has been long gone.

I was in The missing Link store a couple of years ago; not to purchase but to see what my lp collection was worth. Not much to the store owner so I auctioned them off on Agon. The store was located in a small house in Broadripple, the "hip" part of town.
The vinyl resurgence among young people was in full bloom; my daughter was part of it. But it was just a fad for my daughter who stuck with the ipod. which is not just a fad. For my kids the ipod is the way to listen to music as vinyl was to me at there age.
Things change.