Like it or not, it's a sign of the times. No one who takes music seriously has counted on finding anything meaningful in places like Tower. Tower use to be a music store run by people remotely interested in people. Now it's run by dim witted air heads who think they are rock stars. Added to the mix that Tower sells everything from candy bars to soft porn and it has become the biggest who cares around. Tough. The internet has realistically leveled the playing field. How many of us check our respective bidding pages before going off to work everyday? How much did you bid on that Beatle or Hendrix album? Or the Mercury Living Presence? Do you really want to stop off at Tower to hear the latest Slipknot? Kid Rock,rocks not! I live in metro Wash DC and the record/music terrain is changing drastically. But, there are a couple shops that serve the serious music collectors and hopefully they will continue to be fun places to visit. Tower use to be like a five star resturant, a place you didn't care how much you spent as you always got what you paid for(usually). Now it's fast food. No quality, all attitude. Thank God for the used cd stores. The only thing that scares me is the mail-order houses that serve our hobby ( you know who they are) are slowly becoming the hustler's that Tower became. Just how many Sinply Vinyl titles did you buy last week? Yet all of mail order houses are running sales on them. I wish us all luck. Meanwhile the most fun you can have in the hobby are the record collector shows, they have it all.