I had to buy one as I always liked my vinyl version of it and this had 8 bonus tracks! (review: it doesn’t really hold up all these years later. heh heh)

anyways ON TOPIC, in the racks of Tower there were 24 copies of this forgotten LP!

24!!

now that’s deep catalogue!
. . . says alot of good and bad about Tower and music store commerce

This week, I walked past the vacant South Street location and had a flashback of walking in there circa 1989 and seeing, for the first time, how all LPs were gone and replaced by CDs (In the old fashioned oblong cd boxes). I had seethed with rage at the loss of my beloved records and decided CDs were a conspiracy to force everybody to upgrade to expensive stereo equipment. “Feh! I’ll never do it” I thought.

I also recently walked past the Gap on Walnut Street and remembered how HMV had built that fancy new building just for their flagship Philadelphia store. When it opened, Walnut Street was still sort of dumpy and damn–HMV was such a sleek, dreamy place. I could spend hours exploring it. So much college loan money spent foolishly on music. But I loved it.

Now I buy and trade music on the internet and only set foot in music stores when they’re going out of business. It’s sort of like consumer’s revenge for me, but I still feel sad at the loss of retail stores.

iTunes just doesn’t hold the same sort of thrill.

Don’t worry, though. As long as Soul Dance is still on Channel 44, we’ll always have the music. And the Willingboro Grand Marketplace ads.