HW: Re: Tower Records

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jill wrote:

> Eric Siegerman wrote:
> >
> > Rich Lockwood wrote:
> > > Went into Tower Records at 9:30am on Bank Holiday Monday to be met by the
> > > sound of MotorwayCity at huge volume, terrifying Japanese tourists.  I knew
> > > then that it was going to be a good day.
> >
> > And I went into the main HMV store in Toronto on Sunday to be met
> > by two stacks of the EMI remastered Space Ritual on the "Imports"
> > display rack -- the one right up front where you can't miss it as
> > you get off the escalator.  (And to boot, there were a couple of
> > stacks of a Monster Magnet CD a couple of rows down.)
>
> Interestingly Virgin had their Epoch Eclipse CDs labelled with CHART
> stickers on them so either there is a chart entry or they are trying to
> make one happen.   Either way this is a rare and remarkable development!

        They did that with _Distant Horizons_ too, so I fear it is just
their way to flag new CDs which have an excitingly low price before
jacking them up to industry standard three weeks later... Yours,
                                                                 Jon