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The Sacramento Bee reports that Tower Records is winding up their UK operations; within four months their signature store at Picadilly Circus will be turned over to the Virgin chain. Another store of great memories gone. When I first read a Usenet suggestion that one could import CDs directly from the UK in the late 1980s, it was Tower Records at Picadilly Circus that was the recommended store. Now this seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but around 1988 it was a new and exciting way to buy hard-to-get CDs. I would call Tower early in the morning and place my order with a young American emigre' woman who worked in their mail order department, and I got imports from Tower until I found the UK folk music specialists around 1990, when coincidentally Tower's shipping charges got outrageous. We made a pilgrimage to the Picadilly Circus store on our UK trip in 1995, and got armloads of European folk stuff and a few nice rock items too. I remember the store stereo playing The Charlatans, and I remember finding the now-scarce CD of Michelle Shocked's "Texas Campfire Tapes."
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