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Founder of Tower Records dies at 92 while drinking whiskey and watching the Oscars
Sacramento Bee ^ | March 5, 2018 | DALE KASLER AND BOB SHALLIT

Posted on 03/06/2018 9:24:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Does everyone just download music off the internet nowadays?”

Most folks buy their CDs from Amazon. It’s the best selection in the world.


41 posted on 03/06/2018 10:10:13 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Death by Kimmel.


42 posted on 03/06/2018 10:11:02 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Drive up to Amoeba Records in Hollywood. You can spend hours in there. Sounds and smells like our childhoods.


43 posted on 03/06/2018 10:12:31 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Psalm 73

Play them through a tube-amp?


44 posted on 03/06/2018 10:17:42 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yea that was a great location and a fun part of town.


45 posted on 03/06/2018 10:18:54 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Flick Lives

Saw a great t-shirt on this older guy the other day:

I am old, I need my glasses

Shot glass, beer glass, wine glass


46 posted on 03/06/2018 10:25:23 AM PST by Jolla
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

despite the wonderous medicinal and longevity powers of the whiskey, NOTHING could save him from the deadly Hollywood Oscars!


47 posted on 03/06/2018 10:27:25 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I guess you could watch the Oscars using the Mystery Science Theater approach, in that way it would be entertaining. As for whiskey, no thanks.


48 posted on 03/06/2018 10:37:27 AM PST by Stevenc131
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

BFL


49 posted on 03/06/2018 10:37:41 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Flick Lives

That’s not the way I want to die.
I want to go like grandpa in restful sleep, unlike the other three people with him in the car, as it flies off the cliff.


50 posted on 03/06/2018 10:46:35 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I don’t even know what kind of people watch the Oscars anymore.

People who embrace their depravity and evil I suppose.


51 posted on 03/06/2018 10:46:51 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He needed alcohol to be able to sit through the Oscars. Sad.


52 posted on 03/06/2018 10:51:09 AM PST by Trillian
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To: Psalm 73

CD’s are becoming obsolete and vinyl is making a big comeback.


53 posted on 03/06/2018 11:23:52 AM PST by katiedidit1
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To: Calvin Locke
"Play them through a tube-amp?"

I wish!

(A buddy visited the Jet Propulsion Lab on business a few years ago - said they had a whole climate-controlled warehouse full of vacuum tubes - man, that's like gold).

54 posted on 03/06/2018 11:24:35 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I miss Peaches. Had of bunch of their crates for my albums.


55 posted on 03/06/2018 11:25:40 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Psalm 73

A cousin of mine had a Fisher tube audio amp in the ‘60’s. I don’t think it was stereo but it was the best I ever heard playing vinyl. A little later I used to play cassettes through my 85 watt Fender Twin Reverb but only when no one else was home.


56 posted on 03/06/2018 11:31:20 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What a looser!!!


57 posted on 03/06/2018 11:56:52 AM PST by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve got about five Peaches crates full myself, somewhere. Hope I had the foresight not to put them in the basement, it’d be a pity to ruin them with mildew.


58 posted on 03/06/2018 12:13:10 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If it hasn’t been mentioned already, let me recommend the documentary “All Things Must Pass”, covering the rise and fall of Tower Records.


59 posted on 03/06/2018 12:14:05 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

It was a mercy killing


60 posted on 03/06/2018 12:15:05 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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