Flipping through CD's at Tower Records in 1997: Part III
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2023
- More footage from inside a Tower Records store but this time in Boston, Massachusetts.
Video of people browsing various CD's, a nice overhead shot albeit with some annoying buzzing toward the end.
Regardless, this is a short one that last around 2 to 3 minutes maybe.
#towerrecords
Back then i thought CDs would never go out of style
People should use cds and not Spotify right?
@chrisgooglemaps2108 yeah, at least my aunt from my mom’s side still uses cds, everyone else’s should do it though right?
They may be out of style however, they are still collectible.
@@thisisderricksilkwhy out of style?
No wonder people look at me funny when they see me changing cds at a red light.😂
Everybody that worked in a music store always looked more hip than the average person. Old videos like this make me happy and sad at the same time.
1997, age 25. Tower Records was my favorite music store of all times. In the 1990s my boyfriend and I hung out at their Cherry Hill store on Saturday mornings, flipping through rare CDs, listening to new albums, getting custom cassettes made from Tower's
music service. We'd normally spent at least 2 hrs there. And afterwards we'd eat at the Chuck E Cheese's in the plaza for a slice. I miss those days!
I was homeless and 22. I would go in to listen at the stations 😂
As someone born in the year 2000, I can't believe I was around when the world looked like this. And then by the time I had gained true 'consciousness', it was the future and this stuff was gone! I only faintly remember the last Blockbusters. Sometimes I wish I was born in the 90s so I could've witnessed the magic of the pre-internet world. I'm thankful for streaming services, but man would it be fun exploring a music shop like this.
No, you would want to be a kid in the 80s… THAT was a decade!😃
Each city and region was it's own microcosm. The world seemed so large then due to the limited communication. Especially in the 1980s. Long distance phone calls costed extra and it was a lot, so you usually only made calls locally within your city and that was on a wired land line.
Beyond that you could only realistically get information from TV or printed newspapers. Most people just went about their lives, not really glued on a 24 hour news cycle and the stress/anxiety it causes. And the news media weren't quite as obvious with political bias and trying to tell people what to think. There was a bit more decorum.
Many people still didn't own computers and the internet was still really young in the late 1990s. So not quite the international hiveminds like we see today. No tidepod challenge nonsense or tiktok self motivated garbage. Less narcissism in general. Music stores were a window to the world. And an album was both art and entertainment in the audio and physical (photos and liner notes) booklet. I miss that.
The limitations of the technology were a help for society, I think. But we didn't know that then. Because the better technology became, the more of a weapon it could become. Politically, socially, psychologically. I don't think society was quite ready for an internet or global communication system. It's allowed people to become more alienated and exclusionary while also being hostile due to the 'private' nature of online communication. Back then if you had something to say, you had to say it to someone's face. That made more people a bit more.. cautious of what they said. So most people were polite. Not walking on eggshells but just generally not rude. Late 90s society was trending down . 2001 really was the coup de grace though. I think the best time was early 80s to around 1992 or 1994. It was sometime around then when cracks were starting to form societally.
I miss Tower Records. It was so much fun going to the listening stations to preview a CD & then buying it & popping the CD in your car & cranking up! ❤❤
Can totally see myself shopping for cds. Alanis Morissette, sinead O'connor. Savage garden, garbage. Soundtracks and more. Missed those days. The excitement when u walk into a record store is everything cus u know that music can change ur life! Thanks
No Music, No Life.
I still buy physical CDs to this day. I'm not really big into buying digital music, or playing music off Spotify. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to hold a physical copy in my hands. Like an authentic piece lol
But I was bad during my teenage years. Downloading music from Limewire and Kazaa. Burning CDs. Good ol days. It was around those times where you didn't know if a song or video had a virus on them lol
Sony put rootkits in their CD's.
Take it you use either a desktop, older laptop or external CD player? If you come across a new laptop with a CD/DVD burner built in let me know.
@@mitchell.9632 I just used cheap Memorex CDs to burn. They worked quite well. I still have a CD ROM drive in my desktop. Rarely use it nowadays though.
Same I love my physical cds.
It’s so astounding to see how things looked the year I was born!!!! I love this channel
Aw, I miss Tower! I rember when the one in my old neighborhood shut down. It felt so weird not seeing the sign.
I went to Japan earlier this year and there was still a lot of Tower Record stores scattered throughout the country. Mostly due to their stagnant economy but Japan is known as the country “stuck in 2000 since 1985” and it doesn’t look that far off from this video.
Take me back 🥹🥹
I remember going and being there for an hour or so, just taking my time looking at everything. ❤
I still have my CD's.
My dad still has a lot of his
Good o’l Tower Records it's a damn shame it went out of business, but I got to spend as much time as I could there. They had an awesome selection. I truly loved that store!
Wish these would make a comeback 😪
There was a Tower Records I used to go to in Annapolis. I went there with my twin sister one day back in 2000, and all the new releases were $17.99, which was way more allowance money than we had. Instead, my sister and I went to the back and tried to find the weirdest CD we could find in the sale section. We settled on an album by The Drunks called “Ruin it For Everyone.” We had never heard of the band, but we thought they had a funny name, so we bought the CD for $8. It turned out to be a punk album, and it indeed sounded like everyone in the band was sloppy drunk when it was recorded. We had a good laugh when we got home and listened to the CD. I still think about that from time to time.
I found it ua-cam.com/video/_zSoCIttvHw/v-deo.html you weren't kidding. I can't even understand most of the lyrics.
Man, I sometimes wish I could go back in time...
This stuff is the best! I get so nostalgic for these old stores. Thank you for helping us relive the memories. Do you have footage from Crown Books, Brentanos Bookstore or Sam Goody/Musicland?
Worked for these characters, they were seedy in every way possible. But somehow things got done and they had every cd you could want.
I hope the good old fashioned record stores come back (wishful thinking). Just to let today's youngsters see what it was really like.
There’s a store in the HRM in Nova Scotia called Sunrise records. It’s something like this
We've actually got two record stores where I live. It's mix of CDs and vinyls. Granted, most of them are used but they do get new stuff in.
Just went to a Tower Records in Japan last month! Great store
The buzzing is the best part.
There was a cd/vinyl shop in my area that remained open, it kinda shifted from being out of date to a nostalgic shop. The owner retired so unfortunately the place closed down. The employees had so much knowledge of music it was unreal.
Shania Twain's big selling "Come On Over" album was released in 1997, but this may have been before it was released.
Looks like the store near the NYU campus at NoHo NYC. Bought plenty of CDs, and it still has the Tower Record price stickers.
This is me ALL highschool... although I was usually at virgin records megastore & it was never this quiet
I'll never give up my cds and dvd/blu rays!
I really miss this particular location. It was my introduction to Tower Records in the '80s and was an awesome space.
I loved visiting music stores. It’s sad that kids today can’t experience this enjoyable event
There are record stores in every city still
Good vid
Growing up in MA I remember this Boston Tower Records well. Those were fun days.
"Shine Soundtrack"
I have that. I'm looking at it as I type this
Yes! Can you do please Flipping Through Baby Einstein CDs at Tower Records in 2005.
A Sacramento Institution. Tower Records was started because of how eclectic the taste of music was in our city. Gone, but not forgotten.
A few years before I got my mini disc player. I loved my mini disc player.
Love it! Awesome! So happy to see you again Steven 😀
I remember my mom used to take me Tower Records when I was a kid. I was old enough to buy exactly one CD there before they went under, Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
I always wondered how that store stayed in business it was hardly anyone in there.
I still use cds today. Well in my car at least
Tower Records was the best!!
In the mask 1994 jim carey you can see a tower records store
0:56 "hmm, interesting. Maybe? Maybe not?" Trying to play that guessing game. Trying to figure out if you want to buy it just from the cover.
I can't remember if Tower had those stations where you could scan it and listen to little 30 second clips though. Although sometimes those didn't really make it any easier. I got burned on cds I bought even with those previews.....
There was a great, huge Tower Records in Dubai between 2000 to 2005 or so. Very few people knew about it or went there.
That red neon Tower Records sign is a total vibe there at the end. Total 90s energy.
Cool video
Vinyl is back!
I recently found out Tower Records is still in business. But online only ☹️
Crazy how now all that music is now on your phone
Is this the West Village in NYC?
Fun times !
Since I have a vehicle with a CD player, I keep a CD in it for when I do not feel like the extra steps of connecting a phone and just want to push a simple button to play.
Not sure what vehicle you have, but my 2019 Civic automatically connects my phone as soon as I turn the car on and starts playing whatever was playing last--no "extra steps" necessary.
I’m just curious, do you happen to have any footage of a Toyota dealership in the late 90s by chance? I was wasn’t around until 2002. But my parents had a 1998 Toyota 4Runner that my grandparents bought in the early 2000s. It would be cool to see what a Toyota dealer looked like in the late 1990s.
Missed out on the 90s although strangely enough I like many zoomers have this nostalgia for it. Maybe it was because I grew up with all the tech of the 90s. VHS, VCRs, huge CRT televisions, A house phone until my parents finally gave in and got cellphones in 2006 or 2007. The original Xbox (I know it came out in 2001) was my first console. Used to sneak on it and play Halo Combat Evolved as an 8 year old kid, it was fun. Probably something I shouldn’t have been playing haha.
I remember Blockbuster too, there were several around my house still surviving by 2014. VHS was long long long gone by the time I was cognizant.
The 2000s were sort of an extended 1990s in my eyes. Although geopolitically and economically things were extremely different by the mid to late 2000s. I feel like we Zs enjoyed an experience similar to the millennials of the 90s.
Another thing I seem to recall being a kid in the later 2000s was seeing all the old Geo Prizms, Toyota Corollas, Jeep XJs by the dozens. Tons of old economy cars, SUVs and minivans from the 90s still puttering around. Cash for clunkers really did a number on those bubbly cars.
And that completes my nostalgia rant 😂
The year I graduated high school
I shopped there!
Why is it so quiet, its so peaceful. Every store i go into now is loud as hell, sensory overload
I hardly ever see cd's in stores anymore.
This isn't Tower Records at the corner of Mass Ave. and Newbury street, is it? I worked at Tower Records Boston during that era and it was spacious but not this spacious. Actually I worked there from 1994 to 2003 although in 2001 we we had to move when the Virgin Megastore took over that location and we moved into a new one in the Fenway area.
What year did stores introduce previewing CD’s? I remember scanning the barcode and you could put on headphones to listen to either 30 second sample of a song or maybe it was a few songs?
I was just talking to my irritation with the modern generation's trend of coming up with unnecessary, redundant, and often incomprehensible descriptors for things. "Goblin mode" basically means "lazy". "Flow charting" in a fighting game basically means "repeating patterns". I find it insanely dumb.
Lately I've been appraised of some of the apparently thousands of designators to indicate the seemingly millions of minute little variants between musical genres. For example we now have something called "porn core" or something like it which I guess is a form of metal or punk that specifically has the style of classic porno music laid on top of it. Or something?
I went off on a tangent to the person who was telling me this, explaining that I find it overindulgent and actually rather smug of people to believe that the smallest little changes in style or variations of beat and / or instrumentation requires a whole new "genre" of music. To this end I pointed out that I'm almost glad that music stores don't exist anymore. How would kids today understand where to find their Ska core alt emo screamo crave apple core nu core craft beer music? When I went into a record store growing up I knew where to find what I was looking for because THE STORE WASN'T CATEGORIZED INTO SEVEN THOUSAND SECTIONS.
Perfect
Flowchart boomer reponse LOL
I thought this store sold vinyl? Where were people getting records in the early 2000s?
I was born in 2004 and can you please make a video of shopping at Mervyn's in 2007
The good old days of buying music physically. I hate the streaming movement. I love a good hardcase copy of a cd or single.
To think these r all on a cell phone now
I used to spend hours in Tower Records and Sam Goody. I worked at both stores at some point in high school. My friends would come in and visit me and use my discount. Fun times
what date did it got filmed?
Where's the Nu Metal section?
Month please?
me and my mom would always go to Tower Records all the time here in Los Angeles.. Amoeba is not the same either. Tower was way cooler.
Last weekend i got undisputed 2002 original soundtrack
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Rest In Peace Tower Records. 🪦💐 Thanks to all the cashiers working at music stores in the 90's for selling CD's with the "Parental Advisory" labels on them to the kids considered "too young" to buy them!!! Buying an "R" rated movie wasn't anything to bat an eye at, but trying to buy a CD with a "Parental Advisory" sticker was a pain at times because of the "adults looking out for the kids" as though what kids were listening to was the biggest social problem at the time. 🙄