28925799_4333a3a31d_m.jpgThe news that Tower Records is closing makes me so, so sad. Depressed, even. I worked for Tower for seven years; it was my first real job (outside of teaching swimming lessons and babysitting). I started working there when I was 16, at the Broadway store (across the street from the original location), and they even let me transfer to the Santa Monica store when I went to school in L.A., so I worked there throughout college as well. It was only when I moved to New York that I had to cut the cord and find a real job.

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