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Goodbye Tower Records


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Jen Carlson

Published Dec 24, 2006

Modified Mar 7, 2008


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Tower Records has finally shut its doors. "The 46-year-old music retailer was sold to Los Angeles-based liquidator Great American Group for $134.3 million after a federal bankruptcy judge approved the sale in October." Tower.com is still up and running. At the store, they still had a few good things left over, including Sarah Silverman's Jesus is Magic.

Check out more photos at Triborough's flickr set.

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