Brian and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite spots after work. Afterward, we wandered over to Tower Records on Market. The windows are covered with posters announcing that they will soon be out of business, and that everything is at least 40% off. You know it’s over when even the fixtures are for sale ($35).

We walked slowly up and down the aisles, where all of the remaining CDs had been condensed into one corner of the floor. Everything was massively picked over, but I managed to find a few things, partially due to CDs being stuck back in the wrong place:

Beulah: “Yoko”
Brendan Benson: “One Mississipi”
Green Day: “Insomniac”
Supergrass: “Road to Rouen”
Band of Horses: “Everything all the Time” (last one!)
Spoon: “I Turn My Camera On” single, which cost $3 and only had one worthwhile song on it that I didn’t already own. pffft.

All told, I spent about $50, so, less than they would have cost me in the iTunes store, basically. Except for that Spoon b-side. The second b-side (c-side?) of that one was so bad I could only get through about 40 seconds of it. Oh well.

Some of the CDs were decidedly un-picked over, like the long rows of Blues Traveler and Duran Duran. I don’t know what happens to all the stuff they can’t unload, but I imagine that on the last day they’re open there will be some crazy “everything’s a dollar” sale, wherein people will fill their baskets with CDs to promptly sell at Amoeba. Heh.

Ok. It’s time for dessert: pistachio nest! Mmmm.