Since no one has commented on this in quite a while, I would like to add
that Tower Records, having run out-of-business all the small specialty
record stores in the US, now would have us select from less inventory than
was previously available here in Dallas from one or two independently owned
stores.  This is, unfortunately, also true in New York.  Some have managed
to hold on, but stores like Discophile and Discount Records, now gone, and
Record Hunter, which is not what it was, are few and far between.

Ralph D. White