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...block east on Tremont Street, a stone church tower pierces the fog. The doors of New Hope Baptist Church open and several well-dressed black ladies descend its well-worn concrete steps. An aging but lively woman says a deaconess meeting has just adjourned, and, like a good deaconess, she smiles and adds, "Come back tomorrow, and then you'll really have a story. We have a great service--you should bring your friends...
Amongst the cutthroat competition of the mom-and-pop music stores that litter Mass. Ave, Tower Records somehow manages to stay in business, proving that multimillion-dollar corporations can still survive in alternative-era Boston...
...Tower Records looms over the corner of Mass. Ave and Newbury St. in all of its sandstone and blue-steel glory, daring passers by to share in its decadence. Indeed, everything about Tower Records screams excess, from the double revolving doors to the haphazardly placed blue and orange neon lighting. According to Beth Blodgett, a store employee, Tower is "big and cheap and... so Tower...
...sheer amount of capital to which Tower has access allows the musical behemoth to provide an exhaustive inventory of every type of media known to man. Besides the standard collection of CD's (each with the standard price tag of $16), Tower supplements its offerings with everything from books to laserdiscs...
...surprisingly, Tower Records has also spread its abundant financial resources into non-audio products and services. It is now possible to rent videotapes from Tower, as well as to buy new releases at the priced-for-rental tag of $100. Other products include custom mailboxes, hemp necklaces, tiny pouches of "Zodiac Essence" and "Hello Kitty" pencil boxes...