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The earthy founder and chairman of the 42-year-old Tower Records chain helped usher in the superstore era with his 20,000-square-foot-plus shops whose endless racks were manna to music fans in big cities.
He then bought several household names in French retailing: Conforama, a furniture chain, Au Printemps, which owns department stores, and Fnac, a books-and-records chain.
The Our Price record chain is set to disappear next year - 30 years after it was founded.
When the record chain HMV opened a block away from his Record Shack, he immediately saw his Top 100 sales vanish.
It's atop the Tower Theater, where movies still play, and next door Russ Solomon, the founder of the record chain, sold records out of the Tower Pharmacy in the 1940's.
Stardom coincided with the 1984-85 minerstrikeike, so the group staged benefit concerts and picketed pits, coke plants and power stations, leading one record chain to refuse to stock their albums.
In December, the National Kidney Registry, one of the several nonprofit groups that arrange such swaps, completed a record chain of 30 successful transplants, performed over four months at 17 hospitals.
The joke Marc Weinstein likes to tell when the co-founder of California-based record chain Amoeba Music is asked about what he does for a living, is that he's basically worked in and around record shops for most of his life to avoid getting a real job.
According to USA today, in response to a police boycott the Texas Super Club Music record chain has removed Ice-T's latest album which has a picture of a black gunman and a label that says "Cop Killer" from all its 300 stores.
Another attack was reported against Nextcard, an Internet credit card company, for two hours on Feb. 2. And the Canadian-based site for the record chain HMV said today that it had been temporarily disabled on Feb. 7, the same day as the attack on Yahoo, by a similar onslaught.
