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Thrilling Tales: Tower Records

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Can a once-revered brick-and-mortar music chain be brought back to life in the era of Amazon and Spotify? Podcast production by Jess Miller and Cleo Levin. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Dear Prudence and Slow Burn. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1

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0:30.2

Empire Records is considered a cult movie.

0:32.8

So I may be talking about a movie called Empire Records that came out in 1995.

0:47.0

It was kind of a flop at the time, but over the years it's developed a very devoted following.

0:52.0

Through your left, you will notice a shoplifter being chased by Nightingir Lucas.

0:56.0

This young man will be fired in a mat of hot oil and served.

1:00.0

To our first under the works.

1:02.0

Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records.

1:07.0

The movie is about a day in the life of employees at a record store

1:11.0

and it's based on Carol's experiences working at a tower records in Phoenix as a teenager in the early 1980s.

1:18.0

There's a character who at least the way I originally wrote it.

1:22.0

It's like she wasn't really cool enough to work

1:25.2

there she was good in school she was getting a scholarship to go to college you know

1:29.6

and so that was based on me. What are you doing here?

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