The actor and filmmaker explains how he found the characters to tell a personal story about a brand that meant the world to him.
Depending on when you came of age as a music fan,your feelings about Tower Records may vary wildly. whether you were a teenager in the '60s or '70s, the store was a mecca for those who wanted enormous, and fully-stacked rows full of records like nothing they'd ever seen before. whether you were growing up in the more cynical '90s,you might have seen Tower as a corporate behemoth squeezing the cold local shops out of business—the genuine-life equivalent of the Music Town store in Empire Records. And whether your teenage years took place in the mid-'00s, well, and all you can carry out is wax nostalgic about a world you never knew—one in which a record store was the coolest place on soil.
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