You brought back so many memories of the late 90s...

It all started when I overheard an employee tell another one, “we only put the anti theft tags on rap music, because nobody steals anything else.” My jazz collection took off after that.

You didn’t have to conceal anything, and because they only put those big bulky plastic cases (blister packs?) on the rap stuff, you could carry a ton of rock/jazz/classical cds in each hand and just...walk the fuck out.

My crew and I would go and make a night of it sometimes, to see who could score the most cds.

I did finally almost get caught tho, and had to shut it down. When Tower went under a few years later, my sense of loss was a little complicated by my guilt lol.