All Things Must Pass: Tower Records Returns to SF Cinemas
By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee
Staff Reporter


The iconic sight of a Tower Records storefront in a still image from ‘All Things Must Pass’

BANGKOK — In the late ‘90s, Kasidit Samniang worked his first job as a teen at a Tower Records at Emporium Bangkok. Dusting, arranging cassettes alphabetically and ordering music products exposed Gene to the music industry.

That life-changing experience for Kasidit, now better known as glam/trans singer Gene Kasidit, is one of many from a time when the music store was a way of life throughout the world, including in Bangkok where Gene and others such as Kanchat Rangseekansong could be found poring through records.

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-- Khaosod English 2016-03-22

I remember spending hours in Tower Records in Emporium and in the one in Siam Paragon (also Singapore and their was one in Pattaya renamed CD warehouse i think - upstairs in Garden City nr Ripleys ) trying to find music with their often strange cataloguing system . First names before the surname and that system was thrown asunder with duos or bands. Meant the kept you searching and finding more music to walk out of the shop that you ever intended to buy.