VANISHING VINYL: Tower Records has instructed its...

VANISHING VINYL: Tower Records has instructed its buyers to quit ordering new 45s (F4), a further blow to the technologically disadvantaged who haven’t switched to cassettes or CDs. . . . Only a handful of O.C. outlets still sell singles. . . . How much longer might 45s be for sale? “It looks like probably another two or three years,” says Charlie Cheek of Music Market in Costa Mesa. “Then most of it is going to be gone.”