“You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about the impending demise of the CD. Yet, just two months ago, without much fanfare, Silver Platters expanded into the deserted shell of the old Tower Records, at the southeast foot of Queen Anne Hill. Other CD stores like Easy Street are doing fine in Seattle, but none has been so daring as to take on an additional 42,000 square feet of retail space. Does this spunky little business know something no one else knows — again?”