List of Defunct Retailers of The United States - Music and Video Stores (records, Tapes, Books, CDs, DVDs, Etc.)

Music and Video Stores (records, Tapes, Books, CDs, DVDs, Etc.)

  • Argus Tapes & Records
  • B. Dalton
  • Borders Books - some locations purchased by Books-A-Million; borders.com website acquired by Barnes & Noble
  • Blockbuster Music — some locations converted to Wherehouse Music; majority were abandoned
  • Budget Tapes & Records — Kansas
  • Camelot Music — converted to FYE stores
  • Cavages — Buffalo, New York
  • Cellophane Square
  • Circuit City
  • Coconut's — like Record Town, all locations were converted into FYE stores
  • Compact Disc Center
  • Crown Books
  • Disc Jockey
  • Discount Records
  • Flipside Records — Chicago, Illinois area
  • Franklin Music
  • Great American Music
  • Harmony House — Michigan
  • Hollywood Video
  • Incredible Universe
  • King Carol
  • Licorice Pizza — California
  • Listenin' Booth
  • Madcats Music & Books
  • Media Play — closed and dissolved in 2006
  • Movie Gallery — some Midwestern Stores were converted to Family Video, but some former buildings in the region are abandoned
  • Music Boutique — Seattle
  • Music Den
  • Music Plus — California
  • Musicland — Minnesota
  • National Record Mart — Pennsylvania
  • Odyssey Records & Tapes
  • On Cue
  • Oranges Records & Tapes
  • Paul's Record Hut — New Rochelle, New York; Paul, Paula, Paddy, Andy
  • Peaches Records and Tapes
  • Quonset Hut Records & More
  • Rainbow Records — Oklahoma City
  • Record & Tape Outlet (later CD & Tape Outlet ) — Ohio
  • Record Bar — malls
  • Record Town — store name changed to FYE by parent company Trans World Entertainment
  • Record World
  • Rose Records — Chicago, Illinois area
  • Sam Goody — most locations converted to FYE, but a small number of locations continue to operate as Sam Goody
  • Sammy's Record Shack — St. Louis?
  • Saturday Matinee - acquired by Record Town before becoming FYE.
  • Second Time Around
  • Soul Sounds Unlimited
  • Sound Warehouse — acquired by Blockbuster Inc.; subsequently converted some stores to Blockbuster Music, the remainder to Blockbuster Video
  • Sounds of Soul Records & Tapes
  • Square Circle
  • Starship Tapes & Records — Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Strawberries — Massachusetts, acquired by f.y.e
  • Tape World
  • Tower Records — converted to an online-only retailer
  • Turtle's Records & Tapes
  • The Record Shops at TSS
  • The Wall — formerly Wall To Wall Sound & Video
  • Waldenbooks
  • Waves Music
  • Waxie Maxie - Virginia
  • Wherehouse Music
  • Vinyl Fever — small Florida record store chain; went out of business January 2011
  • Virgin Megastores
  • Yesterday's Records/Discs — Wichita, Kansas

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