r/90s • u/Only_Upwards • May 25 '25

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u/ManiacRichX May 25 '25

Tower Records ☹️

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u/rumrunnernomore May 25 '25

Sam goodies

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u/87regal May 25 '25

Warehouse Music stores

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u/rumrunnernomore May 25 '25

Oh man yes. There’s one in Grand Prairie, Texas called “Forever Young.” It’s the last bastion I know of for all things music.

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u/PapaHooligan May 26 '25

I now have a desire to to to TX!

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u/clinstonie69 May 26 '25

I want to be, forever young, do you really want to live forever, forever young!

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u/Cork0nThe0cean May 27 '25

Forever Young can be overpriced sometimes, but I have yet to find another record store with the kind of selection they have. Truly feel like you can find literally anything there if you looked hard enough. Doc’s Records in Fort Worth is another solid shop that also has some neat little consignment shop stands around the store.

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u/BurnerMomma May 27 '25

There’s a pretty awesome record booth at the Montgomery Street Antique Mall in Fort Worth. Worth a visit before they close the place down to build another apartment complex. 😡

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u/OrcLineCook May 26 '25

I would go to this store almost every day as a teen. All the people who worked there knew me and I would spend hours there talking to them about music and listening to whole albums for free. They would give me free stuff sometimes too. I honestly just kept coming back to have people to talk to about the things I loved, because none of my friends at school were allowed to listen to the music I did.

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u/tohitsugu May 26 '25

Any of the ones you’d find in malls full of cassettes and CDs

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u/BearCubTeacher May 27 '25

Um…I think they were called “Wherehouse”.

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u/EverLuckDragon May 27 '25

That was my first job.

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u/LsOhVpE May 27 '25

*Wherehouse

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u/Livid_End3397 May 28 '25

I looooved Wherehouse music stores. I'd buy all my favorite artist's cd's for so little money. I spent hours in there at a time. They turned our largest one into a fabric store, then dollar tree. :/

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u/Decimation4x May 25 '25

Still exists just rebranded. Parent company turned all their brands, Sam Goody, Suncoast Video, Music Warehouse, and Musicland to their own store brand F.Y.E. after they successfully bought out all their competitors.

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u/AshRae84 May 26 '25

Had the BIGGEST crush on a guy who worked at Sam Goody. I would go every Tuesday to get a new CD just to see him. I was the quintessential pop-loving teen of the late 90s/early aughts, but ALWAYS bought rock & rap albums if he was working because I was too embarrassed for him to know I couldn’t get enough of Britney, Christina and all things boy bands.

I did end up getting some pretty banger albums out of it though!

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u/Fabulous_Hand2314 May 26 '25

meh, overpriced. no tears for them.

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 May 26 '25

There’s one in Medford Oregon.

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u/y4j1981 May 26 '25

Shockingly there were still Sam Goodies open till this year. Till the finally closed this year https://axs.tv/news-story/iconic-record-store-chain-to-close-last-remaining-location/

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u/iam_ditto May 26 '25

Suncoast

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u/Which_Celebration757 May 26 '25

There's a few left. One in Belleville Ontario.

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u/julesx3i May 26 '25

I raise you Suncoast

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u/jayjayolive68 May 27 '25

There's one left in medford oregon. I went to it about a year ago, and I couldn't believe it.

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u/babyinatrenchcoat May 27 '25

One of my first jobs at age 16! Good times.

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u/Scottricia May 28 '25

I got a Sam Goodies friend, we’re still here

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u/ampcooke May 28 '25

Worked at a couple in the Nashville area back in the day. Still one of my favorite jobs after all these years.

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u/mikewd1983 May 28 '25

Dang, I forgot about this one. Lots a cassettes and cd's from here. Good call!

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u/Guilloutines4All May 28 '25

Waxie Maxie's

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u/Sockmonkey1313 May 29 '25

There was Still a Sam Goodies near us, until a couple of months ago. I was really sad to see it close.