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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—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
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