#Sam Goody

[fangomusic]

Old Record Stores.

[90s-2000s-barbie]

On Cue - Music Books Movies

In 1992, Musicland Group, Inc opened On Cue stores across the country. They sold Music, Books and Movies, as well as musical instruments and gave small towns that were not near a major metro a place for great selection.

[imstuckin1999]

[y2kmagazines]

Sam Goody ad (Fall 2000)

[fantastickkay]

From Teen People, March 2000

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[synsick]

Nobody:

90's album art:

[ourladyofomega]

Final Two Sam Goody Stores To Close. (Consequence)

Discovered Sam Goody during the year I started taking record-shopping seriously, and was the second closest record store from me (Islandia) aside from Mother's Music (Central Islip). It's where I got my Chemical Brothers e.p.'s, Bush cassingles, and Pop Will Eat Itself's Dos Dedos Mis Amigos on CD. I still have them all.

[greensparty]

Last Two Sam Goody Stores to Close

This truly is the end of an era now: The mall record store chain Sam Good has only two stores left in St. Clairsville, OH and Medford, OR and both are set to close in 2025. This is particularly sad because I didn't know they were still around at all.

During the time that I worked at Suncoast Motion Picture Company at the Burlington Mall in Burlington, MA, both Suncoast and the Sam Goody store at the same mall were owned by Musicland. So as an employee I got a 20% discount at both Suncoast and Sam Goody. The best days were when they had double discount day for employees, so it went up to 40%. Sam Goody was never nearly as good as nearby stores like Newbury Comics or Tower Records, but they sold a ton of CDs and cassette tapes and it was cool to pick up something when you were shopping at the mall. If I remember correctly, I think Sam Goody is where I bought Nirvana's Nevermind after December vacation with my Xmas money! But I digress. Sometime in the 00s, Sam Goody changed owners and with the rise of digital music, mall record stores became less and less, hence there were less and less Sam Goody stores.

The link above is the article from Consequence.

[musicmags]

[iamdotwav88]

Jamestown Mall in its former glory.

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[90s-2000s-barbie]

May 28, 2004

[vaporetail]

A Collection of old Retail Websites in the WebTV Viewer

[royb0t]

[oldshowbiz]

1952.

Suing Sam Goody.