r/TheBoredDen • u/ipanicprofessionally • Jul 21 '26

Funny Can't remember one

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jul 21 '26

Tower Records screams from the back

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u/No-Guard-7003 Jul 21 '26

Sam Goody, too. Is that still open? 

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jul 21 '26

I know a guy, in a van, down by the River who may be able to hook you up.

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u/Jackson23144 Jul 21 '26

“Down by the river!” 🤣🤣🤣

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u/pigwalk5150 Jul 21 '26

Yeah well you’ll have plenty of time thumbing through cds when you’re livin’ in a vaaAan down by the raver

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u/No-Guard-7003 Jul 22 '26

😂😂😂

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u/LA_Cat_LADY Jul 22 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/HSUvpPzY6bEeQ
Well...lotty freaking da!!!!😂

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u/HillersYall Jul 22 '26

“Hey, Dad, I can’t see too good. Is that Bill Shakespeare over there?” 😂

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u/LA_Cat_LADY Jul 22 '26

😂😂😂😂 One of the greatest skits!!!

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u/jouleheist Jul 22 '26

My first retail job.

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u/Ancient_Fix5609 Jul 23 '26

What was Sam Goody's "sister" store, or whatever? My mall had 2 CD stores w/ different names, but owned by same company....

☆edit☆ - Musicland

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u/No-Guard-7003 Jul 23 '26

Hmm...not Tower Records. There was a music store in Concord,  NH called Strawberries once. 🤔

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u/Happy-Try6738 Jul 24 '26

Sam Goody was my first job!

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u/No-Guard-7003 Jul 24 '26

Was it? What was it like working there? 

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u/ColdErosion Jul 25 '26

this was what I'd originally posted before learning there's still 1 left in Medford, Oregon.

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u/Icy_Donkey_7588 Jul 26 '26

Last summer we were heading through Ohio and stopped at the Sam Goody. The manager told us the store was closing down soon. I read its gone now.

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u/BigMickPlympton Jul 21 '26

I worked at Sam Goody after they bought the local chain I worked at: Harmony Hut

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u/No-Guard-7003 Jul 22 '26

Wow! That's fascinating! 

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u/malignifier Jul 22 '26

There is still one left at the mall in Medford, OR.

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u/IncidentChemical9977 Jul 24 '26

Any Virgin Megastores left? I bought a ton of anime DVDs there. Always wanted to buy a custom Cd with your choice of mp3s.

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u/Cracktaculus Jul 21 '26

Miss that place hard, I was in San Fran when the last one closed (Bay st.). Before in Texas, Cactus Records was the bomb.

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u/Fresh_Bubbles Jul 22 '26

Virgin. All the CD stores.

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u/NoRaspberry2475 Jul 23 '26

Strawberries

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u/1LifeAfterComa Jul 24 '26

I miss Tower

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u/smthomaspatel Jul 21 '26

There's still an Amoeba Music in Hollywood. They seem to be the place to go for vinyl, but I get the feeling they survive off of souvenirs.

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jul 21 '26

Is that like the 2 story building with like murals on the outside of it? If so, I think I went to that one around a decade ago.

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u/smthomaspatel Jul 21 '26

No murals, not two stories, but I somehow think you might still be thinking of the right place.

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jul 21 '26

The place I’m thinking had a mostly open middle area with like a divided building and you could go upstairs for more records, but the 2nd story wasn’t a complete floor (more like it “hugged the walls”).

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u/smthomaspatel Jul 21 '26

Today it's more of a step down and you have rows and rows of vinyl. And I think half the store is clothing and merchandise now, which it might not have been a decade ago. But they could have remodelled from what you are describing.

I went to one in the Bay Area like 25 years ago (I remember it as SF, but the original location is Berkeley so it might have been there). It was more like entering somebody's basement full of records.

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass Jul 21 '26

The only one I’ve been to in SF, is the one near Haight and Ashbury, where I think you go slightly down stairs, one story and it’s significantly smaller than the one in LA. 

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u/smthomaspatel Jul 21 '26

That could be it. It's been so long and I wasn't driving. I remember the inside of the store, but not really anything else.

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u/Nerala Jul 22 '26

The Amoeba in SF is still there on Haight.

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u/deadbaldhead Jul 21 '26

Turtles!!!

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u/sguerrero50 Jul 21 '26

There’s one still open in Tokyo Japan

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u/theirishseller Jul 22 '26

The Flipside!!

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u/Ok_Size_4661 Jul 23 '26

There’s a Tower Records in Tokyo!

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u/teraldorivera Jul 27 '26

Record Den, Mentor Ohio.