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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Kazaa, Virgin Megastores, Amie Street, Elderly Instruments, Barnes & Noble, Record-Rama, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Record Bar, Inner Sanctum Records, Mandolin Brothers, Slackers CDs and Games, Cascio Interstate Music, Sweetwater Sound, Guitar Center, Spec's Music Inc., Sam Goody, House of Guitars, Ponte Music Company, Amro Music, Audimated, Music Forte, Newbury Comics, Harmony House, Leo Mintz, Princeton Record Exchange, Rasputin Music, Trans World Entertainment, Sam Ash, King Karol, Alibris, Amoeba Music, Slipped Disc Records, Cheapo, Electric Fetus, Oar Folkjokeopus, Ear X-tacy, F.y.e., Turtle's Records & Tapes, All Pro Sound, Hastings Entertainment, Music Millennium, J. W. Pepper & Son, Inc., Anthology Recordings, Gruhn Guitars, Waterloo Records, Louisiana Music Factory, Lobal Orning, Other Music, Aquarius Records, Jordan Kitts Music, First Act Guitar Studio, Jammyland, Mars Music, Vintage Vinyl, The Business, Camelot Music, Lark in the Morning, American Musical Supply, Schmitt Music, The Fifth Element, Musician's Friend, Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Atomic Records, Buegeleisen and Jacobson, Lancaster Music Company, Twist & Shout Records. Excerpt: Virgin Megastores is an international chain of record shops, founded by Sir Richard Branson on London's Oxford Street in early 1971. Virgin Megastores are best described today as entertainment retailers. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. The company expanded to hundreds of stores worldwide in the 1990s, but has lost a large number of stores in recent years, largely with the sale, and eventual closing, of the UK and US stores. Current operations are mainly in France, Australia and the Middle East, consisting of over 100 stores. Richard Branson & Nik Powell had initially run a small record shop called...