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From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
> Other than the usual mall suspects (Sam Goody/Musicland) and a few 
> holdover Coconuts, Tower is about it.  The big indie chain was Rose 
> Records, who went under after expanding just before the influx of 
> Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.

I was surprised to run across a holdover Coconuts -- complete with the 
trademark coconut-scented bags, which I hadn't seen...or, I guess, 
smelled...since I was in junior high, which was a very weird sensory 
flashback -- in a strip mall in Keene, New Hampshire last October.  I 
was equally surprised to learn that in fact, Coconuts is owned by the 
same company that owns Strawberries, of which there are a few 
straggling locations hereabouts.

S