"For Your Entertainment" Movie and music store commonly found in malls.
http://www.fye.com/
Oh, OK - I've never heard of them - in Albuquerque, NM we had Suncoast, Sam Goody, The Warehouse, Media Play, Musicland, etc... as well as the wonderful Video Concepts way back in the day. Looking at FYE's website and entering the zip code for my dads house in Albuquerque where I grew up, I see that Sam Goody's is part of FYE and considered an FYE store.
I loved visiting my sisters in Southern California (Torrance & Hermosa Beach) every summer because I could go to Tower Records, Licorice Pizza Records, Ken Cranes LaserDisc store (which had the largest selection of LaserDisc's on the planet). After spending 3 months out there every year, I always ended up shipping several boxes of LD's and records home that I couldn't take on the plane with me. And when I got my first CD player (a Hitachi DA-1000) for Christmas 1983, I went crazy buying CD's too. (
I still have the very first CD I ever bought and its receipt - Billy Joel's The Nylon Curtain for $25.95, bought in August 1983 - yes, I didn't have a player yet!) I can't even imaging spending $26 for a CD now.
I had never heard of Camelot Music until I met my partner, who lived in St. Louis at the time and when I'd fly out and visit him we'd go LaserDisc shopping at Camelot - they always had discs for incredibly low prices - I remember getting the digital sound PCM re-pressing LaserDisc of "Queen: Greatest Flix" for $9.95 - it was brand new and had an SRP of $24.95 in Pioneer Video's latest catalog. And I got the digital sound re-pressing of the 8-inch 'Music Video' LD release of Madonna's first 4 videos - it was a disc that most LD collectors at the time didn't believe existed - Pioneer always showed it as "out of stock" in their main warehouse and no dealer could order it - nor were back-orders accepted. But there it was at Camelot for 10 bucks - and it had a $19.95 list to boot!
At Suncoast, which was never known for its low prices, I got the
Star Wars Special Edition AC-3 LaserDisc box set for $29.95... and It had a retail price of $124.98. I thought it was a mis-print because the discs had just been released to the home market, but Suncoast had 6 copies and all were priced the same - so I bought a copy. As I was being run up, I asked about the price and the sales guy told me they got them from a bank auction from a distributor that got foreclosed upon. I don't know why Suncoast decided to 'pass along the savings' since that wasn't really their method of doing business. But I was glad they did - I only wish now that eBay had been huge then - it was around, but I barely knew about it. Not that the set would be worth anything now, but it could have fetched quite good money in the early 2000's!