During the early 1980s, I went there all the time. Before compact discs became the main format, I was buying cassettes all the time. As well as blank ones to tape off the radio.
Sometime in 1982, I picked up "Escape" by Journey in that store. I literally wore it out and eventually re-bought it on CD.
Forty years later, they are still playing the hell out of "Don't Stop Believing".
Yeah, the “Tape world” thing caught my eye too, especially being a hi-fi salesman between 1976 and 1983.
there was a SNL skit where they visit a tape store in a dying mall. The joke was that the store only specialized in the “sticky kind”, and not the magnetic kind.