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It's just a store that sells records, CDs and DVDs. Yet the Sam The Record Man outlet at Yonge and Dundas is a lot more than that. Like the CN Tower and City Hall, it seems to have become a de facto symbol of Toronto, one of those post card capturing photos every tourist has to take to capture the essence of the city. And that's why news of its closing is being taken so hard by those who used to or still do frequent the store.

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