The Music Box Record Exchange

Music Box ad, Nexus 1993

The Music Box was first located in "The Marketplace", an area at the south end of Victoria St where "the Outback" now stands. It later moved to 113 Alexandra Street, near the corner of Collingwood St, where ChiChi Deluxe now operates.

The Music Box sold second-hand vinyl, tapes and CDs. The owner of the Music Box had a reputation as being a bit miserly; nearly every record in the store was inevitably labelled as a "rarity" and as being in "excellent condition". The Music Box was the last of Hamilton's old school record exchanges to close (see Victoria Street Record Exchange and Hamilton Record Exchange), but it was also much younger. It was relocated to Napier in the early 2000s.