Just across Route 6 from Viewmont Mall, in the Fashion Mall plaza at 237 Scranton Carbondale Highway, Gallery of Sound’s Dickson City store gives the greater Scranton area a full service record shop within easy reach of the highway corridor connecting Scranton to Clarks Summit and the rest of Lackawanna County. Like its sister location in Wilkes-Barre Township, the store trades in new and used vinyl records, CDs, and music merchandise, with a catalog spanning current chart releases alongside classic rock, country, hip hop, and reissues that draw collectors hunting for out of print pressings. The shop regularly stocks new arrivals from major touring and recording artists, keeping its bins current for casual browsers as much as for regulars who track weekly restocks.
Beyond records on the shelf, Gallery of Sound has built a reputation across its Northeastern Pennsylvania locations for treating the stores as more than a retail counter. The chain hosts in-store performances and signing events tied to new album releases, giving Scranton area fans a rare chance to meet touring musicians without leaving the region, and its release-day culture keeps the Dickson City store tied into the broader independent record store scene that has grown around events like Record Store Day. For shoppers who grew up buying music at a mall record store and watched most of that format disappear, a Gallery of Sound location surviving and still doing in-store events in a shopping plaza across from a regional mall is itself a notable piece of local retail history.
The Dickson City store can be reached at (570) 969-0778 for questions about current stock, special orders, or upcoming in-store events, and its Fashion Mall location puts it within a short drive of most of the Scranton and Dickson City retail corridor, making it an easy stop to pair with a trip to the surrounding shopping plaza. Customers browsing for new releases, classic vinyl reissues, or used records to fill out a collection will find a store built around the kind of deep, rotating inventory that online retailers rarely replicate, since much of what comes through the door arrives via trade-ins and local collections rather than a standardized wholesale catalog.
For anyone in the Scranton, Dickson City, or Clarks Summit area looking for a real record store experience rather than a big box music aisle, Gallery of Sound’s Fashion Mall location on Route 6 offers new and used vinyl, CDs, and music merchandise alongside artist signings and release events that keep the shop connected to both its longtime regulars and a newer generation of vinyl collectors. In short, the Dickson City Gallery of Sound is a Route 6 destination for buying, selling, and discovering music across genres, distinguished by its in-store artist events and a constantly turning over selection of new and secondhand vinyl.
