Needle Trax

Needle Trax is a music retailer in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Description
Needle Trax is a music store and is likely in competition with Vinyl Countdown, as they both sell vinyl records and cassette tapes.

It had two stores in Vice City in 1984, one in Downtown and another in the Vice Point Mall, Vice Point. In 1998, there was also one branch that operated in Portland View right next to TUBE restaurant in Liberty City.

The Vice Point Mall branch has a accessible interior, showing various displays of records being sold, a counter and posters for the band Prix.

By 1986 (the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City), both the store branches in Vice City have been taken over by other businesses. The Downtown store branch has become a Rock City location, while the Vice Point Mall branch has become a SALE location.

By 2001 (the setting of Grand Theft Auto III), branch of the store in Liberty City is closed and has become a branch for Classic Nails.

Trivia

 * The name of the business is a reference to the term needle tracks, which refers to the discolored marks on a heroin user's arm after the injection site becomes infected. It is also a reference to the "tracks", or grooves, on the surface of a vinyl record which the needle runs through.