Free Record Shop was a chain of home entertainment stores selling products such as CDs, DVDs and video games, founded by Hans Breukhoven.

It owned the entertainment products retail chain vanLeest, an Amsterdam-based flagship entertainment store called FAME, a gamestore chain called GameMania and several Build-a-Bear Workshop stores.

In March 2008 the company announced that they had sold off the Norwegian and Finnish operations to GameStop, in order to concentrate on the Benelux market.

[2] On 24 May 2013 staff and personnel were informed that Free Record Shop had declared bankruptcy.

On 22 April 2014 Free Record Shop was finally declared bankrupt.