Vinyl Stores
A list of the coolest vinyl shops around.
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Wax N Facts
Little Five Points - Atlanta, GA United StatesWax N Facts is the hub of the record collecting/making community in Atlanta. Walking into this dusty shot-gun style record store you become aware that the long-haired college age guy behind the counter is most likely in 3 or 4 bands himself and takes his vinyl very seriously. This is not the...
Holy Cow Records
Pike Place Market - Seattle, WA United StatesReader Suggested: A small, independent vinyl record store in the heart of the Pike Place Market, Seattle. One the the best selections of quality LPs and 45s in the city and reasonably priced. Friendly and knowledgeable service. Also stocks CDs and Video/DVDs. Something for everyone.
Good Records
East Village - New York, NY United StatesGood Records pretty well sums its up. There seem two be to approaches to vinyl shops: the records, records everywhere approach that requires patient digging or the filtered, hand-picked approach. Good Records stocks sought after, well taken care...
Recycled Records
Haight - San Francisco, CA United StatesSomething tells us that long after CDs take their place on the shelves of history, vinyl records will be alive and well. Recycled Records has been selling used vinyl since 1977 and today serves as a fascinating resource to collectors and passersby...
101 Music
North Beach - San Francisco, CA United StatesFor those who savor the hunt as much as the feast, 101 Music is the perfect music store. Nearly every square nanometer of the shop's two locations are replete with vinyl records spanning multiple genres. It's up to you to separate the...
101 Music
North Beach - San Francisco, CA United StatesFor those who savor the hunt as much as the feast, 101 Music is the perfect music store. Nearly every square nanometer of the shop's two locations are replete with vinyl records spanning multiple genres. It's up to you to separate the trash from the treasure, but if you do strike gold...
The Bookworks
Lakeview/Wrigleyville - Chicago, IL United StatesIn the shadow of historic Wrigley Fields, The Bookwooks offers other forms of history. Foremost are tens of thousands of books of the used and often rare variety with a focus on, what else, sports. Also around are bins of vinyl records, used CDs...
Academy Annex
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesNew York City rents don't really allow for those everything-under-the-sun record shops with hundred of thousands of records stacked every which way--and thank God for that. Instead there are shops like Academy Records, a more refined record...
Academy LPs
East Village - New York, NY United StatesNew York City rents don't really allow for those everything-under-the-sun record shops with hundred of thousands of records stacked every which way--and thank God for that. Instead there are shops like Academy Records, a more refined record...
Rotate This
West Queen West - Toronto, ON CanadaRotate this. That's an order. In a politically correct world where critisizing anything is anathema, Rotate This is CD/vinyl shopping with an opinion, an opinion apparent as much in the stock as in the staff. What you'll find is an...
Jive Time
Fremont - Seattle, WA United StatesWe wouldn't necessarily know a rare import record from a poke in the eye, but we know enough to recognize Jive Time as the fine record shop that it is. Maybe it's the abundance of record geeks, thumbing through the collections with...
Jive Time
Capitol Hill - Seattle, WA United StatesWe wouldn't necessarily know a rare import record from a poke in the eye, but we know enough to recognize Jive Time as the fine record shop that it is. Maybe it's the abundance of record geeks, thumbing through the collections with purpose. Or the overflowing 99-cent bin, that keeps us...
Sonic Boom
Fremont - Seattle, WA United StatesSonic Boom is the kind of independent record store you would hope to see in Seattle. The cozy (relative to mega-stores) spaces house a little bit of everything. You'll find some pop, but that's among a nice contingent of indie rock and...
Bop Street Records
Ballard - Seattle, WA United StatesBop Street Records sort of sneaks up on you--walking the tree-lined streets of a neighborhood known for furniture and clothing stores, you see a relatively non-descript warehouse. Peer inside the cavernous space and behold thousands and thousands...
Antiques at Pike Place
Pike Place Market - Seattle, WA United StatesFor the untrained, shopping for antiques can be a stressful experience, from digging through piles and squeezing through aisles to recognizing real from reproduction and getting the right price. Antiques at Pike Place makes shopping for antiques...
Abodeon
Porter Square - Cambridge, MA United StatesEmphasizing the marvelous in the mundane, Abodeon presents a collection of well-designed home furniture and accessories spanning continents and decades. Most items come with a short description stating what you're looking at and why...
Amoeba Music
Haight - San Francisco, CA United StatesFor anyone who doubts for a second the ability of independent music stores to survive against the corporate megastore witness Amoeba. The huge, vibrant record store stocks thousands of new and used CDs and vinyl (including tons of imports), DVDs,...
Amoeba Music
Hollywood - Los Angeles, CA United StatesFor anyone who doubts for a second the ability of independent music stores to survive against the corporate megastore witness Amoeba. The huge, vibrant record store stocks thousands of new and used CDs and vinyl (including tons of imports), DVDs, posters and more, and they do it all without...
Amoeba Music
Telegraph - Berkeley, CA United StatesFor anyone who doubts for a second the ability of independent music stores to survive against the corporate megastore witness Amoeba. The huge, vibrant record store stocks thousands of new and used CDs and vinyl (including tons of imports), DVDs,...
Rasputin Music
Vallejo - Vallejo, CA United StatesIn lieu of the sanitized, homogenized look of corporate record stores, Rasputin Music prefers something a little more interesting. Posters, stickers and flyers cover the walls. Black shelves house new and used CDs of all genres, along with an ever-growing collection of DVDs. A vinyl section...