52 stores · curated ORBIS register
American record shopping still believes in the physical hunt, label headquarters included. Third Man Records runs Jack White's label headquarters in Nashville, complete with novelty lounge and live recording booth. Poo-Bah Records still buys and sells and trades vinyl on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. Strictly Discs pairs new and used vinyl with hi-fi equipment sales and repair, plus weekly used-LP drops. The bin you came for deserves digging before the one the crowd found. A grading note repays a second reading; the sleeve tells only half the story.
Guadalupe (The Drag), Austin, Texas
Tied to the Antone's blues nightclub, this independently owned Austin shop specializes in vinyl, CDs and accessories. Its catalog leans toward blues and local Austin and Texas artists.
Best for Blues vinyl and local Texas records
Austin / United States
Set inside Drinks Lounge on East Cesar Chavez in Austin, this boutique record shop stocks new and used vinyl across indie, punk, rock, and rap, with staff picks curated by name. The shop doubles as a listening room, hosting release parties and live sessions filmed for its own YouTube channel.
Best for Vinyl-records, music, record-store
Baytown, Texas
Evolution on East Fayle has sold vinyl and CDs for decades — a Record Store Day shop — and the same room now holds skateboards, tattoo supplies and smoking gear.
Best for Records, physical music and skate goods
Baytown, Texas
Jared and Debra Fulleylove bought Hall's Carpet Haus — on Pruett since 1989 — and reopened it as Fulleylove Flooring in 2022. The showroom samples hardwood, vinyl and carpet and will measure at the house.
Best for Flooring-material comparison and project consultation
Baytown, Texas
Vera's Antiques on North Main is a packed rooms-and-aisles shop: toys, vinyl, furniture, pictures and the usual small antiques.
Best for Antiques, collectibles and unpredictable one-off finds
13026 Highway 9, Boulder Creek
A vintage shop at 13026 Highway 9 dealing in restored mid-century-modern stereo equipment and vinyl records. It also stocks vintage clothing and locally made apparel.
Best for Restored stereos, vinyl and vintage apparel
Wicker Park, Chicago
Chicago's vinyl institution — three shops of new and used records where High Fidelity was filmed and where the city still crate-digs daily.
Best for Chicago’s essential record stores
Bucktown / Online
Torn Light Records began in Northern Kentucky in 2014, spent a decade in Cincinnati and moved to Chicago in January 2024. The Bucktown shop at 1855 N Milwaukee carries new and used records alongside books and print, and buys collections of any size.
Best for New and used records, tapes, CDs, books and zines
Gratiot / Eastern Market, Detroit
Across from Eastern Market at 1464 Gratiot Ave, Peoples Records deals in new and used vinyl weighted toward Soul, Jazz, Motown and 45s, including many local artists. The shop also houses the MAHS Museum devoted to Michigan music history.
Best for Soul, Motown and 45 vinyl
Broad Ripple, Indianapolis
Indy CD & Vinyl moved from Salt Lake City to Broad Ripple Avenue in 2001 and has bought, sold, and traded new and used records, CDs, and turntables from that storefront ever since. Founder Rick Zeigler sold the shop in 2013 to longtime manager Annie Skinner and her husband, and it now holds membership in the Coalition of Independent Music Stores.
Best for New and used vinyl, local music
La Porte, Texas
Dimensions on West Main in La Porte calls itself Houston's first genre comic store: weekly comics with a pull box, plus books, records, movies and collectibles in a deeper shop than the storefront suggests.
Best for Comics And Collectibles And Music in La Porte.
La Porte, Texas
Kelley Price opened Junk Junkies on West Main in August 2013 after a season of free haul-off. The room runs art, furniture, records, kitchenware and project pieces; what she does not sell she donates.
Best for Resale And Projects in La Porte.
South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California
Thalia Surf Shop has stocked handcrafted boards from shapers like Alex Knost, Gato Heroi, and Liddle Surfboards since 2001, alongside a curated run of vintage-inflected apparel, vinyl, and surf ephemera. The shop leans into a retro, artistic aesthetic that sets it apart from mass-market surf retail.
Best for Handcrafted surfboards and retro apparel
Los Angeles / 6200 Hollywood Blvd
Amoeba Music began on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley in 1990. A San Francisco store followed in 1997 in a former bowling alley on Haight Street, and Hollywood opened in 2001. The Hollywood store moved to 6200 Hollywood Boulevard and reopened on 1 April 2021 after a year closed by the pandemic. All three stores sell new and used vinyl as well as CDs and film, buy collections daily and host free in-store performances.
Best for Losing an afternoon in the deepest used-vinyl bins on earth.
Amoeba Music was born in 1990 on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, where the original store still stands at 2455 Telegraph Ave. In 1997 the company crossed the Bay to open in San Francisco at 1855 Haight Street. That store occupies a converted bowling alley at the eastern edge of Golden Gate Park. The Hollywood store opened in November 2001, occupying a full city block on Sunset Boulevard. In February 2020 Amoeba announced a move to 6200 Hollywood Boulevard, at the corner of Argyle Avenue. The pandemic then closed the old store a month later. The new Hollywood location opened on 1 April 2021 after a year-long closure, with a line around the block on opening day. Across all three stores Amoeba stocks hundreds of thousands of new and used titles, from vinyl LPs and CDs to DVDs and Blu-rays. Posters and tees sit alongside, and the trade counters buy collections daily. The stores double as venues. San Francisco has hosted free in-store shows by Sonic Youth, Sharon Jones and Elliott Smith. Hollywood has staged performances and signings by Stevie Nicks, Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Costello and Lana Del Rey. The long-running video series What's In My Bag? now has an audio-only podcast version. Amoeba describes itself as independent, like the single-celled organism it is named after, absorbing influences as it grows and changes.
Los Angeles / United States
Poo Bah Record Shop on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena buys, sells, and trades vinyl, open Tuesday through Sunday. Beyond the counter it also sells records online through its eBay and Discogs storefronts.
Best for Buying, selling, and trading vinyl on East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena
Los Angeles / United States
Billed as California's largest new and used book and record store, The Last Bookstore fills a landmark space in downtown Los Angeles and hosts events from author signings to film screenings. It sells new, used, and rare books plus vinyl in person and through its online shop, and now runs additional locations in Studio City, Montrose, and Honolulu.
Best for Bookstore, used-books, vinyl
1575 SW 1st Street, Miami, FL 33135 / Miami / United States
José Orlando Padrón opened Padrón Cigars in Miami on 8 September 1964; Cigar Aficionado records the Little Havana house and the current headquarters.
Best for Miami cigars from a Little Havana house founded in 1964.
5505 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33137 / Miami / United States
Opened March 2005 by Lauren Lolo Reskin and Sara Yousuf; Miami New Times prints the Little Haiti door at 5505 NE Second Ave after the 2007 move from Edgewater.
Best for A Little Haiti shop opened in March 2005.
9274 SW 40th Street, Miami, FL 33165 / Miami / United States
Richard Ulloa founded Yesterday & Today on 20 June 1981; Miami New Times gives the Bird Road shop address as 9274 SW 40th St.
Best for A Bird Road shop founded in 1981.
Missoula / United States
A 25,000-square-foot Missoula institution since 1982, packed with records, gifts, apparel, candles and oddities across three locations. The flagship on Blaine Street sells in person and online, with a separate vinyl site for new releases.
Best for Gifts, Music, Records
Rosebank
Independent record store in East Nashville with new and used vinyl, live in-store performances.
Best for New and used vinyl plus live in-store performances in East Nashville.
Nashville, Tennessee
Third Man Records is a Jack White's record store, label headquarters, and novelty lounge with a live recording booth. At Nashville, Tennessee, the range centers on jack White's label headquarters, novelty lounge, and live recording booth.
Best for Jack White's label headquarters, novelty lounge, and live recording booth
Fishtown, Philadelphia
Milkcrate Cafe is a vinyl record boutique and cafe with locations at 400 E. Girard Ave in Fishtown and 4435 Baltimore Ave in West Philadelphia. The shop stocks thousands of hand-picked new and vintage rock, soul and jazz vinyl records alongside turntables and receivers, and brews Caffe Umbria coffee.
Best for Vinyl records and coffee
Phoenix
Bookmans Entertainment Exchange is Arizona's long-running used bookstore and media exchange, trading in secondhand books, CDs, vinyl, video games, and collectibles. The Phoenix location hosts live in-store events promoted on its own Bookmans Phoenix pages, alongside an online storefront for browsing inventory.
Best for Used Books, Media, Games, Trade Store
Portland / United States
Jackpot Records has sold new and used vinyl, CDs and collectibles from its Hawthorne Boulevard storefront in Portland since 1997, alongside running its own reissue label. The shop ships nationwide with flat-rate shipping and offers free local pickup.
Best for Music, Vinyl Records
Eastside
Independent Portland record store opened March 15, 1969 by Don and Laureen McLeod with Dan and Patty Lissy on the city's east side. Manager since 1984 Terry Currier bought it from the McLeod estate in 1996; it is now the oldest, largest record shop in the Pacific Northwest.
Best for New vinyl, used records and turntables
Music Millennium opened on March 15, 1969, founded by Don and Laureen McLeod together with Dan and Patty Lissy on Portland's east side. The store grew alongside the city's independent music scene for decades; at its peak the McLeods also ran a second, northwest Portland location and a dedicated classical annex next door called Classical Millennium, which opened in 1977. Terry Currier joined as an employee and became the store's manager in 1984. When founder Don McLeod died in 1996, Currier bought the business from his estate, becoming owner. Currier is also credited with coining "Keep Portland Weird," a phrase that spread beyond the shop to become a civic rallying slogan for the city. Under his stewardship Music Millennium held on as other independent record stores across the country closed, building a reputation as the oldest continuously operating record store in the Pacific Northwest. It stocks new and used vinyl, CDs, and other physical formats, and has long hosted in-store performances by touring and local musicians. In February 2026, with Currier having recently turned 70, the store's ownership publicly began searching for a successor to take over the business rather than sell to developers, having turned down such offers repeatedly over the years. The store's east-side building remains its anchor location.
Richmond
Green Apple Books is an independent San Francisco bookstore founded in 1967 by Richard Savoy on Clement Street. It has since grown into three sister stores, still majority book-focused despite selling records and gifts.
Best for Independent books on Clement Street since 1967
Green Apple Books began in 1967, when 25-year-old Richard Savoy — an Army veteran with a radio-technician job at United Airlines but no bookselling experience — took out a credit union loan and leased a storefront in a pre-1906 building on Clement Street, in San Francisco's Richmond District. He stocked it with used books, comics, and National Geographic back issues, and the shop grew from there: doubling in width over the years, adding a mezzanine and a second floor, and in 1996 acquiring its neighbor of twenty years, Revolver Records, which added new and used music until that annex closed in 2021.
Savoy sold the business gradually starting in 1999 to three longtime employees — Kevin Hunsanger, Kevin Ryan, and Pete Mulvihill — a buyout structured to run over a decade so he could mentor the new owners while spreading the cost of the inventory. Hunsanger sold his shares in 2018; Ryan and Mulvihill still run the store. Despite the vinyl, magazines, and gift items on the shelves, more than 85% of Green Apple's sales are still books.
The original Clement Street shop has since been joined by two sister stores under the same ownership: Books on the Park on 9th Avenue, and Browser Books on Fillmore Street — all three hosting regular author events and school and community fundraisers.
Nags Head / United States
Abbi's Teas on the South Croatan Highway in Nags Head trades as a loose leaf tea and record shop.
Best for Loose-leaf tea, and records
115 E. State St, Downtown Ithaca, NY
This downtown shop stocks both new and used books and shares its building with Angry Mom Records, a vinyl, cassette, and comics shop. Members of the PM Press book club get 20% off in-store purchases, reflecting its focus on independent and small-press titles.
Best for New and used books downtown
Old Bisbee (Convention Center)
An independent shop in the Old Bisbee Convention Center stocking new and used books, vinyl records, and instruments such as guitars, ukuleles, and flutes alongside art supplies and games. It has been voted best or second-best specialty store in Bisbee every year since 2020.
Best for Books, vinyl, and instruments
East Main Street, downtown, Durham, NC
A Durham record store and internationally known dealer trading in soul, jazz, rock, and hip hop vinyl since 2010. Operating from 117 E. Main Street, it adds fresh inventory weekly and buys and consigns records for collectors worldwide.
Best for Soul and jazz vinyl
Little Five Points
Anchoring Little Five Points since 1991, Criminal Records stocks new and used vinyl alongside comics. The independent shop hosts in-store performances that tie it to the neighborhood's music scene.
Best for Vinyl records, comics and local-scene music discovery
Pleasant Hill / United States
Friends Book Store is a nonprofit used bookstore in the Casa Del Sol Shopping Center in Pleasant Hill, selling books, CDs, vinyl records, and board games with proceeds supporting the Pleasant Hill and Contra Costa County libraries. The store is open daily and also sells inventory through its online shop.
Best for Bookstore, Used Books, Nonprofit
Memphis / United States
Both a record label and a retail store at 2152 Young Ave in Memphis, Goner carries thousands of new and used LPs and hosts the yearly Gonerfest. Diggers shop in person or order online, and the shop also buys record collections.
Best for New and used LPs, label releases, and Gonerfest culture
Oklahoma City / Online
Founded in 2003, Guestroom is an Oklahoma independent record store trading in new and used vinyl and CDs across its Norman, OKC, and Edmond shops. Dig through the crates in person or shop the online store and Discogs listings.
Best for New and used vinyl and CDs across Norman, OKC, and Edmond
Greenville, SC
Founded in 1975 and still led by founder Gene, Horizon is a rare surviving independent record store now marking fifty years. It carries new and used vinyl and CDs across jazz, bluegrass, hip-hop, classical, reggae, and more, and buys collections.
Best for Fifty-year heritage vinyl and personal curation
258 E 13th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon
Open on East 13th Avenue since 1971, this shop carries new and used vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and Blu-rays across every genre. Staff recommendations, replacement turntable needles, and gig posters round out the stock.
Best for New and used vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and turntable needles
Ninth Street, Durham, NC
A record store and bar on Ninth Street selling new and used vinyl spanning classic rock, hip hop, jazz, and funk. The 718 9th Street shop pairs crate-digging with North Carolina craft beer on tap and buys vinyl collections from the public.
Best for Used vinyl and a beer
Downtown Jackson, Mississippi
OffBeat sells vinyl records and comic books from a storefront on North State Street in downtown Jackson, run by owner Phillip Rollins. The shop is a fixture referenced in local guides to Jackson's independent record-store and comics history.
Best for Vinyl records and comic books
Richmond, Virginia
This long-running independent record store in Carytown stocks new and used vinyl. In-store events keep the shop tied to Richmond's music community.
Best for Vinyl records and in-store events
Davenport, Iowa
An independent record shop at 311 East 2nd Street stocking more than 30,000 used and new LPs across rock, jazz, soul, hip hop and punk. The store also sells vintage stereo gear, effects pedals and amplifiers for collectors and players.
Best for Used vinyl and vintage audio gear
Northside
A Northside independent record shop opened in 1999 by brothers Darren and Jim Blase, packed with new and used vinyl, CDs and local releases. The store doubles as a record label and reissue house documenting Cincinnati music.
Best for New and used vinyl and local records
Memphis / United States
A Memphis fixture for over 30 years, Shangri-La Records deals in LPs, 45s, CDs and local memorabilia with a deep Memphis music section. Records are sold at the shop and online through its cart and Discogs storefront.
Best for Records, vinyl, memorabilia
Madison / United States
Independent since 1988 on Madison's Monroe Street, Strictly Discs pairs new and used vinyl, CDs, and cassettes with hi-fi equipment sales and repair, and buys collections outright. A 600-plus fresh-used LP drop lands every Friday at 10 a.m. for its members' record club.
Best for New/used vinyl, hi-fi equipment sales and repair, weekly used-LP drops
Fondren, Jackson, Mississippi
The End of All Music JXN opened in Jackson's Fondren neighborhood in October 2021 as the second location of the independent Oxford, Mississippi record store. The shop stocks new and used vinyl and fulfills online orders through its own storefront.
Best for New and used vinyl in Fondren
Franklin
The Factory at Franklin is a former industrial complex containing separate shops, restaurants and event spaces. It is a multi-tenant destination rather than one merchant, so individual doors need distinct records.
Best for Shops, restaurants, and event spaces inside a former Franklin stove factory
Downtown (11th & Idaho)
The Record Exchange has stocked vinyl, CDs and turntables as Idaho's largest independent music store since 1977. Its downtown Boise shop pairs an espresso bar with free in-store performances and artist meet-and-greets.
Best for Vinyl records and espresso in downtown Boise
The Record Exchange traces to 1977, when Michael Bunnell, recovering from a logging injury in McCall, Idaho, used his settlement money to open a record store on the Boise Bench with business partner Al Benton -- the initial inventory was largely Bunnell's own vinyl collection, and the idea was modeled on the Tower Records he'd grown up visiting in Sacramento. The shop moved the following year to the Hitchcock Building at 11th and Idaho, and its ownership shifted repeatedly over the following decades: Bunnell bought out Benton in 1981, later partnered with Kathleen O'Brien (who ran an adjacent poster shop) and merged the two businesses, then bought out O'Brien in 1992 alongside his wife and business partner Jil Sevy. Bunnell and Sevy bought the building outright in 1996. After 44 years under Bunnell's ownership, The Record Exchange changed hands to new owners in 2021, who have kept the format intact -- new and used vinyl, CDs, and turntables alongside Downtown Boise's first espresso bar. The shop still hosts in-store performances and concerts, continuing a role in Boise's music culture that predates almost every other business of its kind in the city.
Willamette Street, South Eugene, Oregon
This South Eugene shop on Willamette Street shelves more than 30,000 new and used titles alongside vinyl and rotating work by local artists. It doubles as a performance space, having hosted thousands of readings, concerts, and workshops over two decades.
Best for Used books and community events
Tsunami Books is an independent, locally owned bookstore at 2585 Willamette Street in South Eugene, Oregon. Its hand-picked stock runs to over 30,000 used and new books. Cards and postcards sit alongside a small collection of vinyl LPs and rotating art and crafts from the local community. Many of the shelves and fixtures come from recycled sources, including reclaimed bleacher boards from more than 20 school gymnasiums across the Northwest. Over its years on Willamette Street the shop has hosted more than 3,000 community activities. These range from author events and writers' workshops to poetry slams and concerts, and once a wedding. Scott Landfield has been a worker and owner of Tsunami Books for 29 years. He came to Oregon in 1978 to plant trees and planted over two million of them across a 20-year career. Eugene Weekly reported in 2021 that the store had started a publishing arm, Tsunami Press, formed in July 2021 with editors Steve Ellerhoff and Valerie Ihsan. Its first title was Ken Babbs' Cronies, a memoir of adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead. After thirty years of paying rent, the shop is now asking supporters to help it buy the property. New titles are discounted and orders ship free anywhere in the United States.
Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City metro)
Vinyl Renaissance stocks more than 50,000 records, CDs, and reel-to-reel tapes alongside turntables and amplifiers from brands like Yamaha and Rega, billing itself as the largest independent record and audio store in the country. Seven in-store listening rooms let shoppers audition equipment before buying, a holdover from its roots as a hi-fi shop.
Best for Vinyl records, turntables and hi-fi equipment
Little Five Points
Open in Little Five Points since 1976, Wax n Facts is an Atlanta record store. The independent shop carries deep catalogs of new and used vinyl for dedicated diggers.
Best for Used and rare vinyl, deep-catalog record digging
Downtown, College Ave, Athens, GA
Trading since the 1970s, Wuxtry deals in new and used vinyl and rare records. It holds a place in Athens music lore as the shop where R.E.M.'s Peter Buck once worked.
Best for New and used vinyl, rare records
Boise
Wylie Records is a small independent shop dealing in vinyl LPs and vintage LaserDiscs, with used and collectible pressings across many genres. The store also stages live music, doubling as a performance space for local acts.
Best for Collectible vinyl and LaserDiscs
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