Musical Memories Records & Cd’s

I really wanted to leave with a crateful of awesome records that I snagged at a great price…
But I left empty handed.
Musical Memories is a nice record store with a moderate selection of tunes but there is nothing outstanding about this place.
As many of the more desirable titles are marked up and sold online, much of what remains in the store is nothing to right home about. America, Wham, that kind of thing.
Most of the titles are unmarked and are in the 4 – 9 dollar camp when asked.
This place isn’t just limited to rock. There’s some funk and soul too if you like to get down on that.
The service is quite friendly and if you’re on a specific quest, save yourself the dig and ask.

Not clean and organized, hit or miss, but you can find good stuff here. Blues, R&B, Soul, Country too. Owner will negotiate. Don’t listen to people who like REO Speedwagon.

Very unorganized.
You can’t find anything and the prices are way too high considering both the quality and lack of rarity of the records. I’ve shopped in here several times and never left feeling like it was a pleasant experience. The trade-​in rate is not very good (what used music shop is?), but it’s about the worst I’ve experienced. Every time I shop here, I only find run of the mill merchandise, nothing particularly rare or coveted that I just have to have. There’s a glut of average «top of the pops» stuff that I wouldn’t expect to find here, but that’s all I ever seem to see here. This shop has a mix of vinyl records and CDs, but focuses more on the vinyl, which is surging in popularity again these days.
I’m not impressed by the selection at all and it’s extremely difficult, if not downright impossible, to find anything specific. The best bet is to come in without any preconceived notions about what you want because chances are slim and none that you will find it if you focus on finding that one «special» thing. A little more organization would do wonders for the place.
If more than five people are in here shopping at once, it feels too crowded and people tend to «pile up» in one area and bump into each other.
The service is not what I would have expected from an independent business. Usually, with small, indie businesses, customer service is everything. Not here, at least not in my opinion. Ask a question, get a snarky answer in response. No thanks.
The place could stand a good cleaning. There is dust everywhere and I always wind up in a sneezing fit moments after stepping inside.

Musical Memories, like Dodds in Grand Rapids, is a throwback to an older type of record store. One run by an old man who thinks his records are worth a lot more than they actually are.
Musical Memories has a really solid selection of oldies 45s and some expensive, but in good condition, rare oldies LPs.
But the bulk of the store is shelf after shelf of poorly organized LPs that aren’t in that good of condition and cost way too much. Yeah, I’m going to pay 9 bucks for a beat up REO Speedwagon record. If you dig, you can find some serious gems here, but the guy will charge you an arm and a leg.
He also sells used CDs and offers to burn copies of the CDs for his customers for less than the price of the actual CD, which is ultra shady.