Records

Yikes, this place is a mess. Disorganized, dingy, boxes of stuff everywhere, missing ceiling tiles. Looks more like an abandoned attic than a store. If you really like vinyl this place might be worth a look, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

This place is absolute garbage. Just about everything they have for sale, you could find at a thrift store. In fact, the average thrift store is cleaner than this dump. The only thing I ever found here that I considered buying was a Stevie Nicks poster that didn’t include a price tag. The clerk looked it up and tried to sell it to me for $ 30. I walked away laughing and never came back. Worst record store I’ve ever been to.

Great place to find some quality records on the cheap. It’s a bit messy and disorganized, but that’s part of the charm for me. I like getting my hands dirty and crawling around on the floor. Sometimes it’s hit or miss, but that’s the way she goes. It’s a good place to go if you have at least an hour to kill because there is lots and lots to see. I rarely walk out of there empty handed.

If you’ve got the time to sift through the seemingly endless vinyl this place offers, you’ll find some gems on the cheap. Found a mint copy of Sandinista! with all the goodies and was given a $ 5 discount on the spot. I shall return.

Lost some of it’s location compared to when it was on K Street. It was featured in the movie ‘Scratch’ and was also featured on DJ Shadow album artwork and visuals at his show. Lots of vinyl with some very unique and rare albums.

Dig this record store.

I actually cried when I left this store. For some reason I was feeling very nostalgic this day.
When I walked in I was hit with that really great musty smell, that old basement smell and I instantly got excited. It was my first time here and I had no idea that I had walked into a legitimate RECORD store (duh, right?)! It seems silly that I don’t currently own a record player but I am collecting old records until I find a good one. I was happy to see that these records were mostly original and old school. I picked up the Everly Brothers Catalog with all of my favorite songs, Phil Everly passed away on Jan 3. They literally had everything: children’s records (my grandma actually used to play them for me and my brother), jazz, country, 80s, metal, punk, classic rock, everything!
It didn’t seem that there were too many people browsing, I guess one dude was looking for electronica, but really no one else. I definitely want to come back in the near future, they had a lot of good stuff. I also feel that it is important to support local small businesses. I wish I could have met the owner, he seems like he would be someone with great passion for music and records. This place is a gem. You should go if you’re a record enthusiast.

Not sure what to really give this place. It has an amazing vinyl records collection (the best out of all the places in downtown Sacramento and Elk Grove that I went to), but it was just so disorganized, dirty, and smelled funny.
My bf is trying to rekindle his love and use for his old records and wanted to add more to his collection. We hit up this place and were pleasantly surprised by the vinyl collection. I just could not get over how disorganized the place was. Records were just thrown in random places. Even if it was supposed to be alphabetized and by genre, I saw a ton of records that were misplaced. Empty boxes and broken records were everywhere. The employees weren’t helpful whatsoever. And on top of that, there was a cat wandering around the store, purring and rubbing itself and my bf and me (the only customers in the store). I’m not a big fan of cats and my bf is allergic, so it made the experience pretty uncomfortable.
I would really give this place 1 star because of the experience, but since it really does have an amazing record collection, I had to give it 3. We will be back because we are that desperate to find some classics, but I’m bathing and sanitizing right after!

Picked up a ton of Dylan records in great condition. They don’t have a huge Jazz selection but what they do have is pretty top-​notch. Owner was super cool and even threw in a free mispriced record for me!

Plenty of posters that can make it worth your time, if you look. There are quite a few posters from the 80’s, but the condition isn’t always the best. Went in with my uncle the other day, we bought only one poster for his friend. He went back today and bought several more. We went through all the .95 cent records, some were okay but others were missing their sleeves or scratched up.
Their Prince section was pretty small but a bit overpriced; you might have a different experience looking through other artists or the CD’s. The movies are reasonable for the price, and the highlight was a cat wandering in the store who let me pet him for a while. :) It’s typically pretty quiet, with only a few people in the store at a time, so be prepared to do some searching.

Literally across the street from Tower Café. It’s a nice place to go if you’re trying to get that obscure DVD or CD that you just have to have in your collection. This place also buys and sells consoles, games, controllers etc etc.
The selection is huge, I was pleasantly surprised. They literally have rows and rows of CD’s of every imaginable genre. The DVD selection is pretty decent as well and there is even a small Adult section cornered off in the store LOL
Oh and they sell a good amount of posters as well.

Love this place! Spent nearly $ 300 and they allowed me to «pop a squat» in the isle and proceeded to pull every crate filled 45s out and run through them all! The V.I.P. treatment, and I’m no V.I.P!!!

I have been here many times in the past and have felt that this place deserves 5 stars. The last time was kind of weird. I thought some of the records were a bit over-​priced which wasn’t the usual here. Then, I overheard the staff talking about how they were checking record prices against eBay and Gemm. BINGO! That is a bit of a problem as there is some really unrealistic pricing on both sites. Also, they are selling online. Not too cool as I have seen places go down in flames from cherry-​picking the music selection to sell online. Let’s hope this isn’t the case.

Cool records!

Some of the prices were good but they were playing some very strange high note music that was very specific to a certain kind of listener. My group had 3 people and we had to leave after a couple of minutes because the music was just too annoying.

Records carries just what its name so directly refers to — and lots of them. I have a small record collection and I occasionally peruse the aisles here for new finds. Records’ staff really knows what I like, as they have healthy sections devoted to any and all types of music. All the records are regularly sifted through and alphabetized. It makes me feel as if they really know their music and their stock, and I like that.
They also carry DVDs, VHSs and (sound of record scratch) 8-​tracks! So naturally I made a visit here when I sought 8-​tracks for an upcoming party I was putting together. They had boxes and boxes of these antiquated gems. While I never plan on listening to them, I do enjoy looking at all the yellowing old artwork on the labels.
Thank you Records for offering what most other music stores don’t!

Family and I stopped in here on a whim while driving through Sacramento. It was well worth leaving the freeway for – a fairly convenient stop for road-​trippers on the 99. We were thrilled to walk in and see the enormous volume of inventory… SO MANY RECORDS!!! *drool* If you are looking for a good crate-​dig, this is the place.
Be warned, though, that shopping here is akin to finding your vinyl at the thrift store. Many of the records are in less-​than-​stellar condition, and you will need to carefully check each one. We had to put back several finds because of damage to the LP. The upside, though, is that the prices reflect this… VERY reasonable! On average these records were priced $ 2-​$ 3 less than our local record store, AND we got a discount for the holiday weekend! In the end, we left with a respectable pile of records for less than we expected to spend… which totally makes up for the overall condition of the records.
Oh, and there’s some DVDs and CDs, too, but who cares?
Friendly staff and pile of records… we will definitely be back the next time we pass through Sacramento.

I loved the boys here. They’re are possibly the sweetest bunch of record store runners ever, as well as their shop cat «Joey…(?) -(See photo!) He’s sweetest ball of purr purr ever. I had fun spending part of the afternoon browsing through numerous 3 dollar DVDs, Cd’s (newer!) and listening to some pretty rad music playing in the store. There are sooo many record here– its exhausting… I could get lost for hours. Also sold here are vintage game systems and games– for pretty rabid prices too! If you know your stuff– I found a few rare Beatles albums… not always in mint– but the price calls my name, and I can make a sweet piece of art out of them (the not so rare) I’m pretty thrilled we stumbled in here today, it being so close to home… I think I’m gonna have to break down and hook myself up with a good record player soon… Ill be back.

First an ode to vinyl.
Vinyl is the only real way you can truly experience recorded music. I’m sure there is some reel-​to-​reel basement guy out there about to write a rebuttal on his typewriter, but I stand by vinyl.
Vinyl involves every sense. The feel of an album has a sense of weight and importance and a bit mystery. Album art is just that, art on an album. Just not the same on a CD or that tiny little picture on your iPod/​iTunes. And the sound. The sound of vinyl is enjoyable to the ear unlike the compressed stuff we now throw into our ear holes.
The most important piece of the album is how it is experienced. You put it on and you listen. It unfolds like chapters in a book, moving from song-​to-​song the way the artist meant. No shuffle, no random tracks, no Beatles followed by B-52’s followed by Beyonce. You just listen and you hear and you learn the tunes as you hear them again and again. Albums cost $ 15 a pop new. This is something you carefully select and then go home and listen to again and again.
Digital music has its advantages, but the biggest loss is a killer. Music is simply consumed these days. It has no real value as it’s grabbed for cheap or free off the internet. It’s thrown into you iPod and gets right in line with every other tune. And you listen to it once or twice or maybe three times and then you move on. MP3’s are one night stands while vinyl is that amazing weekend away (or inside), the kind that you always refer to and measure against.
Turntables are making a comeback. If you love music but have never heard an album, hurry-​go-​now. If you’re older than 35 but have forgotten the charm, make a little trip back.
Records is combo old time record store, flea market, and treasure hunt. And it is a ⁴⁄₅ star spot if you have at any time in your life played the vinyl. This is really the way music was meant to be consumed.

There are certain paths in life that I could have gone down – I could easily have become the girl who manages the guest list, shows up and cheers and wears trendy outfits and dances a little too close to the DJ turntables. That’s a life that makes many happy, but it closes out so many possibilities, among them the ability to truly fall in love with music.
Chicks who choose to avoid the groupie life will discover that there’s so much more cool stuff going on in actually being a DJ, and what’s better, you can work on stuff based on ability instead of having to pretend that you can work on physical beauty as if it were an ability. You can’t. Physical beauty is physical, and it’s based entirely on what other people think about your looks, so that’s why groupies and models flip out over strange things. They have an alternate version of reality.
I like the record stores who are struggling to get by. I love all the cool MP3-​style sites and I love technology, so I am not dissing those places. I’ve listened to my share of music on Pandora.
However, the really best kinds of record stores have a combination of intelligence, kookiness and obsessive love for music that is the special sauce that turns even the most naïve but willing acolyte into a believer. This place has it. I didn’t want to mention it, but I realized that all the DJs I would know never hit Sacramento due to economics, culture, etc. so this location is safe for now. Oh, if only they knew!
The owner knows his stuff. He’s old school but he’s got a live and let live mentality and the people that were there when I was there were doing it for the music. That’s –so– hard to find nowadays. I don’t know why.
It’s not because of the vinyl, because it could be any music format, but somehow old vinyl records, a lack of flashy advertising cut outs and so on weed out a lot of poseurs. It’s just this weird intangible magical quality that’s hard to put a finger on.
We’re pressured so much to «focus» and only like one type of music, but music is music. If you can appreciate Nina Simone with Nina Hagen, Christian Death with Christan gospel, then the world is your oyster.
There’s a listening booth or two here, which is amazing, bizarre that so many record stores lack one. And the people at the booth are sitting there all day with a pile of records and talking to people in the shop.
That’s how you learn. It’s not really that old-​fashioned. There are no «5 steps to music mastery» or «3 ways to become a star» It’s all pure, old fashioned work and a performance-​based mentality. Any other alternate realities involving connections, not practicing etc., that’s something other than being real deal. Sorry, that’s just a reality check!
The prices are also out of control low. I don’t want this place to be suddenly invaded by 600 UK DJs at once unless it helps the owner financially overcome some kind of hurdle.
Why is it so impossible to find record stores like this nowadays? I don’t know!