The Music Store — Local services in San Francisco

The store is located on West Portal, which is a great street with lots of very cool shops. When you first see the store, it's very appealing, like finding an old antique or book store. It's full of records, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and memorabilia. It's cool until you start crate digging and realize that the majority of records are either obscure artists or albums from B & C listed artists. The majority of records are common that you would find at other record stores dollar bins. Except the price tags here are $4.99 to $12.99. Most of the records would grade at G+ - VG. There are some VG+, but I don't think too many people are going to want a beautiful copy of Herb Albert or Paul Revere and the Raiders. I'm sure at one point they had some great stuff, but I'd say 90% of the vinyl here are shelf fillers. I don't want to be too harsh because it is a cool store to browse through if you are walking around West Portal, but I wouldn't make it a reason to come to this part of town. The owner is pretty chill and helpful. I understand, good collections are hard to find, but there are other stores in the city that have some great records at decent prices. And, as I mentioned before, many of the records here can be purchased at many of the other store's dollar bins. I hope no one thinks I'm bashing the store, but as a vinyl hunter, I'm looking...

Nowadays, places like this are hard to find. There is a great energy here, that of the late 60's/early 70's. Everything is a very nice price, especially because I have found that LPs and 45's can be very expensive. As of writing this (10/13/19) the 45's are buy 3 get one free, but the helpful and nice owner of the shop charged me for three and gave me two free. I gave it four stars for a few reasons: besides all of this, the records are not well organized (but not awful either.) One of the 45s was scratched pretty bad, but I got it for free and the song on the other side is good, so that is OK. They may not have the exact record you want, but even though I left the place without a much-hoped for Beach Boys record, I found a delightful Doo-Wop record that has yielded many hours of joy. I have also found many, many good CDs here. I think that there is even a small tape collection. I have also made some good DVD finds. And, if you have any Spongebob memorabilia to get off of your hands, the shop owner would be happy to buy it. I also found a 25 cent record sleeve that I needed for my Alfred Apaka LP that I lost the case for. This is quite a nice place to find old music media, and I am glad I...

Music stores are a rarity, so visiting my local music store was quite a treat. They have a wide selection of vinyls, CDs, DVD movies, and even blu-rays. Many of the vinyls aren't necessarily collector's favorite. Many of the covers that come with them have seen better days but they are offered at a very reasonable price that even competes with eBay prices. The guys behind the counter know their stuff, so if you need something they might have it in inventory...