Records Per Minute

A good record store with the potential to be a great record store. The selection is excellent. Unfortunately, it’s often difficult to find what you’re looking for because their genre system is organized somewhat arbitrarily and there is no website with a publicly available inventory system. They also seem to close at random times.

RPM has a good selection of music just hard to understand the organization of the records. Metal/nu-metal selection is unfortunately small. Price is a little on the higher side and the cheaper records need to be refreshed. I asked about a specific record and it wasn't much help for the attending. They also didn't offer to do any purchases online or find it

Jack was the best! He was so helpful and informative - as a new collector he took the time to tell me about RSD and more! At checkout, I mentioned one other album I had in mind to get and he led me directly to it! Great stop if you are a long term collector or new on the map as I am.

Surprisingly large selection for a small shop, with a wide variety of records at fair prices. Some finds were underpriced, others a bit high, but the $2 bin had plenty of overlooked gems. The owner and other staff member were friendly and funny, and they seemed helpful and knowledgeable when dealing with other customers. I spent nearly an hour digging through crates but probably could have spent a few more. There's free street parking nearby, and the location is great with several small music venues close by; a perfect place to stop before a show.

Clearly, they were not prepared for the Twenty One Pilots Breach listening party. So many things wrong. When they opened at 10am (2 hours before party), no one came out to the line to explain how things would work (spoiler: because they didn’t know themselves) or to even greet us. When we got inside, they made us put our names on a list for the vinyl variants. Not only could they still not tell us how we would be getting the vinyls (raffle vs first come first serve), but they could have also had the hundreds of people waiting in line for hours fill out the paper during the full 120 minutes they had between opening & the party. But instead, everyone was trying to get inside the extremely tiny store to get their name on the list, which made the line messy towards the back, since the people who had already put their name on the list continued to hang out in the store to listen to the album (duh). It was a big mess of who has/hasn’t already put their name on this list. On top of this, there was seemly only two employees working. The female employee was constantly yelling at people to move, when there was quite literally nowhere to go. Surely, they didn’t think the people who had just waited for 4 hours were going to leave before fully listening to the album, but I really do think they thought this would happen. They were trying to fit WAY more people into this store than what was possible, ruining the experience & probably causing a fire hazard. Between the yelling & all of 2 speakers they had, there were definitely moments where I couldn’t even hear the album that I had waited HOURS for. The male employee working the list/free merch acted like he didn’t want to be there & had no idea what was going on. The two were truly hopeless together. After leaving, we went to Used Kids (just to wander, didn’t stay for the listening party) & not only is there just *so* much more space, but I could hear just the regular music they play better than I heard Breach. If you have a small store, it’s fine, but at least look at Spoonful, who did batches of 40-50 people. Spoonful also has had people who waited in line fill out papers for Record Store Day before so they could pre-fill orders before even opening. Literal proof that it’s possible to be organized & think ahead. This whole experience was a joke. I would also like to say that over 48 hours later, no word on the vinyls. They haven’t even made a social media post yet with literally ANY information.