Time Traveler CDS

Terrible parking, Terrible lighting in the store, very musty smell, the floors in every single room were cluttered, safety hazard, staff had no courtesy, stuff everywhere, no organization. Will not be shopping here again, waste of time.

Good old school shop, smells of nostalgia and memories. It's probably here just keep looking. So much to see.

Great store! Good selection and the owner was friendly and helpful. We were greeted with a smile as soon as we came in. This is our new go-to spot for vinyl.

First off, I never write reviews. However, today I visited this shop because it was my daughter’s 15th birthday and she likes to look around music shops and try to find some vinyl for her growing collection. We should have turned around as soon as we walked in as it smells like a basement bathroom, but we didn’t. Then we should have left when the collection proved to be no better than an old yard sale. A bunch of junk. When we finally gave the place a good once over and were ready to leave, still happy, the owner was completely rude that we didn’t buy anything and proceeded to tell us how he wished we hadn’t found his store. Visiting that store was a mistake. Save your time and go down the street to Square Records.

I've been doing this hobby for two decades now, and you see all sorts of stores, some good, some bad - but when you walk into a record store and you smell ~that~ smell, that old, dusty, mildew almost moldy smell, it doesn't give you confidence in the quality of the product you're looking at. When talking to the owner (who was perfectly nice, though he was very, VERY sick at the time judging by the scattering of used tissues around him on the checkout counter), the first thing he said to me was that "this was his worst year ever" and that he was thinking about closing up. He said that people always tell him what a great store he has, but then he never sees them again. Not exactly the best intro either. I guess to some the place could be called "a record digger's delight" but in reality, you're looking through a lot (and I mean A LOT) of stuff that no one really wants anymore. Plus, I can't be the only one who doesn't want to stay in a badly ventilated, weird smelling record store with leaky ceilings digging through who knows what. It blew me away when he told me he was still buying full collections when looking at the state of things around the store. My honest suggestion would be not to close up because that would be very sad, but to please try to add as much ventilation to this store as possible, and to honestly, clear out the old records that no one wants anymore. People in this hobby are smarter than they used to be and unfortunately the chuff of every record collection from the 50s and 60s doesn't necessarily belong in a store anymore. Be more selective with what you display and keep. Take the time to highlight the interesting oddities and clean and sleeve them. Take credit card, or at the very least something like Venmo. I hope the store does survive and keep going because the majority of the reviews I'm reading are pretty good, though a lot of what I encountered does seem like this may be more of a recent issue.