BLK Vinyl

BLK Vinyl is built around used and collectable records, with particular attention to the 1960s and 1970s. Its stated interests stretch across psych, garage and progressive rock, older jazz, soul, lounge and exotica, while later pressings and local releases keep the scope from becoming a single-decade exercise. Three friends opened the business in 2018. For a visitor, the appeal is a focused search through editions and overlooked corners of a collection, rather than expecting every current chart release. East Sixth Street is the address, but this is well east of the downtown nightlife blocks.

Used and collectable vinyl, selected new and local releases, and genres including jazz, soul, psych, garage and progressive rock. The specific pressing matters here as much as the album title.

BLK advertises buying, selling and trading records. Contact the shop about collection size and condition; an interest in collectable vinyl is not a promise to buy every record.

2505 East Sixth Street, Suite F. Pair it with Drinks Records on East Cesar Chavez only after checking both opening schedules. The two shops are in East Austin, on different streets.

If you are chasing an original issue, keep the label and catalogue details with your want list. A reissue may be the right listening copy, but it is a different purchase.