CouchLot Record Store Guide · 30 verified stores

Record Stores in Los Angeles

Hollywood catalogues, Valley CD digging, Highland Park specialists and Long Beach trips.

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A useful Los Angeles record-store guide has to make distance part of the recommendation. Hollywood, Highland Park, the Valley, the Westside, Pasadena and Long Beach each offer enough distinct choices to shape a trip. This guide includes stores across that wider area, while the profiles identify the actual municipality and address. Choose a part of the region first, then use the format and genre filters to find the shops that justify your browsing time.

Hollywood gives a visitor several different scales of record shopping. Amoeba's current Hollywood Boulevard location offers a broad catalogue, while The Record Parlour and As The Record Turns provide other kinds of digging nearby. Supervinyl sits farther west on Sycamore. The Fonda and Hollywood Palladium venue guides can help connect a carefully chosen set of these stops with a show, but the map is more useful than treating every Hollywood address as adjacent.

For CDs and broad used-media browsing, the Valley deserves deliberate attention. CD Trader in Tarzana, Freakbeat in Sherman Oaks and Atomic in Burbank are separate destinations. On the Westside, Record Surplus and Soundsations give another route its own purpose. Canterbury in Pasadena and Fingerprints in Long Beach also belong on a CD shopper's shortlist.

Highland Park supports a different afternoon around Gimme Gimme, Arroyo and On Maritime on Monte Vista, with Lodge Room providing a relevant concert connection. Silver Lake and Echo Park add other specialist catalogues, while Downtown has Going Underground in Little Tokyo and The Last Bookstore in the Historic Core. Those areas are worth comparing, but crossing between all of them can consume the time meant for digging. Check current official hours, read each buying policy before bringing a collection and use the specific store notes to decide which extension belongs in the day.

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Hollywood before a show

Amoeba, The Record Parlour and As The Record Turns give Hollywood several contrasting stops. Supervinyl on Sycamore is farther west. Use the Fonda and Hollywood Palladium guides for the concert portion, and compare addresses before choosing a walking route.

Highland Park and nearby neighborhoods

Arroyo is on York Boulevard, Gimme Gimme on Figueroa and On Maritime on Monte Vista. These give Highland Park a useful neighborhood route across distinct streets, with Lodge Room on Figueroa as a concert connection. Silver Lake and Echo Park stores need a separate travel leg.

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CD Trader, Freakbeat and Atomic make the Valley relevant, but are spread between Tarzana, Sherman Oaks and Burbank. Record Surplus and Soundsations are Westside options; Canterbury is in Pasadena and Fingerprints is in Long Beach. Choose one area instead of assembling a region-wide errand list.

Downtown's two different stops

Going Underground is in Little Tokyo, while The Last Bookstore occupies the Historic Core. Plan the connection between those areas. The Teragram Ballroom and Bellwether are additional Downtown travel legs rather than immediate neighbors of both shops.

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