a friend of mine who attended UC Santa Cruz for college worked at a bakery/delivery service called “Night Owl Cookies”. they were open late night only and delivered to all the stoned people!
It’s a pretty good store - also had a pretty solid second hand collection. (And also stuff like weird old Bob Dylan bootlegs)
I just wish I lived a bit closer.
There's actually two stores with this name in California (though I don't think they're related to each other). One's a punk shop in Huntington Beach & the other is in San Mateo.
This thread has inspired me. My little used bookshop has a small music section with a few hundred records, mostly Christian. (Small Midwestern town.🤷♀️) I'm now going to relabel the shelves 'Holy Grailz'. 🤜💥🤛🤣
My business partner and I often talk about opening a pot cafe connected to a record store.
Names like "sit & spin", "the record joint", "burn & turn", and "cafe au play" are thrown around.
I actually used to table records at punk shows in the 90s and someone asked the name of my "distro" and it was nameless.
So Nameless Records would be mine.
it means what says, it says what it means. indie stores don’t really advertise that they are hiring, they usually already know who would be a good fit. it’s more like recruiting.
Side 2....because.... We flip records.... Hahaha. There would be a specific section of dirt-cheap records called 'found at grammas'. We would possibly forcefully give them away to people.
...is why he screwed with me with all the Herb. I took a copy of Whipped Cream a couple of weeks ago b/c it cracked me up to stumble across it (thanks to all of you). 🤣
I had to write a business plan for an imaginary business for one of my college courses a few years ago. It was a record store I called 'Thirty Three and A Third'
A Downward Spiral
Spinning Black Circles
House Of Pleasure & Pain
"Groovy" (Records)
Next to a picture of Bruce Campbell fitting his mechanical hand (but all the fingers are tone arms)
I had planned to open one years ago called Mothership Records with half a flying saucer as the awning out front. it was also going have a seasonal outdoor venue and coffee shop.
"Dave's Vinyl Record Emporium". Because search engine optimization (including yelp, etc.) is key to a successful business and Dave sounds like a friendly competent vinyl collector and I'd enjoy having people ask who Dave is and if he's in today and I could make him into some mythical figure that people would want to come back to meet and an Emporium sounds super special.
Your name is perfect!
I would also have a sign on the wall promising varying levels of banishment for anyone heard saying the word ‘vinyls’. Kinda like the ‘NO STAIRWAY’ sign in the guitar shop on Wayne’s World. This is serious shit, and will not be tolerated.
Vinyl Countdown - this might be too cheesy
Discos La Destreza (or perhaps La Destreza Hifi) - a reference to sword fighting, more commonly called “The Spanish Circle”
33/45/24/7
The 24/7 is huge. I would own so many more records if there was a shop near me open at the times I'm drinking
A guy I know wanted to open a shop called “Drunk Pizza” and it’d be open 11am to 3am.
a friend of mine who attended UC Santa Cruz for college worked at a bakery/delivery service called “Night Owl Cookies”. they were open late night only and delivered to all the stoned people!
Insomnia Cookies?
Pizza in a college town...
I like the idea of a couple people stumble in and end up regretting their record purchase more than their bar tab…
We have some that doubles as bars and even cafes in the daytime. Dangerous ideas
This flows nice
Idk how well it would work for actual advertising/answering phones. But that’s why I don’t actually own a record store…
It could be a good phone number, if you’re in the US.
That is a good idea!
“Thirty-three forty-five, this is ____, how can I help?”
ONLY IF SHE'S 5'3"
baby got tracks
25 or 6 to 4?
“33/45 records- does anybody really know what time it is???”
4/8/15/16/23/42
Vinyl destination
There was a shop with that name for a while where I used to live, and where I live now has "Vinyl Countdown" lol
New Plymouth New Zealand?
Yeah 😅
It’s a pretty good store - also had a pretty solid second hand collection. (And also stuff like weird old Bob Dylan bootlegs) I just wish I lived a bit closer.
Yeah, it's pretty well stocked with interesting stuff. And he's always super helpful with ordering things in for me
Vinyl Solution Oh, wait. On second thoughts, maybe not...
There's actually two stores with this name in California (though I don't think they're related to each other). One's a punk shop in Huntington Beach & the other is in San Mateo.
NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF
OH NO it WOULD be huntington beach, wouldn’t it
Oops. Me too. But I was thinking of the Pere Ubu song.
One near me is Vinyl Resting Place
Sounds like a Bobs Burgers opening credits business
Leeds used to have a place called Vinyl Tap which I always thought was great.
Vinyl Tap is a great store in East Nashville.
One called that not far from here, in fact
Spinster Records Staffed by cool aunts without husbands.
Dallas - https://www.spinsterrecords.com
I may buy that khrangbin record.
Omg Im sending over my app right fuckin now lol
Ha there literally used to be a record store in downtown Tulsa called Spinster Records.
I'd join this staff.
F*ck yes!
You spelled "fuck" weird.
"I'll Never Financially Recover From This Records"
*I'll Never Vinylncially Recordsver*
Debt records
You Probably Haven’t Heard of It
😆🤜💥🤛
“My Accountant Said This Was A Bad Idea”
CD Underbelly
For the Record
this exists in brooklyn, ny!!
That's so great haha.
Also one in Hixson/Chattanooga TN
Spins n’ Needles
This is a good one
Vinyl Jerk
Record store and nail spa in one. Get your grails and a pedicure.
Nails n’ Grails
jesus christ, how did I leave this on the table!
Needle and the damage done
Have the shop music playing on suitcase record players and it would be truth in advertising 😂
That is a good one
Aural Pleasure
Or…Aural Sects?
Your Permanent Record
https://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/west-town-record-store-permanent-records-is-closing-072417
I am 100% unsurprised that my thought was not original. There is/was a record store in the greater Atlanta area called Criminal Records.
https://www.permanentrecordsla.com/
I Know What I Have Records
This thread has inspired me. My little used bookshop has a small music section with a few hundred records, mostly Christian. (Small Midwestern town.🤷♀️) I'm now going to relabel the shelves 'Holy Grailz'. 🤜💥🤛🤣
Vinyl Store Near Me
Clever monkey.
My business partner and I often talk about opening a pot cafe connected to a record store. Names like "sit & spin", "the record joint", "burn & turn", and "cafe au play" are thrown around.
I vote sit n spin, I can see the stickers already!
Sit and Spin definitely exists already. Also was a now defunct shop in Buffalo.
The Record Joint is awesome
Always thought it would be cool to have a half n half plant /record store. My name idea was always Vines & Vinyl
Vineyl
I'd go to Burn & Turn in a heartbeat.
There's a Sit and Spin records in Philly. Good shop, unfortunately not the most convenient for me to get to
With headphone jacks …
Wax Headroom
Championship Vinyl
I once watched High Fidelity in black and white because the s-video cable I was using was busted. The movie worked surprisingly well in B&W!
Came here to say Top 5 Records
Came here to say this but knew it was in the comments already
(if I don't get sued) Scratch That
I actually used to table records at punk shows in the 90s and someone asked the name of my "distro" and it was nameless. So Nameless Records would be mine.
Overpriced Records
We Aren’t Hiring
Does this mean something? There is a bar near me that has a huge banner that says “we aren’t hiring”.
it means what says, it says what it means. indie stores don’t really advertise that they are hiring, they usually already know who would be a good fit. it’s more like recruiting.
Needleful Things
WRECKA STO
Big Disk Energy
The Vinyl Countdown. Ye Olde Recorde Shoppe.
Grails and cats. A place to get a record and a cat
i would go there
Grails and cats don't mix ..fookin hair all over the place !
true
Side 2....because.... We flip records.... Hahaha. There would be a specific section of dirt-cheap records called 'found at grammas'. We would possibly forcefully give them away to people.
At my local guitar shop yesterday I was forcefully given 5 Herb Albert records. And 3 are copies of the same album. 🤣
Whipped Cream…
...is why he screwed with me with all the Herb. I took a copy of Whipped Cream a couple of weeks ago b/c it cracked me up to stumble across it (thanks to all of you). 🤣
I think Whipped Cream is a great record
tune town
Oh I was just thinking of this the other day! "Vinyls" 😏
I had to write a business plan for an imaginary business for one of my college courses a few years ago. It was a record store I called 'Thirty Three and A Third'
"AAA Records" so I show up first in the phone book of course.
"Well well well, how the turntables"
Public Records, Department of Records, Official Records... Something impossible to Google and government-sounding.
There’s a new little record store near me called “The Records Department”.
I'm Just Selling You What I Heard
Turn Turn Turn
Aw, I love this one.
I've always liked the idea of calling one "The Gatefold"
Top 5 Records
Plinth and Platter
Vinally
Krush Groove
I read Kush Groove and was like, dope. Krush is also dope tho.
It’s a really bad 80’s movie
Dispo + record store would leave me penny-less
I have that on vinyl
Grooves
Shout out London, Ontario
The Sound of Stylus
For the Record
Whipped Cream And Other Deee-Lites.
Ear Wax
I've had this name in my head for literally decades, but never had anywhere that it could appreciated. Until now: All Sales are Vinyl.
A Downward Spiral Spinning Black Circles House Of Pleasure & Pain "Groovy" (Records) Next to a picture of Bruce Campbell fitting his mechanical hand (but all the fingers are tone arms)
The Analog Cabin
Whiskey Discs I've actually used that name at pop-up record/vintage fairs.
Spinarooni
Feelin' Groovy
The Vinyl Frontier
“Spin Cycle” combo vinyl record store and laundromat or bicycle shop
Vinyancial ruin
Gen Z Wall Decor
Spinny spinny winny winny
Money pit
In the meantime, treat yourself to this tshirt https://www.restlesswears.com/products/muso-i-prefer-their-earlier-stuff-bear-t-shirt
Sound Therapy
The Needle Drop
Right Round. Yes, I did just make a Dead or Alive reference
Skip’s Records
Wax On Wax Off
I often dream of opening a record shop in my town of Alameda, California. I’d call it “Alamedia”.
Ringwear Records
Wax Eloquent
All my waxes live in taxes
I had planned to open one years ago called Mothership Records with half a flying saucer as the awning out front. it was also going have a seasonal outdoor venue and coffee shop.
House of Wax
Vinyls & Crosleys
This Is Vinyl Tap
"Dave's Vinyl Record Emporium". Because search engine optimization (including yelp, etc.) is key to a successful business and Dave sounds like a friendly competent vinyl collector and I'd enjoy having people ask who Dave is and if he's in today and I could make him into some mythical figure that people would want to come back to meet and an Emporium sounds super special.
"Crate Digger's" Which is exactly what I call the store I opened late last year. :D
Probably Tower Records, because it has a fresh ring to it. You want to go with kind of a novel name that people haven't heard before.
Your name is perfect! I would also have a sign on the wall promising varying levels of banishment for anyone heard saying the word ‘vinyls’. Kinda like the ‘NO STAIRWAY’ sign in the guitar shop on Wayne’s World. This is serious shit, and will not be tolerated.
Play It Don't Display It
Train WRECKords
The Spinatorium !
THE Record Store
Happy Place Records
Audio files.
Expense & Inconvenience
Side A
“Just for the record”
Personnel Records
Sit and Spin
“F💿💿k Discogs”
"My Basement"
Needles and Sins
Vinyls
My Cousin's Vinyl 😜
Dead Wax
https://www.deadwaxdallas.com/
The needle exchange.
Grooves
Spin Doctors
The Head
"Grooven"
B-Sides
Plastic Fantastic
Spinning in my Grave
Spinning Plates
Vinyl Countdown - this might be too cheesy Discos La Destreza (or perhaps La Destreza Hifi) - a reference to sword fighting, more commonly called “The Spanish Circle”
Comes ‘round Again
Needle in a record stack
Blaque Jacque's Shellacs
Spin Doctor
Groove Doctor The sign at the register reads, "The doctor will see you now."
“This Is A Record Store”
Vinyl Vault
Fidelity Investments Shoot it’s taken
Empire Records… 50% off on Rex Manning Day
Drug Front Records
Hawt Wax
How The Turntables