Rock & Roll Heaven

07/17/05

Go Here For All Your Vinyl Needs by Kayla A. at InsiderPages

Contributor at Insider Pages

Rock & Roll Heaven has TONS of records. They have about three rooms full of vinyl, in any genre you want. I will spend hours out of a Sunday afternoon to sift through what they have. You can find classic records at garage-sale prices, I just bought a Johnny Cash record for five bucks. They just expanded and created a wall of books and magazines all about music that are hard to find in other stores. It's the best place to find quality vinyl.

Record shop is a time capsule of popular music.

by Contributor at Citysearch

The Scene

Located on the outskirts of College Park down from Ivanhoe Row, Rock & Roll Heaven is a one-of-a-kind music store that specializes almost exclusively in selling, buying and trading vinyl records. Claiming to posses more than one million records on site, this shop is the Holy Grail for those seeking rare and out-of-print rock, jazz, soul, punk, country and electronic recordings from the past half-century.

The Experience

Shopping at Rock & Roll Heaven is similar to going on a field trip back in musical time; dusty relics of decades past line the wall, including an old WDIZ license plate, a Fog Hat neon sign and hundreds of rock memorabilia items. The main room is filled with albums covering every genre imaginable, plus an adjacent room houses dance music, electronic oddities and punk/alternative rock selections.

Video Killed ...

One of the store's most amazing aspects is the separate room dedicated to film, theater and television soundtracks.