vintage record stores

  • A woman with voluminous hair and a yellow coat smiles while holding a Bruce Springsteen vinyl album in a record store filled with stacked albums and people in the background.

    15 Vintage Photos of Record Shops in the 1970s

    Flip through these old snapshots of 1970s record shops that'll take you back to a time when disco ruled and funk was on fire.

    Record shops in the ’70s were a heady mix of patchouli, vinyl dust, and the plastic scent of freshly-unwrapped album sleeves. You’ve got people in listening booths debating whether “Ziggy Stardust” really was Bowie’s best, while a stack of vinyls…