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It’s about time to rifle through some records.
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On the eve of Record Store Day, 10 surviving metro Atlanta vinyl shops

The city—especially Little Five Points—is dotted with great record stores

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It’s about time to rifle through some records.
| Criminal Records, via Instagram

Decades have passed since a pressed record was the go-to option for music consumption, but the thin black disks have remained a novelty among old-school listeners, hipsters, and anyone else who enjoys the iconic crackle of a needle on vinyl grooves.

So in 2007, a consortium of independent record store owners conjured a way to celebrate the musical medium and spread awareness of its survival. They called it, aptly, Record Store Day.

Today, Record Store Day counts participating stores around the world—on every continent, in fact, except Antarctica, according to RecordStoreDay.com.

Saturday marks the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day, and a handful of metro Atlanta shops are gearing up for the onslaught of album-flippers on the prowl for unique jams of old, or vinyl copies of modern hits.

It comes as little surprise that hip, grungy neighborhoods like Little Five Points never abandoned vinyl retailers when many other areas saw them obscured by cassettes, CDs, and now internet music stores. But even unassuming areas like Roswell or Cobb County’s The Battery at SunTrust Park house shops where you can score a slice of history.

Take a peek below to see where some of the best surviving—and new—record stores are located in metro Atlanta.

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Wax 'N' Facts

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Wax ‘N’ Facts has been serving Atlanta’s music scene since 1976. The iconic shop has hundreds of new releases and reissued albums in stock, and you can buy and sell EPs and CDs, too.

Criminal Records

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Arguably Atlanta’s most famous record store, the locally owned Criminal Records has been going strong for years, selling not just music, but also comic books, magazines, toys, and more.

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Waterloo Sunset Records

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A new face in the record store market, Waterloo Sunset Records opened in Cobb County just after the Atlanta Braves finished the 2018 baseball season. Folks who’ve finished their peanuts and crackerjacks can mosey on over to The Battery’s new music shop.

Waterloo Sunset Records, via Facebook

Fantasyland Records

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Like Wax ‘N’ Facts, Fantasyland Records has been slinging vinyl since the mid-1970s. The shop will buy and sell everything from Led Zeppelin albums to OutKast mixes and everything in between.

Moods Music

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Yet another Little Five Points pick, Moods Music bills itself as a “mom and pop records store.”

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Sunbrimmer Records

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Out in Avondale Estates, Sunbrimmer Records buys, sells, and trades records of all sorts. And sometimes, you can catch live tunes there, too.

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Beatlab

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We get it: Little Five Points loves its record stores! At the back of a retail strip on Moreland Avenue, the Beatlab sells records, as well as music production equipment for aspiring scratchers.

Beatlab, via Instagram

Wuxtry Records

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In Decatur, Wuxtry Records has flipped records, CDs, t-shirts, posters, and more since 1978.

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Ella Guru Record Shop

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Decatur’s quaint Ella Guru record store is best know for its cheap prices—namely its $1 box—according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Mojo Vinyl Records

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Yep, even northern OTPers enjoy their vinyls from time to time. Settled in a hip little house on Alpharetta Street, Mojo Vinyl Records serves up the best Roswell has to offer.

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Wax 'N' Facts

Wax ‘N’ Facts has been serving Atlanta’s music scene since 1976. The iconic shop has hundreds of new releases and reissued albums in stock, and you can buy and sell EPs and CDs, too.

Criminal Records

Arguably Atlanta’s most famous record store, the locally owned Criminal Records has been going strong for years, selling not just music, but also comic books, magazines, toys, and more.

a photo of Criminal Records Criminal Records, via Instagram

Waterloo Sunset Records

A new face in the record store market, Waterloo Sunset Records opened in Cobb County just after the Atlanta Braves finished the 2018 baseball season. Folks who’ve finished their peanuts and crackerjacks can mosey on over to The Battery’s new music shop.

Waterloo Sunset Records, via Facebook

Fantasyland Records

Like Wax ‘N’ Facts, Fantasyland Records has been slinging vinyl since the mid-1970s. The shop will buy and sell everything from Led Zeppelin albums to OutKast mixes and everything in between.

Moods Music

Yet another Little Five Points pick, Moods Music bills itself as a “mom and pop records store.”

Moods Music, via Twitter

Sunbrimmer Records

Out in Avondale Estates, Sunbrimmer Records buys, sells, and trades records of all sorts. And sometimes, you can catch live tunes there, too.

Sunbrimmer Records, via Instagram

Beatlab

We get it: Little Five Points loves its record stores! At the back of a retail strip on Moreland Avenue, the Beatlab sells records, as well as music production equipment for aspiring scratchers.

Beatlab, via Instagram

Wuxtry Records

In Decatur, Wuxtry Records has flipped records, CDs, t-shirts, posters, and more since 1978.

Wuxtry Records, via Instagram

Ella Guru Record Shop

Decatur’s quaint Ella Guru record store is best know for its cheap prices—namely its $1 box—according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ella Guru, via Facebook

Mojo Vinyl Records

Yep, even northern OTPers enjoy their vinyls from time to time. Settled in a hip little house on Alpharetta Street, Mojo Vinyl Records serves up the best Roswell has to offer.

Mojo Vinyl Records, via Facebook