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Where To Find A Record Player

Record Player

You won’t find a record player just anywhere any longer. I remember them from when I was a kid, because they were the standard back then. My mother had a huge stereo unit in our living room that had a record player and an eight-track tape player. Life was simpler then for almost everyone, and there was nothing more fun than dancing in the living room with my mom on a rainy afternoon. She would get out her albums and my brother and I would choose the one we wanted, even if we had no idea what we were looking at. It was music, and that was all we needed to know.

If you have the same type of fond memories about a record player like I do, you may want to get one, just for fun. You won’t find many, if any, records to buy new in the music stores today, but you can still find albums if you know where to look. Unfortunately, most of the records you find are very old, and if you don’t have a taste for classic rock or big band, you might not have anything to listen to. There are other types of music out there to find on record, but most of what I have found has been of no interest to me.

One place I always seem to find a record player, and albums to go along with it, is in the thrift store. I make trips there on a regular basis to buy books. I can get a lot of books for a very good price, so I visit often. In the same room with the books are the records. There are a few hundred sitting there, and most of them are pretty beat up on the outside, but the records themselves look ok. If you take a trip through the rest of the store you might find a record player or two sitting there, though you never know if they still work.

You can also find a record player in today’s antique/vintage stores. A lot of people love antiques, but they are also buying up vintage items from the seventies and sixties. You will almost always see some sort of record player sitting among the items, but you’ll pay more this way. If you really want it, however, the price isn’t bad. Many of them in this type of store still work, or they will be labeled as nonworking. Just remember when you buy a record player, you are buying something that you can’t really find replacement parts for any longer.