Dave's Record Shop

DO NOT BRING YOUR VINYL LPS HERE TO SELL!!!

I am older and had a record collection of over 500 LPs. Much of them were 1960s and 1970s classic rock. I also had some jazz. What I really loved was my collection of about 50 blues albums. Some of them were really scarce or rare. I decided to part with my collection. I have never sold LPs before.

I brought about 25 of my blues albums here. I know a lot about blues, but am not familiar with the resale process. I had some wonderful blues albums.
Dave went through them. He then offered me the sum of $100 for the entire lot of 25 albums, which I reluctantly accepted.

Some time later I brought him some different albums to sell. I saw that one of my blues albums which he bought was priced at $50. Another one was priced at $40. Again, these are just 2 of the albums he bought out of 25 total.

The owner of Moe's Books in Berkeley, gave me the name of Rick Ballard. He is the owner of Groove Yard, a record store in Oakland. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and is as nice a guy as I ever met. I brought him my remaining 25 blues albums or equal scarcity as my albums I brought to Dave. He paid me over $400 for all of them, or more than 4 times what Dave paid me. I also brought him other albums, for which he paid 3x or 4 times what Dave paid.

If you have any LPs you want to sell, take them to Rick. He has an international clientele and is honest. For Dave to do what he did is just sleazy. His store is also really tiny.

I went to 4 non-chain record stores when visiting the East Bay and this was by far my favorite. In fact of all the indy record stores I've visited in the last 3 years, this is my favorite.

Well organized, easy to browse bins. Collectables and dollar bin affordables.

I picked up some great lounge records in excellent condition.

Great sound system in the store and excellent music selection by the owner. When I got there I saw that he was cleaning records, a welcome site!

Put this shop on your must visit lis.

Went in looking for a record player, he didn't have one but schooled me up on what to look for, price range and even gave me a few places to check out. Has a great record selection (especially if you like jazz), super knowledgeable and friendly. Would recommend checking out.

Great selection of Jazz. Very fair pricing. Kind and helpful service! Can't wait to go back when I'm in Berkeley again.

This is my favorite record shop in the East Bay. Dave is super friendly and low key and plays awesome music.

Digging through the new arrivals boxes, I found a rare, beautiful copy of The Blue Nile's "Hats" (gorgeous ambient pop from Scotland, The 1975 happily admitted they ripped them off for "Love It If We Made It") and an awesome glow-in-the-dark reissue of Spiritualized's "Pure Phase." To my delight, I also found an OG pressing of Lucinda Williams' s/t debut in the shelves ("Passionate Kisses" is on this album; it sucks most people don't know she wrote it and sang it way better than Mary Chapin Carpenter.).

But what I loved about Dave's were the crazy great speakers blasting The Cars' "Just What I Needed," which sounded glorious on them--and I'm not even that much of a Cars fan.

Great local shop. Worth checking on the regular. Nice guy. Fair prices. Also has used stereo equipment.

Keep trying to check this place out but has wrong hours listed. I'll just stick with Strictly Vinyl in Albany.

Love this shop. Well curated collection to choose from. Found some really good stoner rock albums. Plenty of Jazz and a nice $1 bin. Will be back again.

We've been to a couple of record stores around the east bay & sf. It had the best selection of dollar records by far. The prices on the other records were also great! Loads of 25 cent 45's you just have to look through the stacks!