Vinyl Resting Place

Great time in here today coming in with my husband to find him a treat and ending up with six or seven albums for myself. Love the lady who runs this place and have been a longtime fan, and after a long time away from the shop it’s still going strong with a killer selection and a friendly vibe with zero attitude like you see in the newer hipster record stores. Plus the prices are reasonable! Happy to see them doing well and happy to say I’m another happy customer (did I mention VRP makes me happy?!).

This is a fun place to wander into on a Sunday afternoon and just peruse. That’s exactly what I did last Sunday. I’ve been in here several times and it’s a small little shop. But there are quite a few interesting items in here. In addition to records and CDs, there are some cool band posters from the 60s and 70s up on the walls for sale. They even look like they were signed by the artist. I was a bit mezmerized! Friendly, neighborhood record shop. Check it out for yourself the next time you’re wandering around the St. Johns neighborhood!

I love Vinyl Resting Place. There is a lot of love of music here. Granted, I am not a Vinyl Person but I love to look at the almost archival displays here. Even though, very little music mattered before The Sex Pistols and The Ramones, I still love the pride taken here. Outstanding!

I have been to many, if not most vinyl record shops in Portland, but I had not ventured to Vinyl Resting Place, since I usually don’t visit North Portland much. So finally I found myself with some available time, and I decided to pay them a visit.
What a wonderful place this is; a real jewel indeed. Their selection of old rock is quite remarkable and well curated, and the jazz section is a real work of love. The records themselves are in far better condition than what can usually be seen in other stores, and they take good care if it too, every album protected by a plastic outer sleeve. The prices are quite reasonable, and I even found some gems for under $ 5.
I am really grateful for the superb personal attention that the owners give to their customers. I’ve grown accustomed to having the record store clerks just ignore their customers –that is, if you’re lucky, for many others seem to enjoy abusing us-​, and so finding people who clearly enjoy their jobs is, in a word, refreshing.
Vinyl Resting Place is the kind record store that I would love to run when I retire.

I stop in here every once in a while looking for bluegrass records. Not the biggest selection in town, but what is in there is great, easily the best bluegrass records I’ve found in a store in Portland and I always walk out with a stack of records that I can’t wait to get him and play.
Love this place.

I visited this store on a whim and left impressed and holding a record I had wanted for years.
They have a great selection and great prices. I payed $ 8 for an utterly unscratched copy of Dark Side of the Moon. The man who checked me out was friendly and helpful and the selection was great. Everything was easy to find and I wanted to stay longer. I couldn’t imagine anything to improve about this store.

A great afternoon dig. Interesting buys makes for interesting stock.
Bought a handfull of stamped metal 45 plugs and about a crate of records from these folks. Good bakery next door.