Where do you purchase your vinyl records?

I do my best to buy as much as possible, new and used, from my local independent record store, Easy Street Records - especially important right now as they've had a pretty devastating flood last week. Easy Street is a hub of this whole West Seattle community. They have a coffee shop, a diner, live music, a bar, and records, of course. They do trivia nights. They host art shows. They sponsor a little league team. They help so many great independent artists in so many ways. I feel incredibly lucky to have a shop like this just a couple miles from my house, and I try to never take it for granted.

I buy a lot direct from independent artists. I order from Acoustic Sounds a few times a year. I have ordered from Amazon but I try to avoid it whenever possible.

I don't buy from Target or Walmart or big retail chains. I'm just barely old enough to really remember going into record stores and finding community, I'm glad there are still places trying to keep that alive and I do what I can to support them. When we travel I always try to find at least one independent record store to stop in and check out. For a music lover and musician, these are the hubs of humanity, our earth revolves around them.

Sonnie Parker said:

I read some people say that Amazon does not package well, but I purchased seven or eight albums from Amazon (I just got four from Prime Day), and they were packaged very well. Each album had its own cardboard box, which was inside another box. It is as good as any of the others I've ordered from.

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I’ve not had issues with Amazon not packaging well. Except it’s so incredibly wasteful.