Lower Haight. Where the Beastie Boys, Pete Rock and Madlib went digging for samples.
- Shop
- Groove Merchant Records
- Address
- 687 Haight St
- Town
- San Francisco, United States
- Established
- 1990
- Formats
- Vinyl, 7"
- Crates
- Jazz, Soul, Funk, Disco, Hip-hop, World, Blues, Soundtracks
- In the shop
- Buys collections
Michael McFadin, who founded the Luv N' Haight label, opened Groove Merchant on Haight Street in early 1990. Chris Veltri - Cool Chris - moved up from Los Angeles in 1994, started working there at twenty-three, and took the shop over in 1997; he has been buying for it for thirty years and runs the Dis-Joint and Re-Joint labels off the back of it. Jazz, soul, rock, international, blues, disco, hip-hop, punk and soundtracks, and a reputation for rare records that brought the Beastie Boys, Pete Rock, Alchemist and Madlib through the door looking for things to sample