Record Surplus - Record Shop in Los Angeles

"The Last Record Store" - 100,000 items on the floor.

Shop

Record Surplus

Address

12436 Santa Monica Boulevard

Town

Los Angeles, United States

Established

1985

Formats

Vinyl, CDs, 7"

Crates

Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Classical, Hip-hop, Reggae, Country

In the shop

Buys collections

Record Surplus has traded since 1985, calling itself The Last Record Store, and spent 26 years on Pico Boulevard before moving to Santa Monica Boulevard in 2011. Scale is the appeal: north of 100,000 items on the floor and a warehouse behind it running into the hundreds of thousands, covering ground most shops will not touch - easy listening, spoken word, big band, Dixieland and opera sit alongside the soul, jazz, hip-hop and rock. New and used, and priced to be dug through rather than admired.