The Best CD, Vinyl & DVD Store in Bay Area

1-2-3-4 GO! Records - Oakland

We buy used records every day. We pride ourselves on paying more than any other store in the area for used records. We're extremely selective but we know what your records are worth and will give you a fair percentage in either Cash or Trade. We a... more

101 Music

As the lone independent record store in North Beach, 101 Music consists of two stores with a massive collection of vintage vinyl. These two cluttered spaces, located around the corner from each other on Grant and Green, seem more like museums than st... more

Amoeba Music - Berkeley

In 1990 Amoeba Music was born on Telegraph Avenue in one of California's most exciting and revolutionary cities -- Berkeley.  The passion we shared with our customers for a truly broad, expertly stocked music selection at an irresistible price q... more

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Amoeba Music - San Francisco

In 1997 Amoeba Music crossed the Bay to open its San Francisco location, in a converted bowling alley at the eastern edge of Golden Gate Park. Here we stock hundreds of thousands of music and movie titles from every genre imaginable, and we're consta... more

Barnes & Noble - Emeryville

Barnes & Noble is a complete megastore for books and music. Barnes & Noble is one of the best places to inquire about hard to find books and their website makes gathering information, about any type of literature, a snap. more

Bombay Music

BombayMusic.com brings you the latest in Bollywood films (DVDs), Indian and Pakistani classical and Bollywood music CDs. We guarantee your full satisfaction in our vast selection of DVDs and CDs, offered to you at the best possible prices and discoun... more

Book Buyers

The next time you are passing through downtown Gilroy or need a respite from a long drive on the highway, stop by to browse our collection of books (including mass market paperbacks), audio books, sheet music and songbooks, DVDs (also Blu rays), CDs,... more

California Guitars

The California Guitars® Story I got my first Fender guitar when I was about twelve. Although that guitar is long gone, it occupies a place in my imagination. As a builder, I focus on capturing the undeniable magic of the guitars of the '50s and... more

Collopy Guitars

Stringed Instrument Repair and Restoration for all acoustic and electric guitars and basses. Quality guitar repair for musicians on any level of proficiency. Professional setups, adjustments, installations, refrets, structural repairs and finish tou... more

Contact Records

Near MacArthur BART Station. Contact Records is a little record store in a shipping container. It doesn't have the most offerings, but there are lots of quality records. more

Dave's Record Shop

Indie record shop in Berkeley. Since 2010. more

Drumskull Drums

DrumSkull Drums is the world's leading percussion shop rooted in the music of West Africa. For over a decade we have offered professional instruments of uncompromised quality. We remain true to our goals and we continue to expand on our focus of qual... more

Eco Jam Records

Oakland record shop! Stacks of vinyl hit the floor everyday. New and used, cheap as well as rare. We also carry new and used turntables. Econo Jam stocks a wide range of new and used vinyl - including LP and 45 of Punk, Blues, 60's Jazz, 60's Soul... more

Family Affair

A great little shop where you can find unique music, visual arts, and various gift items. more

Free Measure Records

Free Measure is run by and for musicians focused on putting forth quality music with heart, sould, content and honesty. With a standard of fairness to artists, session musicians, producers, songwriters and publishers; we are dedicated to helping arti... more

Groove Merchant Records

Lots and lots of vinyl, particularly for DJs and young people interested in the creation of music and dance. There is almost always somebody spinning in this unassuming downstairs basement of a store. GM is one of the most fun places to search for ne... more

Groove Yard

New and used jazz records. also soul. rock, blues, Brazilian, Latin, reggae, African, flamenco, east Indian, vocals, spoken word, comedy, film soundtracks, Broadway shows, gospel and classical LPs. Jazz and world music CDs. Groove Yard has over 10,00... more

Grooves

Grooves has nothing but vinyl, including some very hard to find records. All at reasonable prices!! They buy used records between 3 & 7 pm. more

Guitar Center

Guitar Solo

Whether you're interested in lessons or just want to buy strings, solo likely has just what you need in a small specialized guitar store. If they don't have what you're looking for, they'll at least point you in the right direction. Also, if quali... more

Hercules Records

Want to sell your record collection? At Hercules, we evaluate and bid separately on each of your records, in order to give you the fairest price for your collection. We inspect every record based on rarity and condition. You can give us a call... more

Italia Leather Straps

Premium Italian Leather Guitar Straps and Bass Guitar Straps more

Japan Video & Media

Located in the mall of Japan Center Mall, Japan Video & Media Inc. carries an incredibly extensive selection of animation, drama, and special interest movies from Japan and Asia. This has to be one of the best places in the city to find or inquire ab... more

Kamimoto String Instruments

Ken Su Violins

* Services for all violin family instruments and bows by our award winning luither * Trade, Sale and Consigment of string instruments * Student rental program with high quality instruments more

Last Record Store

In the late 1970’s, Doug Jayne was managing  the Music Plus store in Azusa, CA, and he hired Hoyt Wilhelm as Christmas help. Doug eventually relocated to Santa Rosa, and Hoyt moved to Santa Cruz where they remained friends. On a visit to t... more

Laughing Tiger Studios

Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media

Although no business could ever "take over" for the iconic Cody's Bookstore, Mad Monk is a wonderful resource for book and music lovers.   Mad Monk provides the market to purchase and trade in new and used books and records!  more

Mission Music Center

A good selection of Latin sounds are found hear. Most of the music is in Spanish and some obscure groups aren't on hand, but overall this a great place to search for that Tigres del Norte, Gloria Estefan or Vicente Fernandez record you never knew you... more

Mod Lang Records

Great place to find hard-to-find items. They stock reissues and new imports weekly, indies, classic and rare re-issues, U.S. indies & modern rock, new & used vinyl & CDs & tons of 7"s + music memorabilia. more

Mr. Toad's Recording Studio

Music Go Round

The world's largest retailer of used music instruments, this store will buy, sell, and accept trade-ins for guitars, drums, keyboards, pro audio, band instruments, and more. They also carry like-new instruments and accessories. They hire expert music... more

New Century Chamber Orchestra

The New Century Chamber Orchestra performs without a conductor. The musicians interact with each other the same way members of a jazz group do -- through eye contact, energy, and whole lot of trust. The result is an electric sense of immediacy, excit... more

Noise

NOISE is a family-operated record store, art gallery, & live music performance space in San Francisco's Richmond District. Owner, Dan, is also a music educator and full time working musician in SF. more

Norms Music

Norms Music in mountain View Violin Viola Cello Bows - Woodwind & Brass Instruments - Guitars sales rental repairs lessons more

On the Corner Music

Talking to Jeff Evans about the South Bay music scene is sort of like talking to Yoda. Except Jeff is far more attractive. And he puts his words in the right order. Other than that, it's pretty much the same. If he mentions something about a great ne... more

Open Mind Music

Open Mind Music curates excellent records from ABBA to Zappa. Roots, Rook, Reggae. Bebop to Hip Hop. Funk to Punk. From gentle "easy does it" to harder "heavy duty", we feature quality selections of a great variety of genres. Mostly music of the last... more

Open Secret Bookstore

We sell over 800,000 new and used book titles, videos, music CDs, and Sacred Art images, paintings, statues, sculptures, and items from around the world. We are famous for the finest and largest collections of Tibetan Thanghkas in Northern America. more

Peacock Music

Peacock Music is the oldest music store in San Francisco. The Peacock family builds guitars, violins, banjos and mandolins. Dealing mostly with string instruments, they buy, sell and trade. more

Polarity Post Production

Polarity Post Production is a full service audio post facility located in San Francisco's North Waterfront District. Focusing on Television, Radio, Video Games, Film and Corporate Programming, our talented staff uses cutting edge technology to eff... more

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