Revolver Records

Their selection is pretty decent. Sure it’s not the greatest ever but probably much of it is based off what people are selling them and I don’t know how fast certain more desirable stuff is going. If you stop in more frequently, you may find more gems. Anyways, I found an ELO album and Billy Bragg so I left happy. They had a really good soul/R&B/disco section. I was also impressed that they had a house section and tapes! Tapes tapes tapes! The staff has always been really nice and laid back. It’s great that they have a little section devoted to audio components. Overall a great place and one people should support.

This place is the best, the guy working today helped me find the best pre owned receiver for my brand new turntable. Got kid a for $ 19!

If you love used records the you will love Revolver… I LOVE REVOLVER! you never know what local DJ will be digging right next to you… DJ’s Smite, Djents, J-​cut, DR. Pressure to name a few I have seen up there.

Hidden Gem in the Desert
Great selection of used vinyl and new arrivals. The store is a small, jam-​packed room of antique goodness. If you are a fan of digging, finding hidden goodies, and don’t mind the unorganized format, this place is for you. Highly recommended!
Pros: great selection of used vinyl, fair pricing, low key staff.
Cons: unorganized (stacks of unshelved vinyl on top of bins).
Overall, 4.5÷5 stars for a great store. Will visit again!

Sweet little record shop, stopped in on a Sunday afternoon, huge selection and decent prices for all their used stuff… cheaper than Zia anyway.

This is one of two locations within 20 minutes of each other. This spot has the marginally larger, better shape collection with the staff that obviously run both shops. There were multiple people organizing things here and hanging out when I arrived. The music at this spot was louder and clearer (using the same speakers as the other location, though). They closed the evening with a Black Crowes live album that always sounds great (was playing on CD though!)
Unilocal, these stores close at 8, not 9 on most weekdays. The staff tells me you won’t let them update their own business information. That’s hard to believe.
Like my other review, this store shares the largest $ 1 collection I’ve seen in any store, all in boxes along the floor. Hours are required to make a complete pass. You’ll find lots of nothing, but also sprinkled throughout are some nice trinkets. Up top are reasonably priced for the most part better picks.
The staff here is just polite enough to earn a pass. My bar is typically lowered for record stores, so anything said pretty much rolls off. I asked where Stevie Wonder was because the location here differed from their other store (was Jazz, Vocal at the last place, here its «Soul because he’s Black»). I also have no problem asking every store if when buying more than 10 if they’ll give a discount. This was more uncomfortable than it had to be here.
I left here with somewhere on the order of 25 selections across the board. No big winners, just a bunch of okay titles which could I’m sure be had elsewhere if I were concerned about waiting for more mint condition. Great store for people short on dough but would like to build up their collection and get emotionally involved with certain artists/​albums then look for nicer copies of favorites later.
I understand they have a number of used CD’s here as well; while I could probably use some of those as well, I didn’t give them a chance at this or the other location. Vinyl for the win.

I was skeptical when i first entered the store but that soon changed. I’m used to not finding a lot in the Soul, R&B, Disco genre but there it was. A whole wall devoted to it. I found DJ Promo only copies, full albums and even 12 Inch Singles! At good prices too. Even a used House music section. In Phoenix! Then there was the whole everything’s a dollar section which I didn’t have enough time to look through. I will definitely go back ! Soon!

Happiness is a warm gun. I think about that turn of phrase a lot. What it means is up for debate, ask the dearly departed spirit of John Lennon next time you have a séance if you think it really matters. To me, happiness is a new record, and one of the best spots to chase that high is at Revolver.
Revolver is always changing, like the line up of any particular Brian Jonestown Massacre album, you’ll never be quite sure what’s in stock– and isn’t that half the fun? For me it is. I love the excitement that comes with perusing that new arrivals bin, thumbing through each and every 45, sometimes you come up for air after an intense dive into the murky depths with nothing, emptyhanded and at a loss. A person could easily write off the joint as a bust and never come back, and secretly I hope they do, ’cause then there’s less competition amongst the audiophiles that haunt the establishment like barnacles on an ancient ships hull.
In all honesty whenever good stuff comes in, and it does all the time, it’s usually snatched up. Somedays it’s you doing the snatching, and other days it’s some beardy faced bespectacled asshole with his hitlerian hairdo perfectly quaffed sauntering away with that Stone Roses lp that was by all rights yours, I mean c’mon that hipster dingus probably can’t even name one member of the band and you just know he snatched that up out of your clutches from a purely spiteful place, fuck him right?
*AHEM*
Revolver holds this special place in my heart, it was where I was baptised in fire and began this journey down the lonely path of the vinyl enthusiast. I remember bringing my entire CD library and trading it straight out for a turn table, speakers, a receiver and my very first album (Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life). How green and naïve I was to this whole world back then, how intimidated and bumbling I was; but the fine gentlemen of Revolver dashed about the store assembling it all for me, cherry picking their favorite pieces of equipment the shop had stashed away and making sure I was getting hooked up, or «turned on tuned in and dropped out». If revolver was a house of the lord in the faith of the one true apostolic church of vinyl I’d like to think myself a thoroughly devout layman, eager to discover what mysteries awaited.

I love vinyl and this is my hood vinyl store. The staff rocks with enthusiasm and their prices are fair. Luv me some revolver!

This is the kind of place everyone needs to support. Good selection fair prices and sell some nice extras like sleeves for old 78s. Looks, feels and smells like a record store from the moment you walk in. I’m happy to actually buy music from this company as they do things right.

My neighborhood record store, so it’s the only record store I regularly frequent. Lucky for me, it’s pretty bomb. Never a large crowd of shoppers when I’m in, but there is always a stream of business coming in and out. Decent selection of new vinyl, rock, and pop, but not a very sizable collection of country. Good prices — most used records seem to be priced around $ 2-​$ 10 — and for every $ 100 you spend you get $ 10 off your next purchase of used vinyl. The store also carries DVDs, CDs, and Junior Mints. And when are Junior Mints ever a bad idea?

What a great store. I am excited for the new location to open next week in Tempe

One of my favorite record stores in Phoenix. This is what it use to be like back in the 70’s and 80’s kiddies. Great staff great selection GREAT STORE !

Can’t wait to go back. I was told they will be opening another location in Tempe, did I hear Southern and Mill? Somewhere nearby.
Great vinyl — I bought some classic Dead and Allman Brothers — 5 albums for about $ 39. They had tons of options, Jazz, R&B, Bluegrass, Rock, Pop etc. All of the albums I purchased were in excellent condition, no skipping or static. They also have CD’s and other fun stuff.

This used to be such a great record store but sadly their selection of records has become one of the worst in Phoenix. The last time I went there I found out that one of the owners has left (the one who knew a ton about vinyl) so it is really sad to see the rapid decline. Prices have gotten higher and quality of vinyl is terrible. I wouldn’t recommend coming here anymore, there are way better options in town. It is almost like this is becoming a low-​end version of Zia records without the selection. Employees used to be fun and knowledgeable now it is almost unrecognizeable down to the terrible music being played in store. Used to be a place to find great lps, great live music and experimental shows now just a boring store.

…it isn’t Used Kids or Vintage Vinyl, but considering the size of the space they sure do cram a lot of quality into this place. Good prices and (relatively) friendly employees — not a ‘destination’ record store, but worth stopping by if you’re in the area.

work sent me back to Phoenix again for a week (yes, please send sympathy letters via email) so, to make the most of it, I did a multi-​day record buying binge. I actually only was able to go to 3 places, this place, Tumbleweeds, and Tracks and Wax.
Even though I spent the most dough at Tracks and Wax, i liked Revolver the best of the 3.
this place is one of those perfect sort of disorganized, over-​packed, slighty dingy places which a vinyl lover like me loves to go through.
Pricing was a mish-​mash, they had some stuff which was way over-​priced, but also very cheap, albeit kinda trashed items for $ 1-​$ 3. —-I found some gems under $ 5 as well-…but for example, I scored a Kraftwerk Tour De France 7″ with a messed up cover, with writing on the sleave, and scuffed up vinyl for $ 7.99. I would normally have passed on that, unless it was under $ 5.
The staff seemed too cool for school, but that never bothers me.
All in all, I spent a good hour and half and found $ 60 worth of decent scores here

So, I visited this record store once before, back when they were next to Copper Star. They have since moved locations and greatly expanded. I felt like I was walking into a scene from High Fidelity. The dudes behind the counter were super chill, and answered all of my many (probably a bit annoying) questions about turntables and speakers. Though I didn’t buy a turntable (I was informed that I needed a receiver and they didn’t have one at that time) I still walked out with two Stevie Nicks albums and one by the Fleet Foxes. I can’t wait to get the gear so I can listen to my new stuff, and I will certainly be back for more music. They have a huge selection of all genres, and they are reasonably priced, too! For every ten bucks you spend you get a little punch on your punch card, and once it’s filled (I think) it’s good for ten dollars off your next purchase. All in all, I’d say they spun me right round… ok, bad joke.
Keep it real.

I love record stores. Let me repeat that: I love record stores.
At 14, I was singing the praises of vinyl to anyone who would listen, and so few of my peers understood that music simply sounds better on vinyl. At 25, I’m still a huge fan of vinyl — and continue to build my collection. Now, I recognize that vinyl has sported the tunes of bands like Fleetwood Mac (a fave of mine), Steve Winwood and Ella Fitzgerald, and that these records are in demand and fairly available. For those types of records, Revolver is great. But what disappointed me is the lack of rare or semi-​rare albums. I’m talking The Byrds Sweetheart of The Rodeo, Gram Parsons anything, Emmylou Harris or The Association. Sadly, none of those were found, so I’ll be looking elsewhere.

Being a record nerd in Phoenix used to be a bit more difficult. Granted there are a couple good record stores, ones that as a record nerd I have spent hundreds of dollars at but there was always a void that had to be filled with trips to San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Revolver Records fills that void. Any self respecting record nerd must fill his/​her shelves with obscure Krautrock, Prog, Psych and Jazz. And Revolver has it, along with less obtuse titles. The thing that I find most impressive is that they are always buying records, when going through their new arrivals section it is always full of new things, not the same records that have been there for months. They also have bands play their on First Friday and have live experimental music on sunday nights.
I am so glad that Revolver opened in Phoenix and am glad that I can give them my hard earned cash in exchange for cool records.