Bought 2 Djembe’s from here. Love this place. for the size they have a lot of equipment.
Great customer service!
What a beautiful store! Enjoyed visiting and received excellent customer service. Thank you!
Small, funky music store.
My favorite music store, have bought and sold many guitars and amplifiers there over the years.
Small shop with a familiar feel. We found what we came looking for – the Suzuki cello book 4 and an endpin rest. We also had fun looking at some instruments. We’ll visit again when we need something in the future.
Do not come here for electric instrument repairs. When I brought my bass in, I was simply told that my issue was non-existent. After I came in and demonstrated my instrument’s issue, the repairman instructed me to buy a specific input jack from the manufacturer’s website. Then when I brought the new input jack to the repairman he told me that I bought the wrong kind of jack. He offered to buy the part off me. Afterward, I called the manufacture website and discovered that I had actually bought the right part, and the repairman was incorrect. I brought my bass in again, where he claimed to have fixed the issue. But this was only temporary – my instrument is experiencing the same issue it had several months ago. I am not sure if this repairman is inexperienced or if he just blew me off.
Several friends have told me similar stories about this character from New York. I am disappointed because I’ve heard great things about the other luthier who works through this establishment.
I’ve been there 4 times since moving here.. just sucks.. over priced and very limited and you cant get any help shopping.they lost mega cash cuz they wouldnt even talk to me.try 2 street in eureka they sold me a few nice guitars at a really great price and…customer service lol..it’s really for college kids not real musicians.
2. People’s Records
Address: 725 8th St, Arcata, CA 95521 , Arcata , California , United States
The staff and owner are always helpful and knowledgeable. They take the time to help me with obscure requests. I try to order music through them as much as possible, with delivery being speedy. I like the vibe and flow of the store. They have new and used vinyl and cds in many genres.
Awesome record store, really great selection of vinyl. I always find something I have to have. Great friendly customer service. A well curated shop!
Bestest of the bestest
Just go!
Nice but overpriced
For a little record store, this place carries a pretty good selection. The staff is also very helpful when I can’t find what I’m looking for and are pretty knowledgable in music. I do, however, wish they were open just a little later. There have been a few times now where I’ve wanted to swing by after work or dinner, but they were closed.
Went into this record store and bought a brand new vinyl. I am playing this record on a brand new $300 Sony turntable player and I already own this exact vinyl record in a different color variant so I was surprised to hear half of the songs on side B had warp Issues, static and didn’t play right. I take this record back into Peoples Records the next day and the owner tells me that he will listen to it on his record player and see if there is an issue. The speakers in this store are so old and so burned out that you can barely hear anything so I ask him to turn it up he tells me that 80% of the time there is an issue with one of his vinyls it comes from the customer buying and using a cheap record player. At this point I am irritated and tell him that doesn’t make sense and I’m sure he gets new vinyls that just don’t play right on occasion and the owner again said it’s very rare. So then guess what? The record did the same warped thing on his player! So I told him he was wrong and he told me he would give me my money back but I had to leave the store and not come back. So I told him he could take his $35 Midnights album and stick it up his a$$. Better to avoid this guy at People’s Records and just shop online.
The Owner has responded below and I was nothing close to unhinged. He was assuming I was less than smart and had a cheap record player. I was not yelling at him what would I be mad about I got my $35 back. There was only one person in the store. If anything the owner was yelling and couldn’t even tell me why he was so mad. He had zero argument and it killed him to have to refund me my money. His cheap a$$ didn’t even give me my tax back as he tossed $35 on the counter. And he indeed heard the album defect because once I told him to turn it up it was obvious to everyone. At first he didn’t turn it loud enough because he DID NOT WANT TO HEAR THE ISSUE PLAY BACK so he could tell me I was wrong and reject my $35 return. He also heard the issue clearly because I said, “Well there is your once in a lifetime occurrence of a bad new sealed vinyl sold at your store sir.” He then said he would give me my money back only if I left the store??? I said believe me I was never coming back, and I did tell him he would be getting a bad review. The record selling buisness must be tight.
Exploitive pricing – even more expensive than buying from the scalpers on Discogs. I visited again after many years and 9/10 records I pulled off the shelf were heavily scratched and there’s no way would have played clean. There was a new record I was interested in being sold for more than $50 but the going price is just over $30. A complete waste of time unless you want the nostalgic experience of buying records in-person. Better to wait and buy records when visiting big cities.
I tried to like this place over the last two decades but it’s always the same.
