On the interactivity of vinyl and nabbing that Alice Coltrane Lord of Lords record before anyone else

Revolver stacks up pretty well against other stores in town (Tracks in Wax, Memory Lane, Rock Zone). If anything, the selection definitely beats the bins at Zia Records, which touts itself as "The Last Real Record Store." Every time I've been there, my most interesting vinyl finds were a couple of warped, 99-cent copies of Earth, Wind, & Fire's Spirit. Not good.

Tempe's Eastside Records is most definitely my personal favorite. It's been around forever, the inventory is banging, and the staff's a curious bunch. When a clerk comes across an undesirable record, he'll buy the album and toss it on the building's roof. Another time, according to urban legend, an employee became so irate after discovering a Whoopi Goldberg Christmas LP that he grabbed the album, hiked down his drawers, and turned Goldberg's recording into an Eastside special poo-poo platter. (I'm glad I heard about this after the fact.)

Ed Piskor

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Revolver Records

918 N. 2nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Category: Retail

Region: Central Phoenix

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Back at Revolver, nobody is taking a shit on the merchandise, thank goodness. At this point, I've been here for about 45 minutes and the place is still busy. I'm definitely impressed. If a record store can be busy on a weekday afternoon — especially in Phoenix, where people refuse to leave their homes during rainstorms — it must be a healthy time to be a vinyl nerd.

I'm over in the rock-soul-pop section, looking for anything by The Main Ingredient, when a guy tells Jordan, "Man, there's no better job than owning a record store. You get to sit here and listen to music all day." True dat.