If you are rock fan looking for a place to buy vinyl disks or music CDs in Warsaw this is the first…read moreplace to come to.
Since I do not own a CD player nor listen music on CDs I won't talk about them, but, from what I saw there at least 1000 different CDs and I guarantee that you can find all the more popular albums (especially the rock related ones) in this store.
On the catalogue:
Now, on vinyls. There are a couple of 2 meter shelves full whit vinyls who are turned on the thin side, therefore you cannot even count them.
There is also table in the center of the room, again filled with vinyls. Trully a big collection of rock albums, however I also saw a shelf dedicated to electrical music if I remember corectly.
On the value:
It's preety cheap considering other locations nearby. I think it's the cheapest place if I take a look only on the White Album from the Beatles.
The only downside might be that the value is weirdly placed (inside the cardboard\paper material where the vinyl sits). On some records there are even two prices written on them which can be confusing.
Also, you can pay both by cash or card.
On the quality of the products
Even though the vinyls weren't new, (I mean they were resealed) they were intact. There wasn't any micro-malformation on them. They played perfectly. You can even test them inside the store.
However, judging on the unimportant part of the album, the cover, they look like they are at least 10 to 15 years old.
On the staff
I saved the best for last. The staff.
When I arrived there, a man was placing or rearranging some vinyls on shelves, and right when I walked in he offered his help. I declined at first but realised I needed it since it was preety hard to find any album by yourself.
When I asked him what I was looking for (some of the Beatles studio albums) he came to the shelf, grabbed and half-pulled the vinyls and told me that all of the Beatles's albums are in that section.
Whilst browsing the disks I saw one (Magical Mystical Tour) whose price was around 150€. When I asked him if the price was in euro or in zlots, he told me that it was in euro because the record was a rare special edition made, or recorded in Malaysia (without asking why). Then preceded to calculate the price in zlots.
Then I asked for some of Scorpions albums which, again, he knew the exact place of them, whom he pulled out of the shelf for me to browse.
The most impressive part about it is that there wasn't any computer to help him. He just knew where everything was.
I ended up buying a Scorpions record and afterwards I asked if he had some Pink Floyd albums, also mentioned that I had 11 of their studio albums and I was just curious. He showed them to me and also shared that he went to the Battersea Power Station (the building on the cover of Animals). Then we briefly shared some opinions on the 2018 remix of it and then I left because it was closing time.
Therefore, like me, the man was also a Pink Floyd fan, like me, which doesn't hurt the review.
Furthermore, he spoke a perfect English, not a broken one like most Polish places.
Overall this was one, if not the best experience I've ever had with a staff in a store.
