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Records in the RAD

4.8 ★★★★★ 64 Google reviews · Record store · Art gallery

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37 Paynes Way #003
Asheville, NC 28801

(828) 280-1899

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Hours

Monday 11 AM–5 PM
Tuesday 11 AM–5 PM
Wednesday 11 AM–6 PM
Thursday 11 AM–6 PM
Friday 11 AM–6 PM
Saturday 11 AM–6 PM
Sunday 12–5 PM

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What collectors say again and again

The things reviewers keep bringing up across 64 Google reviews — in their own words.

🖼️ posters & merch 2 mentions

“Bonus points for cool t-shirts, posters, artwork, and air conditioning!”

What customers say

My wife and I own a record shop and any time we visit a new town, we always make a point of hitting all of the local record shops. Today we visited Records in the RAD and dang…it is easily one of the best curated shops we’ve been in.

★★★★★ — Rust, 2022-04

I'm a sucker for an old industrial section near a river and a railroad system. There's a certain type of person that knows what I'm meaning here. So when a developer or group of small businesses, comes to breathe some life back into a whole area, and yet retains something still within human scale which is harder to…

★★★★★ — Cemetery, 2023-09

This record store is small but MIGHTY. I found a ton of great vinyl I haven’t seen anywhere else recently, and the art is amazing (and for sale!). Definitely a good variety of punk and hip hop, but not a huge variety.

★★★★★ — Sam, 2025-02

So excited to finally get to this store! Great layout, good selection of new and used records and fair prices, and a better selection of art and books and vinyl adjacent goodies then most other shops. I like the genre classifications, too. The owners were super nice and happy to talk music. It's legit!

★★★★★ — Damon, 2022-11

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