Welcome to Animal Records

Animal records will open at 8 AM central time on April 12, 2025 for Record Store Day (RSD).   Customers who wish to be first in the door are encouraged to wait in the line on the sidewalk outside of the store prior to opening and will be offered RSD titles on a first come first served basis. 

Please note, Per RSD tradition and our policy, Customers will be allowed to buy as many DIFFERENT Record Store Day titles as they like, but we will not sell the same customer more than one copy of any single RSD title until after everyone in the line has been helped.  We do this so that it is not possible for the first customer in line to buy up every copy of a very popular title that many people in the line might want.  We will also not be holding any RSD titles for customers in advance per the rules of RSD. This is the fairest way to treat our customers. 

Please follow our Instagram page for updates of which titles we receive as we will be posting lists of all RSD titles we receive publicly on Instagram prior to close of business on Friday April 11th so that customers know whether or not we received the RSD titles they are looking for.

Please feel free to call or email us with any questions in advance. 

Thanks Animal Records!

We Buy and Sell Vinyl Records, cassettes and CDs 

We happily special order records tapes and CDs if we do not have the title you are looking for in stock

Phone or Text to sell all types of vinyl records and other music media:  847-868-4846

Animal Records offers CA$H money or store trade credit for any size record album collection. We buy used records 7 days a week in Evanston, Chicago or anywhere in the greater Chicagoland area. We will travel anywhere in the US for large collections.

We are interested in LP Albums, 12″ DJ records, and 7″ 45’s. We buy most genres! We are particularly interested in rock, jazz, blues, house, techno, DJ records, soul, punk, metal, electronic, world/global music, and rap/hip-hop.

Prices paid will vary on title and condition

Call or Text 8478684846 or email animalrecordsevanston@gmail.com to us to sell your vinyl records. You can also bring them to our store Animal records at your convenience Monday through Sunday 12pm–6pm

Or If you prefer to leave your info complete our contact form and we will respond as soon as possible:

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