Tag: Fort Wayne record stores

Wrecka Stow: Welcome Back Records – Fort Wayne, IN

Located at 3019 Broadway in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Welcome Back Records can be spotted by their great sign outside the building.

Yes, they’re in the old Wildwood Liquors building and I hope they never get rid of that sign.

The staff is great here, and the vinyl collected is well-curated. It has a comfortable vibe as soon as you walk in the door.

Dollar bins!
Live Nirvana bootleg!

Their prices are good, especially when it comes to CDs.

I will shop at your store if you have BOGO on your CDs. I scored albums by Interpol and Gas Huffer from these racks. If you need still more ways of playing your music, they have cassettes, too.

And, yes, they have 8-tracks.

How are you going to listen to all this stuff, you ask? Easy. Just buy your stereo from them.

They pack a lot of neat stuff into the small space, and it’s well worth a trip down Broadway to find it.

Keep your mind open.

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Wrecka Stow: Wooden Nickel Records & Tapes Budget and Collectors – Ft. Wayne, Indiana

The “Budget and Collectors” location of Wooden Nickel Records & Tapes in Ft. Wayne, Indiana (3422 N. Anthony) is one of the first record stores I went to way back in high school when I finally had access to a car. I bought many records there and hadn’t been there in decades. It was nice to see the place still in business and still offering a lot of good stuff.

They pack a lot of stuff into the space, and one thing that hadn’t changed was them offering a lot of good stuff at low prices – new and used.

$5.00 new CDs? You have my attention.

The collector and limited edition stuff is still there. There are plenty of box sets, rare records, and, yes, tapes – cassettes and eight-tracks.

Average cassette price? Three bucks.

They sell records, of course. They have a whole section of 45 records, all kinds of LPs, and even some picture discs on hand.

That P.i.L. picture disc alone…

Check it out if you’re in town. There’s a lot there and you can get a good amount of it for cheap. I scored a live Buzzcocks album and Donald Fagen‘s classic The Nightfly for barely over ten bucks.

Keep your mind open.

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