Olympic Records – 580 Wickenden Street, Providence Rhode Island 02903
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At a destination wedding to Providence (the happy couple went to Brown), I found the top record store Providence had to offer sitting just around the corner. Opened six years ago by Kevin Morosini, pictured below, the store is a nice size, and has many records in many genres to offer. You can listen before you buy, in case you have any doubts, or forgot what the record sounded like. And he has any number of 45 boxes (like the one he is holding that I bought below) as well. Recommended on your next trip to Providence.
Wanna go? You can find Olympic Records on our Record Stores Map
In addition to a psychedelic 45 record box (pictured above) I also bought the Gestures’ Run Run Run a 60s garage record on Soma, and the Byrd’s 45 Eight Miles High with a picture sleeve.
Here’s a link to an article that appeared in Providence Journal on December 1, 2016 Providences Olympic Records Caught Vinyl Wave about the store and its history.
And here’s a more recent article from Providence Monthly Off the Wall: Waxing Poetic About Vinyl at Olympic Records published on October 1, 2019, interviewing Kevin Morosini about his store and its offerings.
I hope that Big Star record pictured in the article’s photo is a reissue. If its not, I hope the author of this article bought it! If you don’t already know Big Star, you can find out a little about them on our article about Goner Records which also includes a You Tube video of one of their best songs September Gurls at the article’s end (its a live version, but still pretty good).
Finally, here’s a video tour of the store, courtesy of the Rhode Show from May 2017.
