Olympic Records – 580 Wickenden Street, Providence Rhode Island 02903 – Open – updated January 22, 2026.
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 in 2011 by Kevin Morosini, pictured below, the store is a nice size, and has many records – mostly used – in many genres to offer. Prices were reasonable. 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.
Oh, and by the way – the groom wore black and the bride white. And she looked fabulous.
Wanna go? You can find Olympic Records on our Record Stores Map
What The Press Is Saying
Seek Alternate Route #2: Olympic Records by Peter Keough, is a 2025 interview with store owner Kevin Morosini. Its a good in-depth piece, letting you know how Morosini came to be running a record store. He picked a good store to model his on – the great Mystic Disc of Mystic Connecticut. And who can’t love a guy who’s first piece of advice on how to get more engaged in music is “Listen to it Loud!”
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).
From the Providence Daily Dose comes this 2024 article Olympic Records On Wickenden. The author searched in vain for a connection between the store and the Olympics, then being held in Paris. But she did find out why the store was named Olympic Records. As I interpret, everything else was taken. But it does look good on a t-shirt.
Video Store Tour
The Rhode Show posted a video tour of the store in May 2017, which will give you more of an idea of what the store has to offer.
And here’s a more recent video tour, on Instagram, of the store in 2024.
Cool Vinyl Bought There
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 are the Gestures, performing Run Run Run. From 1964, this was a regional mid-west hit on Soma. While it wasn’t on Lenny Kaye’s original Nuggets collection, it did make the 4 disc reissue in 1998. By the way, the car in the video is a 1960 Chevy Corvair.
Oh, Patty Duke played two “twin” cousins – Patty and Cathy Lane.
