A Main Street storefront in Catskill, New York has spent every day since April 7, 2018 buying and selling used vinyl records, cassettes, and CDs under the name Spike’s Record Rack, a small independent shop at 395 Main Street in Greene County, roughly midway between Albany and Kingston along the west bank of the Hudson River. The shop’s model runs in both directions: alongside a browsable stock of secondhand vinyl, tapes, and discs spanning multiple genres and decades, Spike’s Record Rack actively buys collections directly from the public, which keeps the racks refreshed with newly acquired material rather than relying only on a fixed, aging inventory. That constant churn is part of what makes the shop worth repeat visits, since a collector who checks in every few weeks is likely to find records that were not there on the last trip.
Catskill village itself has become something of a small hub for antiques, art galleries, and independent retail over the past decade, drawing weekenders up from New York City alongside longtime Greene County residents, and Spike’s Record Rack fits into that same wave of small specialty shops that have repopulated the village’s historic Main Street. Rather than a generic thrift store bin of records, the shop presents itself specifically as a destination for vinyl, cassette, and CD collectors, a narrower focus that lets it build a more knowledgeable, dedicated customer base than a general secondhand store carrying music alongside furniture, clothing, and housewares. The shop keeps an unusual six-day schedule built around its Wednesday closure: open 11 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon Sunday through Friday, with extended hours until 6 on Saturday, giving weekend record hunters a slightly longer window to dig through the stock before closing.
The buy-side of the business is a meaningful part of its identity in the Hudson Valley collector scene, since a shop willing to purchase full collections, rather than only accepting small drop-off consignments, becomes a natural first call for families clearing out a relative’s record collection or a longtime collector downsizing a home library of vinyl. That steady inflow of traded-in and purchased collections is also what allows a shop of this size, in a village the scale of Catskill, to maintain a rotating and genre-spanning stock rather than a static one built entirely around a single owner’s personal taste. For collectors specifically hunting vinyl rather than a mixed secondhand experience, that purchasing model tends to produce more surprises on the shelf over time.
Spike’s Record Rack can be reached directly by phone at 518-618-1311 or by email for questions about selling a collection or checking current stock before making the trip out to Catskill. Operating on Main Street since the spring of 2018, Spike’s Record Rack is a Catskill, New York record shop built around buying and reselling used vinyl, cassettes, and CDs, open six days a week and closed only on Wednesdays, and it remains a straightforward, collector-focused stop for anyone hunting secondhand music along the Hudson River’s western shore.
