In a two-story building on Grant Avenue in Millvale, a few minutes north of downtown Pittsburgh across the Allegheny River, Attic Record Store Inc has been buying, selling, and trading vinyl since 1980, giving it more than four decades of continuous operation in a corner of the region’s used-music trade that has seen plenty of shops open and close around it. Owner Fred Bohn has built the business’s reputation less on flash than on consistency: a large, constantly rotating selection of new and used records and CDs spanning nearly every genre and era, with fresh stock arriving on a near-daily basis as collections come through the door.
That steady inflow is central to how Attic operates. The shop actively solicits collections of any size, from a single milk crate of 45s to entire basements full of LPs accumulated over a lifetime, and Bohn has built a name locally for paying competitive, top-dollar prices rather than lowballing sellers the way some used-media buyers do. For larger collections, the store will arrange to come to the seller rather than requiring everything be hauled in, a service that has made Attic a go-to option for Pittsburgh-area families handling an estate or a downsizing move as much as it is a shopping destination for collectors.
Customers looking for something specific are not left to comb the bins alone. Attic accepts want lists and handles mail order and special-order requests, connecting hard-to-find pressings with the collectors searching for them even when the title is not currently on the shelf. That kind of hands-on matchmaking between buyers and inventory is increasingly rare among used-record shops that have shifted toward pure walk-in, cash-only models, and it reflects a shop built around long-term relationships with regular customers rather than one-off transactions.
Millvale itself is a small riverfront borough with an increasingly active independent business scene, and Attic Record Store has been part of that landscape since long before the current wave of vinyl-collecting nostalgia made record shopping fashionable again. The shop’s longevity means its bins hold genuine depth across decades of pressings, not just a curated selection of recent reissues, giving serious collectors a real chance at finding original pressings and out-of-print titles that newer shops simply have not had the decades of intake needed to accumulate.
For anyone in the greater Pittsburgh area looking to sell a record collection, track down an elusive pressing, or simply spend an afternoon flipping through decades of vinyl and CDs under one roof, Attic Record Store Inc at 513 Grant Avenue in Millvale remains one of the region’s longest-running answers, a shop where four-plus decades of buying, selling, and trading music have built an inventory depth that is difficult for newer competitors to match.
