Tucked into a basement level space on East 10th Street in Manhattan’s East Village, Limited To One Record Shop is a husband and wife run vinyl store built specifically around the culture of collecting rather than simple browsing. Kristian Sorge and Nichole Porges founded the shop with an explicit goal, stated plainly on their own site: to encourage record collecting, offer a wide array of limited and rare vinyl, and become a genuine destination shop for music lovers visiting or living in New York City.
The store’s genre focus sets it apart from a general used record shop. Limited To One leans into punk, hardcore, indie, metal, hip hop, emo, screamo, and 90s alternative, while still keeping jazz, soul, funk, and classic rock in the mix for collectors with broader taste. Stock includes LPs, 45s, and cassettes, with an emphasis on limited pressings and rare releases that are harder to track down at a typical big box or chain record store. The shop also runs its own label, LTO Releases, documented on Discogs, giving it a direct hand in putting new limited pressings into circulation rather than only reselling what other labels have already released.
Limited To One is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 7 in the evening, closed Mondays, at 221 East 10th Street, basement west, in a stretch of the East Village dense with independent shops and music history. Beyond the retail floor, the shop sells merchandise through Bonfire, offers gift cards via Clover, and runs a Patreon for supporters who want a closer relationship with the business, including access to mail order arrangements handled directly through Instagram and Patreon messaging.
What makes the shop stand out locally is its role as a connector within the city’s live music scene. Limited To One has partnered with nearby venues including Music Hall of Williamsburg, Irving Plaza, and Warsaw, running concert ticket giveaways and cross promotions that tie record shopping directly to seeing bands play live. The shop participates in Record Store Day with curated, in store only exclusives, and it collaborates with touring artists and independent labels on limited pressings sold nowhere else. It also rents its basement space out for special events, turning the shop itself into a small venue on its own terms rather than only a retail counter. On top of the music side of the business, the shop has used its platform responsibly, posting community alerts warning fellow small businesses about payment fraud schemes making the rounds, a reminder that Limited To One sees itself as part of a wider small business and music community rather than an isolated storefront.
Merchandise beyond vinyl includes CDs, books, apparel, art prints, zines, and stickers, rounding out a shop that treats record collecting as a full culture rather than a single transaction. For anyone searching for a hard to find pressing, a rare 45, or simply an East Village record store with real ties to the city’s live music venues, Limited To One Record Shop is a husband and wife owned destination built specifically for collectors, seven days a week except Monday, in the heart of the East Village.
