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PRESERVING RECORD SHOP now has THREE locations in the Pittsburgh area.

 

THE MEGA STORE: our original (and largest location) can be found on the main floor of the New Ken Social complex at 1101 5th Ave New Kensington, PA 15068! While we initially focused on Underground genres such as Metal, Hardcore, Punk & Alternative in our early years we have grown to become a truly all-encompassing shop which, at this point, has more Jazz than Metal and a Taylor Swift record for every Dying Fetus.

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THE BARGAIN OUTLET can be found less than one block away at 1005 5th Ave New Kensington, PA 15068. Here you will find at any given time nearly 10,000 CDs all priced at $2 alongside another 10,000 LPs organized by genre, alphabetized and priced between $3 and $5!

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We have recently opened our newest store in the Dormont neighborhood of Pittsburgh which is aptly named PRESERVING RECORD SHOP: DORMONT. The address is 1431 Potomac Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15216 and mirrors our original location but with entirely different titles and constantly growing!

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All stores are open 7 days a week. Our Dormont location has standard hours of 10 AM - 9 PM (close at 7 PM on Sundays and Mondays) but the nature of having an interconnect conert venue (www.preservingconcerts.com) at our New Kensington Megastore location has us posting hours for the week every Sunday night. We are open at both the Megastore and Bargain Outlet at least 11 AM - 6 PM every day with extended hours on weekends and show-nights.

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724 980 5170 is the shop phone for New Ken.

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724 980 5169 is the shop phone for Dormont.

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BUY / SELL / TRADE

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PRESERVING takes prides in paying fair, transparent prices for collections both large and small.

 

Finding himself frustrated with other stores often making insulting offers, owner AJ Rassau found himself sometimes traveling as far Japan in order to receive fair trade-in values for his collection.

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Over the past 7 years of running the store, it has become a sense of personal pride to send customers away feeling good about not only the amount of cash or trade value they received, but the fact that they know their collection is being given the time and respect deserved and, most importantly, being put into the hands of a new generation of music lovers.

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While most small trades can be handled in a short time span, larger collections of higher-ticketed items can be dropped off, researched overnight and an itemized spreadsheet will be made available with a breakdown per unit.

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We also are willing to travel for large collections to be inspected with offers made. Please call into the shop to make these arrangements.

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We are open to any and all forms of music. Full length albums from the 60s to today are preferred but anything will be given the time of day.

 

We do not take 45s, 78s or 8 Tracks (unless you are looking to donate them).

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HISTORY

 

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Initially opening in the basement of the magistrate building in April of 2019, the store managed to not only survive, but thrive, in 2020 throughout the shutdowns.

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The store took this time as an opportunity for growth and purchased a large, former Presbyterian Church right next door to the original location.

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Expanding out over the next few years into hosting multiple concert venues in the same building, an even larger expansion took place for the store in late 2023 when the inventory of the revered Double Decker Records took place.

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Bringing in 4 semi trucks worth of media (well over 100,000 LPs and over 100,000 CDs) required the opening of a second store less than a half of a block from the original location.

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This location quickly outgrew not only the square footage but also being known as a "sister store" and we made the move into Dormont for more space and more distance as the inventory grew into such a monster that it couldn't, in good conscience, exist a mere block away from the Megastore.

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Wanting to keep our footprint right in the town center of Downtown New Kensington and also needing space to house the 300,000 CDs we recently purchased (April 2026) we repurposed the space at 1005 5th Ave (previously Preserving Vinyl) into the Bargain Outlet which has become a destination for crate diggers and bargain hunters alike.