Best Denver Record Store (Westword, 2003)
We're 100% independent & highly disfunctional!
Black & Read
7821 Wadsworth Blvd.
Arvada, CO 80003
Phone: (303) 467-3236
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
www.blackandread.net
New & used Records, CD's, books, music, gaming, posters, stickers, patches, etc. etc. etc!
Located on the Southwest Corner of 80th & Wadsworth in Arvada (15 minutes from Denver and Boulder). We always strive to find and carry merchandise that larger stores do not have. We're constantly buying new and used items, so our stock is always changing and growing. We usually have at least 15 employees who all reflect a broad range of tastes, interests, phobias and manias. We're the 'Dirty Dozen' of retail.We offer an extensive and eclectic collection of the avant-garde and alternative. We carry new and used vinyl, cds and even the occasional 8-track and reel-to-reel. Our record collection consists of tens of thousands of pieces including rock, post modern, punk, avant-garde, blues, jazz, hip-hop, soul, goth, new wave, industrial, rockabilly, country - just about everything.
Our book selection is really impressive also. We carry both new and used books. Many of our new books are 25% to 50% off of the cover price! Some of our more popular categories for new books include beat literature, viking/norse/celtic/druidic/thelemic/masonic/wiccanic/occult books, mead/beer brewing, fantasy & lowbrow art, swords, knights/samurai, Lovecraft/Robert E. Howard & Weird Tales authors, anything published by Taschen, (even though our rep sucks), and of course tons of role-playing books. (Wizards of the Coast, White Wolf... etc...)
Our store is also filled with accessories such as T-shirts, posters, jewelry, magazines, videos, tarot cards, gaming cards, piercing jewelry and more. Our tshirts, belt buckles, patches and stickers may be drunk or sober orders, so we never know what we're going to have. We're pretty much one stop shopping for the unusual stuff that you can't find anywhere else. You should stop over and look around... you'll probably end up buying something. We get bitched out every day by customers spending their rent money.
We also have an mini-store at 44th & Wads. It's a little hole-in-the-wall with piles of cheap as hell books, records, video games & CDs.