Out of business! At first I was happy to find a vinyl record store close to my hotel. After a…read moreshort ten minute walk I was greeted by a TO LET on the window and an empty store. It looked like a great place to shop.

This is a small but well curated used record store. They have LPs, CDs, 45s, 12" singles, and…read morerelated books on music. The titles I sampled were all in excellent condition and priced reasonably. The staff was welcoming and helpful.

The CD lives!…read more Record stores with this much charm are rare. This shop is a heaven for music lovers and throwback officianados. Walls and walls of CDs and records surround you in visual organized cacophonic bliss. Also has a lovely book collection with a sweet owner who sits peacefully at the front if the shop to greet you and is not a pushy salesperson at all. Enjoy! It's a rare piece of charm and history.

Absolutely massive inventory covering all genres and consisting of both new and used stock. Very…read morewell organized and good prices. *important to note there are two separate storefronts with separate entrances!* on the left is all things rock and on the right is jazz, soul, R&B, and reggae. Plan to spend a long time crate digging here. Mostly vinyl with a decent amount of CD inventory in the same genres. Best selection and vibes I've encountered in Paris.

I've read the one star reviews from others claiming that the staff is not friendly and the store is…read more"not for collectors". They are full of it. Crocodisc's staff are friendly and go out of their way to help you find what you are looking for. They even make great recommendations. I love this store and make sure I visit whenever I'm in Paris. I alway find fantastic items at reasonable prices. Thanks Crocodisc. Vous etes le meilleur!

Got a chance to visit this shop while in Paris. It was pretty cold outside and I was quickly warmed…read morewhen u heard Donnie Hathaway pumpin' in the background - Heaven. Great shop that has a great selection of all types of music at decent prices - Highly Recommended !

This shop is amazing. Tons of good used soul, jazz and African music. Lots of great reissues as…read morewell. Separated into new/used/new arrivals. nice sound system.

Best record buying experience in Paris. Are you looking for original pressings? Hard to find or…read morerare LPs... this is the spot. The prices are a little high, but everything is in great condition... and it's a brick and mortar shop... I don't mind paying a little extra for the experience of digging and finding something "in the wild" that I've been searching for. The owner was amazing. Such a nice guy... you can tell he's liked in community around him as well. People walking by waved to him and he had a couple friends stop by who were also super friendly. We talked music and travel. I highly recommend the shop. Go in. Buy some records. Talk. Hang out. Good stuff.

Great selection, but I'm convinced they don't actually want to sell records. We would have bought a…read moreton if they weren't 50% higher in price than anything on Discogs.

Heartbeat was one of only a couple stores in Paris where I was able to find records I was looking…read morefor. And given that Heartbeat is more on the small side, that really says something about their selection! Flipping through the bins, you'll definitely spot a lot of records that are surprising to see. They had some cool factory records that you don't always expect to come across. Similarly, their new arrivals section was peppered with a bunch of titles that were of interest (or would have been, if I didn't own them already.) This was where I picked up a copy of a Josef K record. On the side of the store, what looks like it could be an employees only type area, there is a large fixture with records spine out. There are genres here, but I would definitely recommend leveraging the knowledge of the staff on what areas might suit you the best. And finally, pricing was about average compared to other stores I visited in Paris, which is to say fair for what it was. Cheers!

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In general, I didn't have much success in my record shopping Paris. Silence de la Rue was one of…read morethe few stores where I purchased something. It's a good-sized store, though not nearly as big as it should be for the amount of stock they have. This was very much my biggest pet peeve here. All the bins were stuffed full to the point where you could not flip at all. It meant pulling several records out of each row everytime you wanted to browse through. But this was worth doing in that their selection was strong across many genres. I ended up walking away with a cool Tighten up collection. Otherwise, I would say pricing and service were about average here compared to other stores I visited. That is to say, records were priced fairly and the staff let you do your thing without too much fuss. Check it out if you're in the area!

Good for new vinyl and reissues. A very small used vinyl selection…read more Records are packed in pretty tightly so it makes it hard to browse.

The shop no longer carries new bande dessinee and only has a small very miscellaneous stock of…read morecheap, used BD.

I only went there for the VINYLS! They have a box in the…read morefront of the store 0,50 euro any vinyl. The box is updated every few hours. Inside there are about 24 drawers with vinyls but NO order, NO specific category, but they add the new arrivals every few hours. The vinyls have small white labels with the date of entering the store and the price. Inside the store only the PROMO drawer has vinyls at 0,50 euro. The prices of vinyls from the other drawers are from 1 euro to 10 euro (most are over 3 euro), but there are only used vinyls, most of them with classical music (walses, opera, concerts) or french music. I spent few hours today browsing EVERY vinyl and I can say there are few american vinyls, most french or french edition or french music. I was lucky to find Sam Brown "Stop" single and Sandra "Maria Magdalena" single. There is also another section with 45 RPM singles at 1 euro piece. I could see a clerk labeling the fresh-received vinyls with a label gun. He brought the vinyls every hour and put them in the "NEW ARRIVALS" box. The CDs are sealed with some transparent tape and there was a tentative of alphabetical order (you could see some names, letters) but the chaos was the best word to descriebe that area. The plastic bags for the vinyls/books/etc are free :D

I could only find a little time, since I was walking and found this place randomly. On the ground…read morefloor there are amplifiers, radios and turntables, these people repair these artifacts. On the first floor are the records ... There is little space, it is not very large. Finding an album is a bit difficult for reduced space and the amount in each box. With regard to attention, it is not entirely friendly ... but what rescues the place is the amount of albums that can be found. I was here in 2016 but I will return in this 2023, maybe I can add more things.

As far as record stores are concerned, this one gets a passing grade from me. However, I found the…read moreoverall set up to be incredibly cramped and not to be what I expected from the Parisian record store. Basically, there are two floors when you walk in. The bottom filled with equipment, the top stacked with vinyl. I'm not a big guy, but even for someone like me, it was difficult to maneuver through the maze. Of course, I perked up when I came across a rather large selections of the classics: Beatles, Stones, Neil Young, Bowie, etc. Even a few rarities found their way into my rolodex. But for the pressings, the prices didn't add up. I made my way to the contemporary section to find Foo Fighters, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots. There just wasn't enough to hook me in. Overall, the experience was more of an inconvenience because of the tight space and disorganized set up. There were definitely some good finds, but to me it really wasn't worth my time and effort.