About Us
Europe’s foremost soundtrack shop
The Record Album
The Record Album, which opened in 1948, sells all kinds of music from pop to classical but specialises in soundtracks, cinema and theatre. Just 30 yards from Brighton Station, it was recently described in Garth Cartwright’s new chronicle of the UK record shop, Going For a Song, as “as Europe’s foremost soundtrack shop”.
Perched above Brighton Station, The Record Album is at once an anachronism and ultramodern...a treasure chest for the odd, the obscure, the marginal and, obviously, the movies. Inside The Record Album, I feel as if I'm in an exotic locale, some fantastic place. A sensation the best record shops have always inspired.
Garth Cartwright
author 'Going for a Song, a Chronicle of the UK Record Shop' (2017)
Anyone who loves Brighton, movies and record stores will find nirvana here.
The Independent
This store has long been a favourite of connoisseurs and collectors
Music Week
Un paradis pour les collectionneurs maniaques!
Les Inrockuptibles
Voted by experts among the top UK record stores
The Guardian
It is no wonder that The Record Album possesses such an enviable reputation as the UK's destination of choice for movie soundtracks on vinyl.
Long Live Vinyl
2018
This is a record-breaking shop in its own right, having opened in 1948. The shop has a well-deserved reputation for specialising in film scores and soundtracks.
Graham Sharpe
Author 'Vinyl Countdown' 2019
The sign in the window sums the shop up well: The Record Shop for Connoisseurs.
Graham Jones
Author 'The Vinyl Revival and The Shops That Made It Happen' 2018
My opening port of call in Brighton is normally The Record Album shop, a wunderkammer of vinyl just uphill from the station.
Travis Elborough
The Guardian 2022
The New Owners
Once curated by the legendary George Ginn, who has just retired at 88, The Record Album has passed to new owners, Keith Blackmore and David Chappell, who are determined to keep up its traditions for lovingly cared for records of all varieties. The shop is open five days a week and buys and sells records.
A record shop legend
Until his retirement in 2018, George Ginn was Brighton’s longest established record dealer with the little blue-fronted shop at 8, Terminus Road the third premises it has occupied. With an unrivalled knowledge of film soundtracks and original theatre cast recordings, George had observed the music industry’s peaks and troughs, trends and curios from the early 1960s and established The Record Album as one of Brighton much loved cultural landmarks. Sadly he passed away in 2023, aged 93.