Where Are The Most Talked About Record Stores In The Country?

Vinyl enthusiasts tend to be very loyal to their favorite record stores. When you have your local shop, you know how the music is organized, which staffer can help you find that perfect single for your partner's birthday, which listening station's headphones are a bit busted in the left ear. Which means finding a hidden gem of a store can be just as exciting as combing through records to find that mint-condition, limited-edition album.

While some enthusiasts try to keep their favorite haunts a secret -- legendary punk record store Generation Records had only 76 reviews and Williamsburg's Rough Trade didn't even make the top 50 -- many people still take to Yelp to gush over their favorite stores. As it turns out, record collectors in California are much more eager to share reviews of their favorite stores than enthusiasts in New York.

To compile this list of the 50 most-reviewed record stores, International Business Times searched for the top 10 most-reviewed record stores on Yelp in the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.

Click around on the map below to see the most-reviewed records stores in the country:

The Top 10 Most-Reviewed U.S. Record Stores on Yelp:

1. Amoeba Music, Hollywood

   1282 reviews
   Hollywood, CA

2. Amoeba Music, San Francisco

   1042 reviews
   The Haight, San Francisco

3. Easy Street Records and Café

   325 reviews
   Junction, Seattle

4. Rasputin Music

   243 reviews
   Union Square, San Francisco

5. Waterloo Records & Video

   218 reviews
   Downtown Austin, Texas

6. Reckless Records, Wicker Park

   196 reviews (as well as 160 reviews for the Lakeview location)
   Wicker Park, Chicago

7. Twist & Shout

   163 reviews
   Denver, CO

8. Newbury Comics

   161 reviews
   Back Bay, Boston

9. Aquarius Records

   152 reviews
   Mission, San Francisco

10. The Sound Garden

    151 reviews
    Baltimore, MD