Melody Records

Great vinyl selection! The variety of genres and artist really make your visit worth while.
The only thing is that they don’t seem to have their prices in check. I had found a Pat Benatar record in the dollar section, and an amazingly well kept Neil Young record for $ 3. When I went to pay for them, along with the other records I found, the cashier told me that someone had switched the price tag on the Neil Young record, and they could not sell it to me. Unfortunately, I had to leave it behind, but I paid for the rest of the records and left. Now about half an hour later I was walking past the store on the way back to my car when the cashier came running out of the store and told me that the Pat Benatar record was actually $ 3, and I still owed them two dollars. Not wanting to give her any problems, since she was very kinda and polite during the check out process, I immediately gave her the two dollars she claimed I owed them. What really got me was that she told me she had found evidence of someone who had tried to change the price of the records I had bought and accused me of attempting to steal from the business. Now coming from the LA area, brown students like me are often accused of things we never did. And while I understand her suspicions, my only advice for the store is to keep a better eye on their customers so that people don’t have to go through crap like that when shopping at Melody Records.
But overall, pleased with the records I took home that day.

Where do you go for music. Well mostly on line, but try a record shop in a college town. Chico’s Melody Records has tons of vintage vinyl! I went on a sunday the store was quiet a little music was playing on a high quality turntable. The posters hanging from the ceiling reminded me of the small poster/​record shops of the 70’s and 80’s. They had a vinyl record selection that was bigger than any I had seen for a while. They deal mostly in used vinyl and CD music. There were many titles that I would have concidered rare. We bought alot of music at very reasonable prices. I thought it was a good deal I EVEN BOUGHT THE GRATEFUL DEAD POSTER! If you are really into music old and new you need to check it out if you have the chance.

Wall to wall records and some hippie things, oh my. For a college town, this record shop is decently priced with a good selection of new and used vinyl, CD’s and random hippie stuff.
The staff seem pretty knowledgable and they were playing Pavement’s «Slanted and Enchanted» when I walked in. While I didn’t walk away with some rare finds, I like visiting, browsing and seeing what’s hot in the area.
Prices seemed within reason but I was looking for certain titles which I didn’t find the day I stopped there.
Overall, this shop made me hum some melodies I hadn’t hummed in years. If I’m in the area again, I’ll probably stop inside. I just can’t resist a good record store.

This place is the spot! Only record store in town and they always got good stuff. They have another rasta store attached to it too! Great place great people!

When I moved to Chico, I hit up this place several times over the first few weeks, and the vibe is great, the selection is great, and the pricing is really good too. I’m not sure how much new inventory they bring in, but I typically check in there every few months and seem to find something cool on cassette or vinyl (the only tolerable forms of music media in my opinion). Check this place out — if you know what’s good for you!

Legit little sound hole. Not only do they stock necessary catalogue, but there is also an impressive scope of less-​lauded selections and local jams for the digging. Plus, I rarely get excited by poster collections yet I became oddly fixated on their wall offerings. I think this distracted me from the vinyl bins by way of a prominently placed poster-​sized photo of the Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb Test which just goes to show: record stores are next to antique boutiques for their «anything goes» way of diverting one’s attentions from everyday mundanities. This place is no exception.

It’s the only record store in Chico, and I can’t encourage others enough to go spend time browsing the huge selection and supporting this awesome local business.

I don’t know how much time I spent in here yesterday. By far my favorite store in Chico. I added some great vinyls to my collection for a relatively cheap price. I embrace an establishment actually dedicated to the art of music and not the capitalism and greed other business have veered towards.

nice little shop. i can easily lose track of time and spend over an hour there and still feel like i haven’t looked at everything. a lot of the prices seem fair enough compared to other shops i’ve been to. overall its an all right place.

I love this little place and am sad I live so far away now. It’s your typical record store with a cute bead/​hippie/​random stuff in the back. Filled with mostly older records, you can snag some good finds here. They also often have cool screened posters up on the wall for sale.
I wish I lived closer! I need my fill of old records, incense, and worry dolls.