The Chicagoland Record Show: Where to Find Us (and Sell Us Your Records)
You'll Find Us at the Chicagoland Record Show — Three Tables, Sold Out by Noon
Every show in Countryside, We Buy Records Chicago runs three tables — the most popular bins on the floor. We bring 2,000–5,000 LPs, price every record at $5, and we're usually picked clean by noon. Most of those $5 records are honest bargains: clean-playing copies of records that book at $20 and up.
There's a reason the bins are always that deep. We buy record collections across Chicagoland every single week — and the show is the front of the house. The buying is the engine behind it.
Selling a collection? Cash offers · No obligation · Serving Illinois, Northwest Indiana & Southwest Michigan
Where Those Records Come From — and Why It Matters If You're Selling
Nobody fills three tables with $5 bargains out of thin air. Every record we set out in Countryside came from a collection we bought somewhere across Chicagoland — an estate in Oak Park, a basement in Naperville, a lifetime of records in Berwyn. We're at the show because we're buying constantly, and the show is simply where the surplus lands.
That's the difference between us and the out-of-state operations advertising online. We're not a mail-in service in another state and we're not a reseller platform — we're local people you can actually shake hands with at the show, who buy collections here, in person, for cash. When you sell to us, you're dealing with the same hands that have been sorting Chicago records for years.
So if you have records to sell — ten boxes in the attic or a wall of LPs from a parent or grandparent — you don't have to wait for the next show or haul anything anywhere. We come to you, pay cash on the spot, and your records may well end up in those bins a few weeks later.
Have Records to Sell? Skip the Hauling.
Text us a few photos of what you've got and we'll tell you what it's worth and what we'd pay — no charge, no obligation. We're not a chain or a reseller platform. Cash on the spot, house calls 7 days a week across Chicagoland and Illinois. The same buyers you'd meet at our tables come straight to your door.
Serving Illinois · Northwest Indiana · Southwest Michigan
Planning to Visit the Chicagoland Record Show
One of the longest-running and largest record shows in the Midwest — dozens of dealers, thousands of records, 45s, CDs, and music memorabilia all under one roof.
▸ When: Every two months, on a Sunday (check the show's Facebook page for the next date)
▸ Hours: General admission from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ($5 at the door)
▸ Early bird: 7:00 AM entry for serious diggers ($15) — this is when the best records move
▸ Find us: Look for the three busiest tables on the floor — all $5, all fresh from recent Chicagoland collections
Come early, bring cash, and dig. And if you've got records of your own gathering dust, bring a photo on your phone and find us at the show — or text us anytime.
Chicagoland Record Show — FAQ
See You at the Show — or at Your Door
Come dig the $5 bins in Countryside, or skip the trip and let us come to you. Either way you're dealing with real Chicago record buyers — cash on the spot, house calls 7 days a week, no obligation. Text a photo of your collection and we'll tell you what it's worth.
We buy rock · soul · funk · jazz · blues · R&B · punk · rare 45s · full collections of any size
Serving Chicagoland, Illinois, Northwest Indiana & Southwest Michigan