CELEBRATING OVER 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS

Best of Boulder most of those years!

Formerly Bart’s Records

7 days a week, 11 am to 7 pm

Come in and browse our collection of new and used records, CDs, cassettes, turntables and accessories, speakers, posters, and more, with our offerings changing each day.

Jazz, soul, reggae, blues, rock, pop, punk, country, folk, bluegrass, hip hop, ambient, and more from around the world…

Our Services

We are always buying used records and can arrange for in-home pickup! Review our Buying Guidelines and call to check if we are currently buying CDs.

We are able to provide appraisals of record collections for estates.

We are glad to special order records or CDs for you.

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LATEST BLOG POSTS

Insider’s Guide to Vinyl Shopping–Japanese Pressings

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Paradise Found Records blog.…

Top 20 Records of 2025

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Welcome to the year-end edition of the Paradise Found Records…

In Celebration of Neil’s 80th Birthday: His Ten Best Records

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No other rock musician has been more prolific over the past sixty years than Neil Young, who turns eighty in November.

Top Eleven Fictional Music Acts

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From Spinal Tap to the Commitments, the Soggy Bottom Boys to Llewyn Davis, Bad Blake and Stillwater and more

Music Memoir Roundup

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The book section at Paradise Found Records is always well-stocked with new and used titles. Here are five recent releases I’d recommend.

Grateful Dead Studio Albums From Worst to First

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2025 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Grateful Dead, an American musical institution still thriving all these years later... To help newbies navigate a large and intimidating discography, here are their studio albums ranked from worst to first.

Ten Best Prog-Rock Albums

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Here is peak prog, presented in chronological order over its less than a decade long heyday. 

Top Five: Bob Dylan’s Best Records

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Not counting live and archival releases–of which there are many–Bob Dylan has released forty (!) albums since his 1962 debut. With rare exceptions all have been original material. To help newbies navigate this intimidating discography, here are his five best albums.

Top 20 Records of 2024

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There are good years for new music and there are great years for new music, and 2024 definitely fit the latter category. It seemed like high-quality new albums were released every week.

Top Five: David Bowie’s Best Records

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2024’s comprehensive Rock ’N’ Roll Star! 5CD box set features a deep dive into David Bowie’s legendary The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars and is a great reason to celebrate a highly influential artist. Nearly eight years after his death, Bowie is still as important as ever and it’s easy to spot devotees across the full spectrum of music.

Beyond One Love: Buyer’s Guide to Bob Marley

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One of the biggest film success stories of 2024 has been the…

Record Store Day is Saturday April 20

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Are you ready for Record Store Day 2024? This year RSD is on…