Trusty Chords Record Shop

"Great local shop if you are looking for records or CDs. A lot of variety for everyone. Records are a bit on the pricey side but that’s to be expected with the popularity with vinyl now a days."

"I work in Edwardsville on the weekends and during my lunch break, I was searching for a record shop to see what I could find. Trusty Chords had the answer for exactly what I am looking for in a record shop. Please don't buy into the other negative reviews. The owner was nothing but nice and welcoming when I walked in for the first time. For me, having a smaller record shop is ideal like this one that has the items I'm looking for and many surprises. I went back this past weekend and had an even better experience. His selection is very well curated for my wide range of tastes and I've walked out a happy customer. It's a shame that someone is trying to be vindictive towards an owner who was such a pleasure to speak with. Will be back every weekend to look and will be purchasing most of my new release records from this shop. Support small and local businesses!"

"Me and my friends visited this place to look at some records everything was going fine. As we were checking out, my friend was trying to use her card to pay. The man working at the counter yelled at my friend for not knowing how to use it. Keep in mind this is a card machine IVE personally never seen before. He isn’t helping instead he’s yelling and pointing. My friend comes to me for help and I have no idea what he’s talking about either so I’m no help. He said “are you stupid or something?!” To my friend who’s apologizing and almost in tears trying to get this thing to work. He ends up snatching the card and puts it to the side of the card machine and it beeps. Never seen anything like that before EVER. And he was extremely rude, we are teenagers and just needed help. He just scared us, and for what? Not knowing how to use your weird card machine. Don’t recommend."

"It’s only when you shop a wannabe record store like this one do you appreciate the good ones. Proprietor Colin Anderson, “Tha Don”, “The People’s Champion” (insert other monikers here) should invest more time finding better records for his customers instead of playing internet straw man. I was a customer until finding out what you were up to behind a keyboard. Sick! Being overpriced and bad at customer service are the least of his worries. Copy/paste your usual response Bubba, but a quick scan of Facebook shows the real deal. “Vinyls”? SMDH"

"A wonderful hidden gem in my basic as hell little town. Prices are great and the selection is outta this world. Always has the newest releases in stock. They have a huge selection for the normies and casual listeners. But the true treasure is, they have one of the greatest punk/hardcore/metal sections this side of the river! Can’t believe E’ville is blessed with such a cool record store!"