Crazy Beat Records

Mostly second-hand vinyl and CDs in varying condition at reasonable prices heaped ‘n racked in genres without much fuss or bother. There’s enough.
Specialising in Soul, RnB, hip-hop, funk, disco, garage and kindreds with a dabble of rock and a smattering of whatever else.
A formidable on-line presence with a wider ranging inventory and frankly, better spread/quality stock.
Pricing reasonable here with bargains for the persevering digger.

I’ve been at this shop 5-6 times. Never bought less than 10 records from them. At least 3 times, when I went back home, I found out that they did the math wrong and they charged me an extra pound or two. I know that this is partially my fault as I should check my change but the fact that the mistake is always working on them charging more instead of less is a but weird.
The main reason for giving them a one star review is because I ask for some stuff from their Discogs account. I placed orders (this happened more than once) with the option of collecting the records and pay at the shop and they always, cancel my order (without my permission) and ask me to pay at the shop the listed price. So they save money from Discogs fees but they don’t discount the products based on the fee. Dodgy.

This is such an odd shop! It has all its hip-hop, soul, funk, jazz records out in the racks like normal. But only has a couple of racks of rock bargains. I asked if they had non-bargain rock records, so I was shown a computer with their discogs site and told to search on that if there was anything I wanted. I found 4 records (about £120) and told the shop assistant. He then told me, do you definitely want to buy those, I said yes, but obviously I will look at them first. He answered, oh no you can’t look at them as they are all checked out before we put them on discogs. This is just such a weird thing to say: the shop assistant is going to get the records for me, but I am not allowed to look at their condition when he hands them to me:

They have hundreds of singles outside the shop 50p each, i found 3 sparks & 1 Jethro tull didn't have the time to go through the whole lot

Great shop with a great selection, and friendly staff. Would highly recommend to vinyl collectors!

Just sold some old records to Crazy Beat. Very helpful service with what I thought was a good price. Would recommend to anyone
looking to buy or sell. Thanks Gary

These guys know their business and are super friendly. I love that you can buy on discogs, but also that you can visit the shop and dig for hours with racks and racks of vinyl thst are not on discogs. I always come away with some great records at very decent prices. ✊️

Ordered via Discogs which clearly says I could pick up from the store. Have the store a call to confirm. Got a call back five minutes later saying that it’s against their policy to sell to me. Wasted my time having set off and they were unable to give me a reason why. They had the stock but wanted me to come into the store and discuss why I was purchasing.

Something dodgy here. Beware.