Ergot Records

What a fun new find! I hadn’t ever been here before and I’m delighted I stopped in. The bargain items outside the store caught my eye (I found two great classical records for a buck each) and then spent nearly two hours browsing and listening to their great selection of LPs. I found several really great albums including a mint box set of tangos from the 1920s, some excellent vintage blues records, and a jazz LP I’d been searching for years! Friendly staff and chill vibe. Check it out!

We were totally newbies and went there to do a school project about records. The owner was super helpful and patient with our questions and very knowledgeable about vinyl records and music in general. So grateful!!

What a great store! Nice diverse record collection. My daughter is adding her 5 stars here too, lately she’s been getting into record collecting and she was especially happy to find that set of Velvet Underground tapes. We’ll be back soon.

One of the best record stores in New York. They always play very esoteric music, when you stop in. Feel the true East Village spirit.

Stumbled upon this record store by chance after having visited the more well known stores in Manhattan during my stay. I found one of my favourite disco records in their crates at a reasonable price. Small but great curation across genres.

Random lucky find on my lunch break. Such a great spot for rare finds. Very chill store with knowledgeable staff as well.

Friendly and polite staff and great variety. I found a Hall&Oates album for a very affordable price there in really good condition and it sounds great. You should definitely check-out this place!

I stumbled upon this store while on vacation from Ireland. The young lady working that Wednesday couldn't have been any more helpful and informative. I picked up a bunch of records at a fraction of the price I'd normally pay back home if available. Great selection of records and a great atmosphere. I highly recommend you take a visit if you are in NY and are serious about your vinyl. Thanks for a great experience . Regards Stuart.

What a fun new find! I hadn’t ever been here before and I’m delighted I stopped in. The bargain items outside the store caught my eye (I found two great classical records for a buck each) and then spent nearly two hours browsing and listening to their great selection of LPs. I found several really great albums including a mint box set of tangos from the 1920s, some excellent vintage blues records, and a jazz LP I’d been searching for years! Friendly staff and chill vibe. Check it out!

We were totally newbies and went there to do a school project about records. The owner was super helpful and patient with our questions and very knowledgeable about vinyl records and music in general. So grateful!!

What a great store! Nice diverse record collection. My daughter is adding her 5 stars here too, lately she’s been getting into record collecting and she was especially happy to find that set of Velvet Underground tapes. We’ll be back soon.

One of the best record stores in New York. They always play very esoteric music, when you stop in. Feel the true East Village spirit.

Stumbled upon this record store by chance after having visited the more well known stores in Manhattan during my stay. I found one of my favourite disco records in their crates at a reasonable price. Small but great curation across genres.

Random lucky find on my lunch break. Such a great spot for rare finds. Very chill store with knowledgeable staff as well.

Friendly and polite staff and great variety. I found a Hall&Oates album for a very affordable price there in really good condition and it sounds great. You should definitely check-out this place!

I stumbled upon this store while on vacation from Ireland. The young lady working that Wednesday couldn't have been any more helpful and informative. I picked up a bunch of records at a fraction of the price I'd normally pay back home if available. Great selection of records and a great atmosphere. I highly recommend you take a visit if you are in NY and are serious about your vinyl. Thanks for a great experience . Regards Stuart.

This is an ok store, fairly neat, interesting selection with good prices, and the selection always changes. Worth a look!

I stumbled into this store while looking for records in the East Village and I'm SO GLAD I did! The selection is small but WONDERFULLY curated, I swear every single record was weird and unexpected and covetable. Plus the prices were ON POINT. I picked up some really excellent scores - a Don Cherry double LP, a rare Art Blakely record, a Karen Dalton reissue and a very suprising Alvin Lucier find - and somehow dropped less than $100. All the staff were kind, or high, or both, which made things even better and more magical. On my short list to visit again this place again when I'm back in NYC.

Not sure what one of the delusional reviewers are saying here, because this store doesn't even have a bathroom lol, but all I know is that the workers here are all mad cool and very knowledgeable about music, and the prices are very fair for a lot of rarer music that other shops in the neighborhood usually don't carry.

The East Village has a bunch of record shops but Ergot is a hidden gem. Snagged Powell's "Sport" for only $5 (Powell is a British producer and DJ who spins Suicide during sets at Berghain and somehow manages to sample Big Black for a banging techno track). It is also at Ergot that I had one of the greatest scores in my years of digging. I found an excellent copy of Moodymann's "Sinner" for $30 (it goes for up to $300 on Discogs). It was in a white generic sleeve and somebody scrawled "MOODYMANN SINNER" in black permanent marker. When I saw it, my jaw dropped. For all I know, maybe Moodymann himself wrote those words. (Moodymann is an elusive house legend from Detroit who releases his highly coveted records in small quantities. Google "GQ and Moodymann" to get a sense of the man's reputation. I met my boyfriend during a Moodymann set in Detroit. Sort of. During the time spent waiting for Moodymann to arrive, my dude and I talked and fell in love. Sadly, Moodymann never showed because he got into a car accident, but I credit him for bringing my dude and me together. Thank goodness, he's now recovered!) Ergot carries cool finds across rock, jazz, soul, and electronic music. Definitely worth a stop.

Such a great shop and friendly staff. Genuinely curious and knowledgeable about many genres of music, and fair prices and offers on when I've sold records in there. The owner Adrian has helped me track down copies of rare small labels' releases that aren't with big distributors and gone out of his way to try and make a space that is welcoming of everybody that comes through the door. I've worked in records stores and come across some insane snobs, and Adrian is not one of them. Awesome shop.

owner was extremely rude when i asked genuine curious questions to get to know him and the store better and learn more about music. didnt do anything disrespectful or aggressive, genuinely just asked "what does the cool logo mean" & "what are your favorite covers". he seemed offended/annoyed i would waste his time with those questions so i said it was for a website (it wasn't, i was just saving face because i thought i said something wrong) and essentially gave me a death glare telling me to leave even *after* i purchased a cassette tape. there were no other customers except 2 who were busy browsing, he was not packaging anything or busy. if i had a body cam on me any poc could tell what he did was not okay in the slightest. could've been racially motivated, not sure - but he absolutely was nowhere near as kind or friendly to me as he was with one of the older white customers who came in to purchase a vinyl. there are some nonsense 1 star reviews for this shop on google like the guy complaining about the bathroom. this is not one of those reviews as i rarely ever care enough to do this. the fact that he did this on a religious holiday irks me even more. if you are new to music or poc or both, AVOID this place. i know its difficult to trust 1 star reviews as theyre often posted by entitled customers or unreasonable people, but please trust me when i say this experience was as close to the truth as possible. go to a friendlier, more inclusive place and save yourself the trouble. he reported my google review and it did get removed because i messed up with language, but i will be contacting google to get my review back up on there as well.

Awesome selection of classic house/deep house and reasonable prices. Love this place!

Super friendly owner with a very quirky yet interesting selection. Highly recommended!