• We buy every kind of genre of music.

• All the prices that we tell you in this section are for CDs that are in very good to excellent condition. They may have a few fingerprints or light surface scratches, but they are basically in new condition. No major scratches or gouges.

• We pay from 10 cents to 10 dollars for used CDs. It depends on
  1) the price they sell for used. Obviously a CD we sell new for 3.95 will get less than a CD we sell used for 9.95.
  2) Supply and demand.

Things we pay a lot for

• Artists that have stood the test of time. We pay $5-6 each for a full price CD.

• New Releases. We pay $5-6 each for a full price CD.

• Classic "midline" CDs. These are CDs that sell for less new, but are still highly desirable albums. We pay $3-4 each for a mid price CD.

You can assume that artists that have survived the test of time, like Bob Dylan, Beatles, Pink Floyd, 70s era Yes, Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, E-40, Notorious B.I.G., Stevie Wonder, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, NWA, etc., all major jazz artists recorded before 1980, older blues, salsa and latin before 1980, serious classical music, most reggae and international artists, like Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs, Salif Keita, Fela, Baden Powell, or Cheb Khaled will be worth $5-6 per disc for full price domestic titles. This is an extremely incomplete idea of the list of artists that don’t depreciate.

Fallen Artists

• On the other hand, there are some CDs where there’s way more people trying to sell them than people who want to buy them, so regardless of list price, the used offer is much lower. Artists that fall into this category might include Blackstreet, N*Sync, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, later Boston, Neil Diamond, or Kenny G. People don’t want these things anymore, so we have a hard time selling them, and consequently we can’t pay you much for them. We might pay 10 - 50 cents for one of these CDs in new condition.

• To find out the actual price we will pay for every CD, just bring them into the store. We will tell you individually what we’ll pay you for each CD. We scan the CDs into our computer database, so you’ll get the same price at all stores. We buy during the entire store hours, 7 days a week. You’re under no obligation to sell any or all of your CDs. We have no problem if you bring us 100 CDs and you only take our offer on half of them, although this rarely happens because we pay the most for all CDs.

DVDs have almost completely taken over from VHS as the mainstream media for watching movies at home. There are 100,000+ DVDs in print currently, and that number is rising. DVDs are subject to the same rules of supply and demand that govern what we can pay for used CDs. Most DVDs that are classic titles, frequently make top 500 lists, foreign movies, or less common films are worth $4-8, if they sell for 19.99 or more new in stores and on the internet. Budget and reissues that have a lower new price are worth $1-5. Super budget DVDs that sell for less than $5 new in stores and online, we pay 50 cents to $1.
We're the only store that doesn't penalize for having Blockbuster or Hollywood video stickers on them.
Sometimes the supply exceeds the demand for certain titles, and as a result our offer price goes down to $1-2 or so.
We want every kind of DVD including kids, adult, sports, documentaries, cult, martial arts, foreign, horror, action, television shows, and just about anything else you can think of.
One of the fun things about DVDs are the many different box sets available. We'll pay as high as $20-30 for select box sets.

Selling us your used LPs