Music
This record store had so many vinyl records it collapsed
by Richard Howard
June 24, 2015
I’ve got buddies with pretty impressive vinyl collections, and they’re always trying to one up each other by talking about how cumbersome they are. “Man, I had to move last week and my records alone took two car trips!” “Oh yeah? Well when we cleaned out my vinyl room we found my mountain bike that I’ve been missing for two years!” Sit down, kids – this San Diego thrift store has got you beat. Thrift Trader had been hoarding so many vinyl records on its second level that the floor actually collapsed. This was no coincidence either; a city safety engineer determined that the collapse was indeed caused by the weight of the records that had recently been moved into the building.
Thankfully, the collapse happened at 4am and no one around to be injured or worse by 200 pounds of discarded Phil Collins records. The only downfall of a collapse at that time? Missing the opportunity to see a gaggle of hipsters dash across the street and dig through floor-vinyl no differently than if they were digging in crates.
