Peddling records with his friend-turned-business-partner seemed like a great way out of the game. The idea to start a record shop came when a friend brought a huge collection of records into Theodorow's prior business venture, an antique furniture shop on Hampton. Theodorow grew up in the antique furniture business - his dad showed him the ropes - and though it was a reliable way to make money, he was ready to try his hand at something new. The store's shelving holds a capacity of 4,500 records, Theodorow says, but at present he estimates the shop carries less than half that number. "I'll probably regret it one day," Theodorow laughs. Punk rock staples, and a lot of hardcore stuff. A bunch of those have sold a bunch of original pressings of, like, London Calling and shit like that. I was just like, 'I don't need this many records.' We were short on stock, so I just pulled like 500 records out of my collection. "Even though I'd alphabetize 'em, people would come over and mess 'em up. "I had too many records to ever be able to find what I wanted," Theodorow says. The overwhelming majority of the store's stock consists of used records - much of it from Theodorow's own expansive personal collection. Slayer's Haunting the Chapel, an early Hawkwind record and a number of albums by Judas Priest sit alongside Uriah Heep, Faith, 45 Grave, Tragedy, Power Trip, and on and on. Those records - 1983's Death Church, the British anarcho-punk band's debut, and its follow-up, Cacophony - share shelf space with a litany of other noteworthy albums. "I bet this record shop has two more Rudimentary Peni records than any other record shop in town," Theodorow boasts.
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