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Good Vibes Vinyl opened on Main Street in Midtown in the summer of 2025, a buy-sell-trade record shop dealing in used and vintage stock — classic rock, funk, country, jazz and DJ material — with a gaming area at the back that makes it as much a place to stay as a place to buy. It trades seven days a week and its stated motto is “Stay Tuned. Be Weird.

Description

Good Vibes Vinyl is an independent record store at 3703 Main Street in Midtown Kansas City, trading since the summer of 2025.123 It is structured as a buy-sell-trade shop rather than a new-release retailer: the site’s own framing is “Used & Vintage Records,” and customers can sell and trade as well as buy.1

The stock runs to classic rock, funk, country, jazz and what one metro guide characterizes as “DJ gems” — crate material rather than catalogue reissues.2 The shop opens seven days a week, later on Fridays and Saturdays, which is unusually broad availability for a shop under a year old.1

The feature that separates it from the metro’s other buy-sell-trade shops is a dedicated gaming area, described in coverage as making the store double as a hangout.2 That is a deliberate dwell-time model — the same instinct that puts a coffee counter in a bookstore — and it is worth recording as a business-format fact rather than a decorating detail.

The stated motto is “Stay Tuned. Be Weird. Keep Vibin’!”1

The business is registered as Good Vibes Vinyl LLC and holds a North Kansas City Business Council membership listing under that name, at the Main Street address.4 The council membership is geographically unexpected for a Midtown business and is flagged below rather than explained.

Goods and services

  • Used and vintage vinyl records1
  • Buy, sell and trade — the store buys from and trades with the public1
  • Stock weighted to classic rock, funk, country, jazz and DJ material2
  • Dedicated in-store gaming area2
  • Online sales presence via an eBay seller account under the goodvibesvinyl handle5

History

Good Vibes Vinyl opened in the summer of 2025 at 3703 Main Street in Midtown.23 KCTV5 covered the opening on 21-22 July 2025 under the headline “It’s all ‘Good Vibes’: New vinyl shop opens in the metro,” which fixes the shop as trading by that date.3

The business is under a year old at the time of drafting and has no further history to record. It appears in the Kansas City Magazine guide to the metro’s record stores, which is corroboration of current trading.2

No founding narrative — who opened it, why, or from what background — was located this pass. That is a substantive gap in this page, and it is flagged rather than filled.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Good Vibes Vinyl — official site — asserts: address 3703 Main St, Kansas City, MO; phone 816.530.2275; hours Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; specializes in “Used & Vintage Records”; customers can buy, sell and trade; motto “Stay Tuned. Be Weird. Keep Vibin’!”. No owner name and no founding date appear on the site. Primary currently-operating proof. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Kansas City Magazine, “Drop the Needle: A guide to KC’s record stores” — asserts: Good Vibes Vinyl, 3703 Main St., in KCMO’s Midtown, is a buy-sell-trade store that opened over the summer and doubles as a hangout spot with a dedicated gaming area; it buys, sells and trades vintage vinyl with a selection spanning classic rock, funk, DJ gems, country and jazz; hours Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; phone 816.530.2275. Listed among currently-operating metro record stores. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. KCTV5, “It’s all ‘Good Vibes’: New vinyl shop opens in the metro,” 21-22 July 2025 — asserts: by its headline and publication date, that a new vinyl shop named Good Vibes had opened in the Kansas City metro by 21 July 2025. The article and video body were NOT extractable — a fetch returned the page header and publication date only, with no transcript or body text. Cited solely for the fact of the opening and its date, which the headline and datestamp carry; no owner, address or quote is drawn from it. (Attempted 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. North Kansas City Business Council — member directory listing, Good Vibes Vinyl LLC, categorized “Retail Boutique” — asserts: the registered business name is Good Vibes Vinyl LLC and the member address is 3703 Main St. Corroborates the trading address and establishes the LLC entity name. Retrieved by curl with a browser user-agent. No owner or principal is named in the listing. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩

  5. eBay — seller account goodvibesvinyl — asserts: a seller account exists under this handle, surfaced in search alongside the store’s other listings. Recorded as a probable online sales channel. The account page was not read and the handle was not confirmed as belonging to this business — eBay handles are not unique to a trading name. Treat as unverified until checked. (Surfaced 2026-08-14.) ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/good-vibes-vinyl · record updated 2026-08-14