Vinyl Heaven

Vinyl Heaven is a one-man record store in Overland Park, opened in 2018 by Jeff Todd, who had spent years selling records out of a Westport flea market booth before taking a lease of his own. It began in downtown Overland Park and now trades from the Louisburg Square shopping center on West 87th Street. The stock is bought, sold and traded across LPs, 45s and 78s, plus CDs and the sleeves and mailers collectors need — curated rather than piled, with the proprietor’s stated policy of not stocking damaged records.

Description

Vinyl Heaven is an independent record store in Overland Park, opened on 1 September 2018 and owned by Jeff Todd.¹² It describes itself simply as “a neighborhood record store,” and the operating model matches the phrase: Todd runs it alone, a choice he framed at opening as the trade-off that made the venture possible in the first place — no staff to cover, and no obligation the business could not meet on its own takings.¹²

The shop buys, sells and trades. Stock runs to new and used LPs, plus 45s and 78s, CDs, and the ancillary supplies a collector actually needs — replacement sleeves and shipping mailers.¹ The site states a curation policy rather than a volume claim: damaged records are not stocked, and the selection spans a range of price points rather than concentrating at either the bargain or the collector end.¹ At opening Todd’s stated stocking target was around 12,000 records, weighted to rock, blues and jazz, with the intention of broadening into contemporary releases.²

Todd came to the shop from the trade rather than from outside it: he had worked in other music stores and sold records from a booth at the Westport flea market before opening.² He also operates J Todd Music, an agency booking musicians and DJs into live events — a separate business, noted here because it is his, not because it trades from the shop.²

The store has moved once. It opened at 7319 W 81st Street in downtown Overland Park and now occupies a unit in the Louisburg Square shopping center at 9411 W 87th Street.¹² No source located this pass dates the move.

Goods and services

• New and used LPs — buy, sell and trade¹²
• 45s and 78s¹
• CDs¹
• Record sleeves and shipping mailers¹
• Special order — records ordered in for collection at the store²
• Stock weighted historically to rock, blues and jazz, broadening to contemporary²

History

Jeff Todd opened Vinyl Heaven on 1 September 2018 in downtown Overland Park, at 7319 W 81st Street.² He had previously worked in other music stores and traded records from a Westport flea market booth; the shop was his first lease of his own, and he described the step at the time as both “scary” and “exciting.”² Operating single-handed was a deliberate structural choice: he told the Johnson County Post that running solo let him manage the business without needing employee coverage.²

The store subsequently relocated to the Louisburg Square Shopping Center at 9411 W 87th Street, where it trades today.¹ The date of the move, and the reason for it, were not located in this pass and are flagged below.

Vinyl Heaven appears in the Kansas City Magazine guide to metro record stores alongside the city’s established shops, and carries a Record Store Day store listing, which is the trade’s own current-participation register.³⁴

Sources

Links

• Website: https://www.vinylheavenkc.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VinylheavenKC/
• Record Store Day listing: https://recordstoreday.com/Store/23078

Footnotes

1. Vinyl Heaven — official site — asserts: “Vinyl Heaven is a neighborhood record store”; address 9411 W. 87th St., Overland Park, KS 66212, in the Louisburg Square Shopping Center; phone (913) 499-7442; email vinylheavenkc@gmail.com; hours Monday-Friday 12-6, Saturday 10-6, Sunday 12-5; sells new and used vinyl LPs, 45s, 78s, CDs, record sleeves and mailers; buys, sells and trades; states a curation policy of not stocking damaged records and of carrying a range of price points; owner referred to by first name “Jeff.” Primary currently-operating proof. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Johnson County Post, “New vintage record store Vinyl Heaven opens in downtown Overland Park,” 14 September 2018 — asserts: owner Jeff Todd opened Vinyl Heaven on 1 September 2018 at 7319 W. 81st St., Overland Park; stocking goal of roughly 12,000 records weighted to rock, blues and jazz with plans to expand into contemporary music; Todd buys, sells and trades new and gently used vinyl; he previously worked at other music stores and sold records from Westport flea market booths; he also owns J Todd Music, an agency connecting musicians and DJs with live performance events; Todd described the venture as “scary” and “exciting” and said operating solo let him run the business without employee-coverage concerns; opening hours noon-6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

3. Kansas City Magazine, “Drop the Needle: A guide to KC’s record stores” — asserts: Vinyl Heaven is listed among currently-operating Kansas City metro record stores, alongside Mills Record Company, Josey Records, Sister Anne’s, Planet Queen, GotWhatULike, FM Music Vintage Sounds, The Rock Shop, Good Vibes Vinyl, BlaKCat Vinyl and Brothers Music. Used here as a corroborating currency check and as the discovery source for this lane’s candidate list. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩

4. Record Store Day — store listing, Vinyl Heaven — asserts: Vinyl Heaven holds a Record Store Day participating-store listing, the trade’s own register of currently-trading independent record shops. Note: this URL was surfaced by search and its listing content was not read directly this pass — a direct fetch returned no extractable body. Recorded as a pointer, not as a read source. (Attempted 2026-08-14.) ↩