Easy Street Records and Cafe

What Easy Street Records and Cafe does

Easy Street Records and Cafe is a privately held independent record store combined with an on-site cafe, located in West Seattle, Washington. The company was founded in 1988 and sells a broad catalog of physical music media — including new vinyl records (with indie exclusives, colored pressings, and Record Store Day releases), used and rare collectible records, CDs, DVDs, books, games, and turntables — alongside store-branded merchandise spanning apparel, accessories, gift items, and a co-branded 'Easy Street x Caffe Vita INDO 30 Coffee' product. It serves two principal customer segments: music enthusiasts and vinyl collectors (primary) and cafe patrons seeking breakfast, lunch, or dinner (secondary).

Name

Easy Street Records and Cafe

Legal name

Easy Street Records

Website

https://easystreetonline.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Easy Street Records and Cafe is an independent West Seattle record store and cafe, founded in 1988, selling new and rare vinyl, CDs, DVDs, merchandise, and serving food and beverages to music collectors, local patrons, and global online customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Vinyl, CD, DVD, and Physical Media Sales: Core retail revenue from new vinyl records (including indie exclusives, colored vinyl, and Record Store Day releases), used/rare records, CDs, and DVDs. The store features diverse genres including rock, punk, jazz, blues, motown, and Northwest artists.
2. Cafe Food and Beverage: The attached cafe serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Gift certificates note they are valid for 'CDs, vinyl, DVDs, books, games, apparel, breakfast, lunch, dinner...pretty much everything we have to offer.'
3. Merchandise: Branded Easy Street merchandise including t-shirts, hoodies, hats, socks, stickers, buttons, mugs, slipmats, tote bags, sunglasses, patches, ornaments, and turntables. Also offers Easy Street x Caffe Vita INDO 30 Coffee.
4. Gift Certificates: Gift certificates sold in denominations of $10, $20, $25, $30, $75, $100, $250, and $500, redeemable for physical products and cafe items (excluding digital downloads).
5. We Buy Records: The store buys records from customers ('We Buy Records!'), suggesting a secondary market trade-in and resale model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Easy Street Records and Cafe is a privately held independent record store and cafe that retails new and used vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, books, games, turntables, branded apparel and accessories, and gift certificates, while also operating an on-site cafe serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It runs an e-commerce site (easystreetonline.com, powered by Broadtime) alongside its West Seattle brick-and-mortar store, and actively participates in Record Store Day with exclusive and indie-only releases, in-store events, and artist performances.

Product overview

Easy Street Records and Cafe operates as a traditional independent record store combined with a cafe, offering a diverse range of music media products including vinyl records, CDs, cassettes, and turntables. The store specializes in both new releases and rare collectible used records across multiple genres, with particular focus on Record Store Day exclusives, indie exclusive colored vinyl editions, and preorders. The company also sells branded merchandise including apparel and accessories, and operates an on-site cafe serving food and beverages including Caffe Vita coffee. Gift certificates are available in multiple denominations. The business is built on the Broadtime e-commerce platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Easy Street Gift Certificates: Gift certificates available in various denominations

Products and services

• Vinyl Records
• CDs and Digital Downloads
• Turntables
• Easy Street Merchandise
• Gift Certificates
• Cafe Food and Beverage

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• School of RockminorGTM or Marketing PartnerEasy Street Records partners with School of Rock (West Seattle location) through featured content and cross-promotion on the website, including animated banner placements linking to the School of Rock website.
• Caffe VitaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEasy Street collaborated with Caffe Vita to produce and sell 'Easy Street x Caffe Vita INDO 30 Coffee (12oz bag)' — a co-branded coffee product sold at the store, linking the record store brand with a local Seattle coffee roaster.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Amoeba Music: Large independent record retailer with locations in Berkeley, Hollywood, and San Francisco. Amoeba operates a much larger footprint and broader inventory depth but competes for the same vinyl collector, used-record, and indie-exclusive customer that Easy Street serves.
• Rough Trade: UK-origin independent record retailer with stores in NYC and London plus a global e-commerce site. Comparable on indie-exclusives, Record Store Day participation, in-store events, and branded merchandise, though at significantly larger scale.
• Bull Moose Music: Multi-location independent record store chain across Maine and the Northeast with strong used-vinyl, CD, and new-release inventory. Comparable mid-sized independent with broader geographic reach, competing for similar collector and gift-purchaser segments.

Direct peers

• Vintage Vinyl: Independent record store in St. Louis with a deep new and used vinyl focus plus in-store performances. Comparable owner-operated independent retailer with similar event programming and rare-record trade-in programs.
• Waterloo Records: Long-running independent record store in Austin, Texas known for in-store events, Record Store Day programming, and curated new releases. Closely comparable operating model — owner-operated, event-driven, indie-exclusive-heavy, with strong local brand equity.
• Criminal Records: Independent record store in Atlanta, Georgia combining vinyl, CDs, books, comics, and in-store events. Comparable breadth of physical media categories, indie focus, and event-driven GTM.
• Electric Fetus: Iconic independent record store in Minneapolis selling vinyl, CDs, books, gifts, and apparel. Electric Fetus is even directly cross-linked from the Easy Street website's menu, underscoring direct peer comparison across product mix, indie focus, and gift/merchandise revenue.
• Everyday Music: Large independent record store in Portland, Oregon with deep used-vinyl and new-release inventory across formats. Same regional Pacific Northwest market, similar hybrid of new/used catalog, and competes for the same regional collector and gifting customer.
• Strictly Discs: Independent record store in Madison, Wisconsin with a curated new-vinyl focus, in-store events, and Record Store Day programming. Comparable single-location owner-operated model with strong community engagement and genre curation.

Regional players

• Sonic Boom Records: Independent record store in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood with a strong used-vinyl and new-release focus. Directly comparable regional peer given shared Seattle geography, similar vinyl/curation positioning, and overlapping Northwest Sounds customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EasyStRecords
• YouTubeyoutube.com//user/EasyStRecords
• Facebookfacebook.com/EasyStreetRecords
• Instagraminstagram.com/easystreetrecords
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/easy-street-records-corp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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