About The Vinyl Basement: who picks your records?
The Vinyl Basement is a small Dutch online shop run by a team of music lovers. We put together boxes of three second-hand LPs, hand-picked for your taste and checked by hand, with a printed magazine that tells the story behind every record. Our motto is on the logo: expand your music taste.
Why we started The Vinyl Basement
We're a small team with one thing in common: a love of music. Not just the songs everyone knows, but that moment when you put on a record you'd never heard of and can't stop playing it.
Streaming made music endless, but also predictable. The same artists, the same playlists, the same suggestions. We missed the feeling of digging through a crate and finding something that surprises you. So we started The Vinyl Basement to bring that feeling back.
We search through second-hand records, choose three that fit your taste but take you somewhere new, check each one by hand and write the story behind it in our music magazine.
Our goal is simple: to help as many people as possible find music they probably wouldn't have found on their own, and to give good records a second life.
Not just vinyl. A full experience.
How we work
Hand-picked
No algorithm. Our team searches through hundreds of second-hand records and puts every box together personally, based on your genres, artists and vibe.
Checked by hand
Every record is checked for sound and condition before it goes into a box. All records are VG+: light signs of use at most, and they play cleanly.
The story behind it
Every box comes with our printed music magazine, with a page per record telling the story behind the album.
A second life for vinyl
We only work with second-hand records, so existing pressings get played again.
Who writes our guides?
Our guides and blogs are written by the team that picks and grades the records. We write about what we see every day: how records sound, what condition means and how to find music you did not know you would love.
What we do
Genre boxes
Choose a genre (rock, pop, jazz, soul & funk or Mystery) and get three second-hand LPs from that corner. €39.95, one-off.
See the genre boxes →Vinyl subscription
Three records every month or every quarter, picked from your taste profile. A record you already own is swapped for free.
See the subscriptions →Music Gift Box
A personal vinyl gift, matched to the recipient's taste and sent straight to their address. €49.95.
See the Gift Box →What our customers say
★★★★☆ 4.2 out of 5
Company details
- Trading name
- The Vinyl Basement
- Address
- C. van Drosthagenstraat 6, 1382 BP Weesp, the Netherlands
- info@thevinylbasement.com
- KvK
- 98423967
- VAT number
- 868487910
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