Cousins Vinyl is a three-headed vinyl monster of online record store, walk-in dollar record store, and blog. At our online store you’ll find a huge inventory of 45s and LPs: jazz, rock, soul, Motown, funk, bluegrass, blues and more. And now we have a dollar store, with over 20,000 records available for only one dollar apiece. Cousins Vinyl was formed in 2002 by cousins Geoff Anderson and Justin Meyers.
“We were known for having upwards near 20,000 albums for sale online,” Anderson said, touting the glory days of Cousin’s. “At one point we sold a total of 500,000 records in the online store.” But alas, those numbers could not be sustained, and with families and other expenses coming out of nowhere – as they often do – the cousins had to downsize and eventually close up shop. “I had to go back to school and get my degree, so Justin ran the store part-time, but then he had a son and it had to end,” said Anderson, 33, who now teaches special education in the Ann Arbor school district.
