Omaha's oldest and best record store! Hard to find vintage vinyl as well as the newest releases. Homer's also has cd's, cassettes, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, turntables. I could go on but you get the idea.
April 2024
I worked at Homer's in the late 1980s when vinyl was king, and we all also had tape decks in our cars and boomboxes. And then CDs came in, with their bright new digital sound, and we bought those. And Homer's Records and Tapes changed with the times and became Homer's Music and Gifts. And then music was online and it was free! Well, stolen maybe, and that was a big blow to record stores and to artists. And then, somehow, people started to remember how things had just sounded better, all along, on vinyl. And you could hold this in your hands, and enjoy looking at the cover, and if you were lucky there would be an inner sleeve with lyrics. And sales of new... read full review
March 2024
Moved mountains to ensure I got an album order even when there was a distribution issue and even though it wasn’t their fault. It’s a very good reason to not go anywhere else, except for very specific releases that are artist’s online store only releases. Big box stores wouldn’t have helped me out like Homers did.
Omaha's oldest and best record store! Hard to find vintage vinyl as well as the newest releases. Homer's also has cd's, cassettes, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, turntables. I could go on but you get the idea.
I worked at Homer's in the late 1980s when vinyl was king, and we all also had tape decks in our cars and boomboxes. And then CDs came in, with their bright new digital sound, and we bought those. And Homer's Records and Tapes changed with the times and became Homer's Music and Gifts. And then music was online and it was free! Well, stolen maybe, and that was a big blow to record stores and to artists. And then, somehow, people started to remember how things had just sounded better, all along, on vinyl. And you could hold this in your hands, and enjoy looking at the cover, and if you were lucky there would be an inner sleeve with lyrics. And sales of new... read full review
Moved mountains to ensure I got an album order even when there was a distribution issue and even though it wasn’t their fault. It’s a very good reason to not go anywhere else, except for very specific releases that are artist’s online store only releases. Big box stores wouldn’t have helped me out like Homers did.