Incredible LA record store is also city's lowest rated because of owner who brags about being rude to people who know little about music

The oldest grounds shop successful Los Angeles is besides nan lowest rated online because of its proprietor who admits he is an intimidating figure.

Sanders Chase has tally the Record Collector for much than 50 years and musicians including Michael Jackson, Notorious B.I.G., Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones person walked done his doors. 

His shop is filled pinch 500,000 classical and jazz records pinch different 300,000 successful storage.

But Chase's shop is nan city's lowest rated grounds shop pinch 1.9 stars connected Google reviews owed to his guidance style. 

'Of people I’m intimidating,' he told SFGate. 'See, this is my problem. They’re curiosity seekers. Curiosity killed nan cat.' 

Chase becomes disappointment erstwhile customers do not cognize what they want and aimlessly browse done his extended grounds collection. 

'Make a database and travel back, because that’s fundamentally really we do it,' he told 1 man who said he was conscionable looking around. 

'We make judge you get immoderate guidance and past seriousness of purpose. We activity from that.' The customer nodded and quickly walked out. 

The Record Collector, which opened successful 1974, is nan lowest rated grounds shop successful nan metropolis pinch 1.9 stars aft 262 reviews connected Google.

'Total nightmare experience,' 1 personification wrote. Another said: Honestly nan worst grounds shop connected Earth.'

Most of nan complaints situation Chase and his norm that group should not conscionable browse nan records but cognize what they're looking for.

'If you went to a expert aliases a lawyer aliases a mechanic, aliases immoderate professional, you’re location for a purpose. If they travel here, I’m not present to entertain people,' nan proprietor said. 

Asked if his behaviour is simply a obstruction to immoderate people, he responded: 'Well, I don’t care.'

He gets really irritated erstwhile he asks customers what their favourite genre of euphony is and they do not know.

'They springiness maine nan cervid successful nan headlights look, like: "I don’t know,"' Chase said. 

'That’s why we’re here. This is to service you. You don’t want to thief maine thief you.

'It’s for illustration going to people and taking a test. You don’t return a trial without studying. So erstwhile you travel successful here, beryllium prepared.'

He purchased his existent location for $500,000 successful 1999 truthful does not struggle pinch nan rising rents successful nan area. 

Chase developed an liking successful records aged 12 and concisely played nan violin pinch nan Charlotte Symphony Orchestra successful North Carolina. 

He believes everyone should person a grounds postulation but that companies are taking advantage of nan interest. 

'[Companies are] taking advantage of nan request for records without having nan due engineering and nan due methodology of making them nan measurement they did before,' he said.   

'So older records sound better. Vintage vinyl, that’s nan measurement to go.' 

Despite putting much than 50 years into nan business, Chase is fresh to waste and put it connected nan marketplace wherever he is looking for conscionable nether $5million. 

This fig does not see his records aliases nan business and is conscionable for nan property. 

'I’ve been doing this for complete 50 years. I’m not going to do it for different 50,' he said. 

'It would person to beryllium transferred to a logical entity aliases persons that had a akin sensibility to me. I don’t want to return a wrecking shot to it.'