KYKentucky field entry
HAIL Records & Oddities
Covington, KY
A MainStrasse record shop gone wonderfully strange, with vinyl bins surrounded by skulls, taxidermy, wet specimens, pinned insects, medical curios, occult supplies, vintage media and wearable art.
HAIL combines new and used records with natural-history oddities, vintage medical and religious objects, metaphysical goods, books, tapes, clothing and darkly unusual gifts.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Record store, used-media shop, natural-history oddities dealer, taxidermy and specimen shop, vintage medical and religious curio store, metaphysical shop, apparel boutique, and unusual gift store.
HAIL does not merely decorate a record shop with curios: music media and serious oddities inventory share equal space, letting a shopper leave with a rare record, framed insect, ram skull or crystal ball from one counter.
HAIL Records & Oddities occupies a compact Covington storefront where record-store browsing and cabinet-of-curiosities collecting happen in the same rooms. New and used vinyl, cassettes, 8-tracks, books, VHS tapes and DVDs sit among skulls, bones, taxidermy, pinned insects, wet specimens, vintage religious objects, medical curios and postmortem reproductions. Metaphysical supplies, jewelry, apparel, patches, pins, soaps, oils, flags, prints and hand-painted Ghanaian movie posters push the shop even further beyond a single retail category.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- New and used vinyl
- Skulls and bones
- Taxidermy
- Wet specimens
- Butterflies and insects
- Vintage medical curios
- Vintage religious objects
- Postmortem reproductions
- Cassettes and 8-tracks
- Metaphysical goods
- Ghana movie posters