Pagal Records, a music store in Hauz Khas village in Delhi is trying to revive public praise in Vinyl Records

A door filled with music -related stickers welcomes the Wanderers who discovered the Hauz Khas village in the Pagal record, which is an independent record store stocked with vintage vinyl, CDs and posters.

Above the entrance, a painted mark urges customers to fight for good music. Inside, stores, walls are adorned with shelves packed with cassette tape for sale. They capture qawwalis and bhajan to do Raj Kapoor’s hit and much more. The record crate is intercepted with a vintage band and an array of the Bollywood poster. First glance is enough for a music lover who realizes what variety in the store.

Pagal records a decade ago a Vinyl Collector, which was launched by Luka Singh, who began selling customers in the capital to his personal vinyl. He later set up the store to expand his business and re -present the music format for Delhi.

A view of the Pagal Records Store in Hauz Khas Village, Delhi. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Now, the store is owned by Abhay Panwar, which calls it a “culture store” more than just a record store. “Store renewed interest in vinyl culture in the city,” says Abhay Panwar.

Abhay Pagal records a long time customer and who were buying records from. “I bought the store in December 2024, because I could not let it go once,” says Abhay. “It would seem that Pagal was missing anything without a record.”

The store has a vinyl collection of various types of styles including rock, jazz, electronic, Bollywood and Indian classical music. A rare “sticky fingers” signed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the signed copies of the tunes of Ravi Shankar and Anawasha Shankar for the album records, this place highlights the uniqueness of being the owner of the vintage record. “We are mostly under pressure, ie records pressed for decades in the 1960s,” says Abhay.

Pagal records are often sources of vinyl collectors who want to sell old records. Bollywood record stores are most easily achieved, while some records are obtained from countries including Italy and Japan abroad. A large part of their customers occurs regularly that spends up to 10,000 on a vinyl record and sometimes requests the team for specific records.

A view of the Pagal Records Store in Hauz Khas Village, Delhi. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

However, Abhay says that the Pagal records team is trying to reduce prices to make records more economical for its target audiences – the youth are looking for a new hobby or music in the 20s. The cost of their records. Starts at 1,000 and is based on style and rarity and style.

Abhay cited the indifference of customers’ indifference in paying for music on online platforms as a reason for the return of vinyl culture. “People are only done with consuming a form of music, and they realize that they can get more than the money they are spending on it.”

This, Abhay says, this is why Pagal records are trying to reduce their prices to make records more cheap for their new target audiences – in their 20s, youth are looking for a new hobby or new music. Previously, his customer base included most of the working professionals and musicians who could buy records.

Although Pagal wants to promote a new generation of record music lovers, they also want customers to search for new styles and artists through vinyl.

“The number of records being sold in Post-Covid, Delhi has increased manifold,” says Abhay. But we do not want to make work very easy for people. ” To inspire customers to find music themselves, the small team in Pagal records leads to the “Do-It-It-Eorcell” approach. They invite customers to dig the crates, spend time listening to the records selected on the in-store turnteable, and then make their final pick.

5 in Hauz Khas village, near Deer Park; Open daily from 12 noon to 8 pm