I walked into Guestroom Records Edmond with no real plan, which is exactly how a record store gets you.
Forty-five minutes later, I was standing there trying to convince myself that an $89 NOFX record marked “Red Label First Press” was not, in fact, a financial necessity. I picked it up. I put it down. I circled back. I stared at it long enough that it probably should have been invited to Thanksgiving.
That is the danger of a good record store. You think you are browsing. The store knows better.
Guestroom Records Edmond opened in 2025 at 180 W. 15th Street, adding another Oklahoma location for one of the state’s longtime independent record shops. I’ve been going to the Oklahoma City Guestroom for a while, and after buying my wife a record player for Christmas last year, I have apparently entered the stage of life where “just looking” at records is a lie I tell myself in public.
From Pizza Shuttle to Edmond
Guestroom has one of the better Oklahoma retail origin stories.
Founders Justin Sowers and Travis Searle met while living in the dorms at the University of Oklahoma. Before Guestroom had a storefront, they were working as Pizza Shuttle delivery drivers and building a record business on the side. For about a year and a half, they essentially ran a door-to-door record shop, taking orders and delivering records when shipments came in.
Their first physical store opened in downtown Norman in July 2003, stocked at the start with their own combined music collections, roughly 1,600 LPs and 1,900 CDs. The Norman shop later moved to Main Street, Guestroom expanded to Oklahoma City in 2007, and now Edmond has a spot in the rotation too.
That is a pretty good run from delivering pizzas and records around Norman.
The Edmond shop is clean, easy to browse, and loaded with the kind of inventory that slows you down. There are new records, used records, CDs, tapes, shirts, stickers, and Guestroom merch. The bins cover plenty of ground: punk, indie, hip-hop, metal, country, jazz, electronic, soundtracks, pop, and the miscellaneous “what am I even looking at?” section that every proper record store produces sooner or later.
Guestroom also buys used vinyl, CDs, and tapes, depending on condition and what makes sense for the store’s inventory. That matters because the shelves are not limited to whatever is currently being pressed. You still get the surprise factor.
The weird stuff is the point
One record that stopped me was Charli xcx’s *Music, Fashion, Film*.
The cover has John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese on it, representing music, fashion, and film. Charli herself is not even on the cover. That is exactly the sort of thing I like about going into an actual record store. I probably would not have searched online for “Charli xcx album with Martin Scorsese staring at me,” but put it in front of me while I’m flipping through records and suddenly I need to know what is going on.
Then came the NOFX record.
I almost bought it. I did not. I may still. That record and I have unfinished business.
The best part, though, was talking with the guy at the counter about NOFX for probably ten minutes. That is where Guestroom started feeling less like a retail stop and more like the record shops people get nostalgic about even if they were not alive for the first version. A little Empire Records energy, people hanging around, talking about bands, recommending things, and spending more time inside than any reasonable shopping trip requires.
You can buy a record online in 30 seconds. You cannot accidentally talk yourself into, then out of, then maybe back into an $89 first pressing while chatting with somebody who actually cares about the band.
That is why these places still work.
Guestroom has also become part of the metro scenery in its own small way. If you spend enough time around Oklahoma City, you have probably seen the logo on a sticker somewhere, a light pole, a sign, some little corner of town where band flyers and shop stickers gather like urban moss. I like that stuff. It makes a city feel lived in.
The Edmond location gives record collectors north of OKC another place to dig without having to treat it like a whole production. Go in for a specific new release if you want. Call ahead if you are hunting something particular. But the better move is to walk in with loose intentions and let the bins do what they do.
Maybe you find the record you came for.
Maybe you find a Charli xcx cover with Martin Scorsese on it.
Maybe you find an $89 NOFX first pressing that follows you around the store like a bad decision wearing eyeliner.
I walked out without it.
For now.
Details
- Address: 180 W. 15th St., Suite 130, Edmond, OK 73013
- Phone: (405) 254-4866
- Hours: Monday-Saturday 11am-9pm, Sunday 11am-7pm
- Website: https://www.guestroomrecords.com/
