Operating out of an 1,100-square-foot wood-paneled storefront on Newport Avenue since its 1988 purchase from the Arcade Music chain, Cow Records stands as Ocean Beach's longest-running record shop. Inventory sits at roughly 5,000 titles across LPs, CDs, DVDs, cassettes, 45s, VHS, and 8-tracks — a physical-media breadth that pairs with the collectible-object side of OB's retail mix including the antique and vintage stock at Vignettes-Antiques & Collectibles. A dedicated listening area lets buyers audition vinyl before purchase. Pricing starts at a dollar bin and runs up through sought-after rarities, with donated collections from estate sales regularly seeding the shelves with hard-to-find punk, jazz, and rock pressings. The same collector foot traffic that walks through here also works the booths at Ocean Beach Antique Mall, treating both shops as stops on the same vintage-hunting circuit. The most substantial transactions are full personal-collection appraisals and buyouts, with the owner evaluating a seller's boxed vinyl archive piece-by-piece before negotiating a flat-cash offer.