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Filters that mean it
Every pill here maps to a real pressing detail — genre, format, decade, colour — not a marketing tag. Swap the catalog for a completely different kind of shop and the same engine keeps working.
About
Records worth
the shelf space.
WAX started in the back of a van at record fairs, selling out of milk crates before the doors opened. Now it's a proper shop — same crate-digging instinct, same refusal to sell you a record we haven't actually put a needle to first.
Why we exist
Buying a record shouldn't feel like guessing.Every record on this shelf is filterable by the things that actually decide whether you'll play it twice — genre, format, decade and pressing colour — laid out as plain filters instead of buried in a crate you have to flip through one sleeve at a time.
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Honest by default
Nothing here pretends to be a backend it isn't. The cart is real, the checkout total is real math, and the confirmation says plainly that no order is placed.
03
Considered, then disciplined
A calm palette and a strict grid, with motion that always has a reduced-motion twin. The craft is in what's left out, not piled on.
The shop floor
Every crate gets flipped through by hand before it's listed.No dropshipped stock, no blind reissues. If a pressing rattles or a jacket's split seam is worse than described, it doesn't make the shelf — online or in the shop.
How this shop is built
Every record photo here is real, self-hosted photography — downloaded once at build time, converted to compact WebP, and served from this domain. No stock photo API calls at runtime, no external image hosts, no hotlinking. Every artist and album title in the catalog is invented; the photography shows generic vinyl, turntables and shop shelves, never a reproduction of a real release.
The storefront runs entirely in your browser: no backend, no API calls. Adding to cart and placing an order update local state directly, persisted to this browser's localStorage — instant, and honestly labelled as a demo. Nothing is ever charged and no order is transmitted anywhere.
The five filters
Every field below is declared once, in one data file, and the shop keeps working:
genre
Genre
Rock · Jazz · Electronic · Hip-Hop · Classical · Soul
format
Format
LP · Double LP · 7" · Box Set
decade
Decade
60s · 70s · 80s · 90s · 2000s+
colour
Colour
Black · Coloured · Splatter · Picture Disc
priceBand
Price
Under $25 · $25–50 · $50–100 · $100+