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Fostering Community Through Music
A favorite album can start a conversation between strangers. A recommendation can send you home with a new favorite artist. And sometimes, the record you’ve spent years looking for is waiting in the next bin.
Those experiences are at the heart of For The Record Vinyl.
Based in South Bend, Indiana, we organize record shows across the region, sell new and pre-loved music online and on the road, and buy collections. Along the way, we bring together people who love listening to music, collecting it, and sharing what they’ve found.
Meet Our Team
Jeremy D. Bonfiglio
Owner & Founder
Jeremy is a lifelong music fan and record collector whose enthusiasm extends from familiar favorites to artists who never quite got their due.
He grew up browsing the bins at Dingleberry’s in Centerville, Ohio, where the music and welcoming atmosphere made a lasting impression. That feeling of finding a place where you belong—and always having another record to discover—helps shape his approach to For The Record Vinyl.
Jeremy spent much of his career in newspaper journalism, writing and editing stories about music, entertainment, and the arts. Interviewing musicians gave him opportunities to explore the stories behind the records and the people who made them. Today, he also works as Music Category Manager at BCW Supplies, working with record stores and others throughout the music industry.
But if you meet him at a show, you’re just as likely to talk about an overlooked ’80s album or your favorite Elvis Costello record.
His interests run especially deep in new wave, power pop, synth-pop, college rock, and alternative music. Elvis Costello has a particularly substantial home in the FTR bins. Jeremy brings that same curiosity to buying collections, where the unexpected finds are often half the fun.
Will Bonfiglio
Sales & Operations Manager
Jeremy’s son Will has been going to record shows with his dad since he was 8 years old. Today, he helps run them, assisting customers and dealers, organizing merchandise, and handling the loading, setup, and problem-solving that keep show days moving.
His musical tastes stretch from Tom Jones to Radiohead, and his connection to music goes beyond collecting. A 2025 graduate of Riley High School, Will became the first percussionist in the school’s history to receive the Louis Armstrong Award as its top jazz band musician.
Will is currently studying business at Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend while putting that education to work at For The Record Vinyl. Whether he’s helping someone find an album, picking out CDs and cassettes for our inventory, or lending a dealer a hand, he brings years of experience and his own musical perspective to the business.
Our Record Shows
For The Record Vinyl promotes the South Bend Record Show, Fort Wayne Record Show, Southwest Michigan Record Show, Bloomington Music Expo, Glass City Record Show, and Evansville Record Show.
Each brings together dealers with different specialties, backgrounds, and inventories. You’ll find new releases and well-loved classics, collectible pressings and inexpensive discoveries, along with CDs, cassettes, and music memorabilia.
We want people to feel comfortable browsing, asking questions, and talking music. You don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of pressing variations—or a long shopping list—to enjoy a record show.
For our dealers, we put care into the work that makes an event run well: clear communication, promotion, organization, and help when it’s needed. Many of those relationships continue from one show to the next, helping each event develop its own familiar faces and character.
In Our Bins
You’ll also find For The Record Vinyl selling at shows throughout the Midwest and beyond.
Our selection includes new and pre-loved LPs, CDs, and cassettes, with particular depth in the music of the 1980s and 1990s. Expect familiar favorites alongside one-hit wonders, overlooked albums, and titles you may not have thought about in years.
We regularly buy collections, so the selection keeps changing. Some records arrive with a specific customer in mind. Others introduce us to something we haven’t heard before.
Simple FAQs
Our record shows offer an ever-changing mix of tens of thousands of pre-loved and new music, including LPs, 45s, CDs, cassettes as well as music memorabilia, posters, T-shirts, vintage stereo gear, and music supplies, such as inner and outer sleeves.
Dealers and collectors travel from throughout the Midwest and beyond to attend our shows. Vendors regularly travel from throughout Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Customers can expect well-curated selections ranging from bargain finds to high-end collectibles. Various musical genres are represented, including classic rock, pop, metal, punk, prog rock, oldies rock, blues, jazz, R&B, soul, hip-hop, soundtracks, country, bluegrass, folk, and more.
While some of our vendors do accept credit and debit cards, PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, Apple Pay and other forms of payment, cash is preferred at all of our record shows. Admission is cash only.
Yes. We always look for well-cared-for vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and more. If you have one record or an entire collection, contact Jeremy D. Bonfiglio at 574-261-3650 (call or text), email him at jeremybonfiglio@att.net, or meet him at a show. Since individual dealers have their specialties, he can best direct you to who would be most interested in your items.
Our shows are open to all types of sellers, including stores, collectors, individuals selling off an inherited collection, you name it. We try to make every show accessible for music fans, but these are also curated shows. Quality merchandise is essential. If you are a new vendor, please plan to book tables well in advance (because we do sell out), follow the simple show guidelines, and register on the Dealer Info page. See individual show pages for more information on dates and times.
Just email Jeremy at jeremybonfiglio@att.net, or sign up at the next show. We only use our email lists to send you information about shows you are interested in or our online vinyl store. You won’t be bombarded with unwanted emails.