"Truth in advertising: Used Records and Tapes is a collection of brief essays and reviews regarding pre-owned tapes and LPs found by the contributors… As a zine, Used Records and Tapes is nicely done with full-color card stock covers and a crisply simple layout. Clearly, this wasn’t published on an employer’s time and photocopiers… The contents are a nostalgic romp for the writers and the reader. More trivia dealing, wistful rumination, and amused musings than hard-edged musical criticism and historicity à la Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus (though their influence is felt). Used Records and Tapes isn’t a record-collecting bully zine, talking about bands you probably never heard of because, scoff, they’re pretty obscure."—Dan Kelly, Third Coast Review
"...this is a remarkably well-produced little book, and a nice collection of music criticism. Most endearing are the hand-drawn reproductions of reviewed album covers, some impressively accurate and others delightfully off-kilter. The reviews themselves also tend towards the funny. By its nature, Used Records & Tapes deals primarily in nostalgia, but none of the critics leave their biases unexamined. Some reviews are vectors for personal stories, of live shows or music discovered as a youth, and some reflections more on music history in general, and the changing landscape of pop, rap, or boy bands."—Ian Gregory, ComicsXF
