Collect andSurvive

Collect and Survive is a record shop on South Road in Waterloo, run by Allan Deaves, who grew up in nearby Crosby and worked at a local record shop during the 1980s. He started Collect and Survive as a pop-up stall in Crosby in 2019 before taking a permanent unit in Waterloo, sharing premises with the Writeblend print studio. The shop stocks new and second-hand vinyl across genres, along with cassettes, CDs and record-care products such as brushes, inner sleeves and cleaning fluid. It lists stock through Discogs and has partnered with Legend Vinyl, a Merseyside pressing and slipmat supplier, to sell branded accessories. Deaves and his staff handle trade-ins and want lists for collectors, and the shop keeps a changing stock of soul, reggae, indie and dance records sourced from house clearances and private collections. It is one of a small number of dedicated vinyl retailers operating north of Liverpool city centre, serving Waterloo, Crosby and the wider Sefton coast.