Published May 8, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Wax Heads turns record store management into a chill puzzle game If you love Mixtape, you need to try this week's other great music game Image: Patattie Games/Curve Games I can’t imagine that the guy who ran the local record store in my college town remembers me, but I reckon I’ll never forget him. An aging English punk who wore a tight black tee like a uniform, he was just as responsible for shaping me into the person I am today as my professors. Any time I’d visit the store, something I was doing two times a week minimum for four years, I’d walk away with what would become a personality-defining record hand-picked for me by someone who, to me, was the epitome of cool. More impactful than the recommendations was the fact that I never got the sense he looked down on me as a lowly college kid harshing his vibe. Everyone was cool at Angry Mom Records. The same is true at Repeater Records, the fictional music shop at the center of Wax Heads .…