“Music stores encapsulate a moment in history,” said Emily Judem, co-director of “For the Records,” a documentary about the demise of the Manhattan music mecca Bleecker Bob’s in 2013. “When you walk into one, they bring you back to a time that seems to be disappearing.”

That’s especially true in Greenwich Village. “It had been an artsy, progressive area associated with social change,” she said. “Many people still associate those changes with the Village record stores.”

Rebel Rebel, at 319 Bleecker Street, epitomizes that funky passion. It looks as perilous as it does alluring. Inside the coffin-narrow, gangplank-long space, cardboard boxes choke the only aisle. They’re stacked into towers that buckle with LPs, CDs, EPs, DVDs, 12-inch picture discs, seven-inch 45s and collectibles of every kind. At the front stands the owner, David Shebiro, looking surprisingly serene.

Rebel Rebel has benefited in recent years from a growing mania for vinyl. Purchases in the format leapt 30 percent last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, generating more profit for record companies than YouTube streams.