The Vinyl Map

Highlights

Everything here is drawn from the same dated, sourced listings as the rest of the map — just asked a different question than “what’s near me”.

• The oldest record shops

  2,154 shops with a founding year on record

  Going back to 1850 — counters that were selling records before the LP existed, and are still open.

• Shops that buy collections

  823 shops that buy records from the public

  If you have a collection to sell, these are the shops that will take it — with addresses, so you can find the nearest.

• Listening bars & vinyl cafés

  199 places built around playing records

  Bars and cafés where the record is the point, not the background — a format Tokyo invented and the world borrowed.

• Are record stores dying?

  7,055 reasons the answer is no

  The question everyone asks, answered with a count instead of a take — openings, closures, and where the floor really is.

• The memorial

  471 shops that have closed

  Record shops that are gone, kept on the record with the date they shut and the source that reported it.