Record stores in Bandung

Record shops reward the patient digger. Bandung, West Java has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 record shops mapped around Bandung. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Bandung (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vinyl Record Store and kollektiv store, plus LVERecords. If a record shop's missing from Bandung's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Bandung record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Bandung

None of the 5 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Jl. Kotabaru Raya No.27, Bandung, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

Most of the record stores in Bandung list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Bandung record crawl

The efficient Bandung record crawl strings these together: Vinyl Record Store on Jl. H. Mesri No.20, Bandung, kollektiv store on Jl. Wira Angun Angun No.4C, Bandung, LVERecords on Jl. Kotabaru Raya No.27, Bandung, Strive Records on Jl. Kotabaru Raya No.27, Bandung, and Raf Music Indonesia on Jl. Taman Pramuka No.181, Bandung — 5 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Bandung

A few things worth knowing before you work through Bandung's record stores:

• Genre-hop at Vinyl Record Store. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Ask about want-list services at kollektiv store. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Handle records properly in the shop. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.
• Ask the staff what's new. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Bandung — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Bandung can take a while to appear. The 5 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 5 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.