Record stores in Belfast

Record shops reward the patient digger. Belfast, Northern Ireland has 4 mapped right now. That's 4 record shops mapped around Belfast. 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 Belfast (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include HMV and Sick Records, plus Sound Advice. If a record shop's missing from Belfast's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Belfast record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Belfast

2 of the 4 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Belfast record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: HMV on Castle Place, Sick Records on 78 North Street, Sound Advice, and Voodoo Soup Records on 17 Winetavern Street. That's 4 stops on the Belfast record crawl.

Record digging tips for Belfast

How the regulars work Belfast's bins:

• Don't overlook cassettes and CDs at HMV. The tape and CD sections are chronically underpriced. The format revival hasn't hit them the same way.
• Check for warps in the shop at Sick Records. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• Handle records properly in the shop. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Belfast — 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 Belfast can take a while to appear. The 4 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 4 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.