Record stores in Cambridge

Record shops reward the patient digger. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire has 9 mapped right now. That's 9 record shops mapped around Cambridge. 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 Cambridge (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Fopp and Richard Reason Pianos, plus Lost In Vinyl. If a record shop's missing from Cambridge's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cambridge record lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Cambridge

4 of the 9 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

The Cambridge record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Fopp on 37 Sidney Street, Richard Reason Pianos on 94 Tilehouse Street, Lost In Vinyl on 14 Magdalene Street, Relevant Records on 260 Mill Road, Your Vinyl Answer on 29a High Street, Revolution Records on 7 Melbourn Street, Upstairs Records on 39A Saint Andrew's Street, and David's Music on 12 Eastcheap. That's 9 stops on the Cambridge record crawl. 1 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Cambridge

Digging in Cambridge? A few habits pay off:

• Don't clean records with your shirt at Fopp. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.
• Visit on restock days at Richard Reason Pianos. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Check the bargain wall rhythm. Shops restock the cheap sections on cycles. Ask when — that's when the fresh bargains land.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cambridge — 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 Cambridge can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 9, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 9 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.