Record stores in Cebu City

Zero mapped record stores in Cebu City, Central Visayas — for now. We checked OpenStreetMap within about 40 km of Cebu City for record stores. No hits yet, which most often means the places are there but unmapped, not absent. This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so a blank today can be a full guide tomorrow.

Digging around Cebu City anyway

No mapped record shops doesn't mean no vinyl. The usual stand-ins: charity-shop record sections (priced to move, restocked by donations), estate sales, flea markets, and the nearest city's record shops — worth a day trip with a want-list and a full tank.

Cebu City sits near the equator. There's no real off-season for digging here, so shops restock on their own rhythms — ask when new used stock hits the floor.

And ask at the library: some lend vinyl now, and librarians always know where the local collectors trade.

Digging smarts for Cebu City

No mapped record shops yet, but the digging skills work anywhere. Four worth knowing:

• Learn your labels. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Go often, dig briefly. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.

What earns a listing in Cebu City

Our bar is a walk-in shop selling recorded music on physical formats. New, used, or both — if the bins are the business, it qualifies.

When a qualifying record store gets mapped in Cebu City, this page updates on the next refresh with its name, address where available, and whatever hours, phone or website the mappers recorded. Nothing here is paid placement and nothing is sponsored — if it's on the map, it's on the page.

This page refreshes daily from the latest map data, so the moment a qualifying record store appears in Cebu City's OpenStreetMap data, it shows up here — usually within a day of being mapped.

Put Cebu City on the map

Know a record store here that isn't listed? The fastest route onto this page runs through OpenStreetMap: add it as shop=music with its name and address, and it'll appear here after our next daily refresh. Local knowledge beats every dataset. The most useful details are the record store's name, its street address, and its opening hours — even a name and a pin on the map is enough to get started.