Record stores in Chiang Mai

Record shops reward the patient digger. Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai has 4 mapped right now. That's 4 record shops mapped around Chiang Mai. 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 Chiang Mai (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Maximum Sound and Churairat Music, plus Deaf Shop. If a record shop's missing from Chiang Mai's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Chiang Mai record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Chiang Mai

None of the 4 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.

The Chiang Mai record crawl

The efficient Chiang Mai record crawl strings these together: Maximum Sound, Churairat Music, Deaf Shop, and 90's Janpop Studio — 4 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Chiang Mai

Digging in Chiang Mai? A few habits pay off:

• Ask about want-list services at Maximum Sound. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Bring cash for the small shops at Churairat Music. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.
• Go often, dig briefly. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• 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 Chiang Mai — 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 Chiang Mai can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 4 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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.