Record stores in Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio has 10 record stores on the map. That's 10 record shops mapped around Cincinnati. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Cincinnati (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Shake It Records and Another Part of the Forest, plus Mike's Music. If a record shop's missing from Cincinnati's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Cincinnati record lineup

10 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Cincinnati

5 of the 10 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

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

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

The Cincinnati record crawl

The efficient Cincinnati record crawl strings these together: Shake It Records on 4156 Hamilton Avenue, Another Part of the Forest on 1333 Main Street, Mike's Music, Alien Records on 1207 Vine Street, Feel It Records on 356 Ludlow Avenue, Sessions Vinyl Room on 4011 Allston Street, Hey Suburbia Records on 108 West Main Street, and Jet Age Records — 10 stops, one logical order. 2 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Cincinnati

How the regulars work Cincinnati's bins:

• Visit on restock days at Shake It Records. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Buy the weird stuff at Another Part of the Forest. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Cincinnati — 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 Cincinnati can take a while to appear. The 10 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 10 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.