Record stores in Cleveland
Record shops reward the patient digger. Cleveland, OH has 15 mapped right now. That's 15 record shops mapped around Cleveland. 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 Cleveland (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Hausfrau Record Shop and Mistake By The Lake Records, plus Brittany's Record Shop. If a record shop's missing from Cleveland's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Cleveland record lineup
15 mapped within about 40 km:
Hausfrau Record Shop
Record store3.4 km from Cleveland
Hausfrau Record Shop is Record store. Hausfrau Record Shop also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We-Su 12:00-18:00.
Hours: We-Su 12:00-18:00
Mistake By The Lake Records
Record store4.4 km from Cleveland
Mistake By The Lake Records — Record store, found on 6502 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland.
6502 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland
Brittany's Record Shop
Record store6.2 km from Cleveland
Brittany's Record Shop — Record store, found on 6410 Fleet Avenue in cleveland.
6410 Fleet Avenue, cleveland
A Separate Reality Records
Record store6.6 km from Cleveland
A Separate Reality Records is Record store on 11121 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland.
11121 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland
CD Game Exchange
Record store9.2 km from Cleveland
CD Game Exchange is Record store.
The Vinyl Groove Records
Record store9.3 km from Cleveland
The Vinyl Groove Records — Record store, found on 5100 Pearl Road in Cleveland.
5100 Pearl Road, Cleveland, 44136
The Exchange
Record store9.4 km from Cleveland
The Exchange — Record store on 15100 Detroit Avenue. Also worth knowing about The Exchange: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
15100 Detroit Avenue, 44107
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00
Phone: +1-216-521-0045
My Minds Eye
Record store10.1 km from Cleveland
My Minds Eye is Record store.
The Current Year
Record store10.7 km from Cleveland
The Current Year — Record store, found on 5580 Ridge Road in Parma. Also worth knowing about The Current Year: the map lists its hours as We,Fr,Sa 11:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5580 Ridge Road, Parma, 44129
Hours: We,Fr,Sa 11:00-18:00
Phone: +1-440-879-7227
Star Pop
Record store12.8 km from Cleveland
Star Pop is Record store. Star Pop also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Su 12:00-17:00; We-Fr 14:00-19:00; Sa 12:00-19:00.
Hours: Su 12:00-17:00; We-Fr 14:00-19:00; Sa 12:00-19:00
Blue Arrow Records
Record store12.8 km from Cleveland
Blue Arrow Records is Record store on 16001 Waterloo Road, Cleveland.
16001 Waterloo Road, Cleveland
The Exchange
Record store13.6 km from Cleveland
The Exchange — Record store on 6277 Pearl Road. Also worth knowing about The Exchange: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
6277 Pearl Road, 44130
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-21:00; Su 11:00-19:00
Phone: +1-440-845-0828
f.y.e.
Record store23.9 km from Cleveland
f.y.e. — Record store.
Rettig Music
Record store30.9 km from Cleveland
Rettig Music is Record store on 1421 Town Center Boulevard, Brunswick.
1421 Town Center Boulevard, Brunswick, 44212
Record Den
Record store32.1 km from Cleveland
Record Den — Record store, found on 7661 Mentor Avenue in Mentor.
7661 Mentor Avenue, Mentor, 44060
What the map tells us about record stores in Cleveland
5 of the 15 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 Cleveland record crawl
The efficient Cleveland record crawl strings these together: Hausfrau Record Shop, Mistake By The Lake Records on 6502 Lorain Avenue, Brittany's Record Shop on 6410 Fleet Avenue, A Separate Reality Records on 11121 Detroit Avenue, CD Game Exchange, The Vinyl Groove Records on 5100 Pearl Road, The Exchange on 15100 Detroit Avenue, and My Minds Eye — 15 stops, one logical order. 7 more are listed below.
Record digging tips for Cleveland
A few things worth knowing before you work through Cleveland's record stores:
- Learn your labels at Hausfrau Record Shop. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
- Ask to play it at Mistake By The Lake Records. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
- Learn to spot reissues. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
- Visit on restock days. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Cleveland — 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 Cleveland can take a while to appear. The 15 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 15 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.
Record store listings for Cleveland: 15 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.