Record stores in Den Bosch

Den Bosch, North Brabant has 4 record stores on the map. That's 4 record shops mapped around Den Bosch. 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 Den Bosch (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Doogan Records and Stichting de Langspeelplaat, plus The Record Hustler. If a record shop's missing from Den Bosch's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Den Bosch record lineup

4 in Den Bosch, plus 6 more around Den Bosch below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Den Bosch

2 of the 4 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.

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

The Den Bosch record crawl

Making a day of it in Den Bosch? Work this order: Doogan Records on 72 Dode Nieuwstraat, Stichting de Langspeelplaat on 71 Hinthamereinde, The Record Hustler on 33 Hinthamereinde, and Rap Winkel on 492 Zuiderparkweg. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Den Bosch

A few things worth knowing before you work through Den Bosch's record stores:

• Learn to spot reissues at Doogan Records. Reissues are cheaper and often sound great. Originals cost more for the history. Know which you're paying for.
• The dollar bin is honest work at Stichting de Langspeelplaat. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Check Discogs before big purchases. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.

Good to know

We searched about 25 km around Den Bosch — 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 Den Bosch can take a while to appear. The 4 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 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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Den Bosch

6 more within about 25 km of Den Bosch, nearest first: