Record stores in Dhaka

Vinyl hunting in Dhaka, Dhaka? There are 7 record shops mapped here. That's 7 record shops mapped around Dhaka. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Dhaka (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Wada Sound Syestem and Shibli Mic Service, plus Rocky VCD World. If a record shop's missing from Dhaka's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Dhaka record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Dhaka

1 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The Dhaka record crawl

Making a day of it in Dhaka? Work this order: Wada Sound Syestem on 93 Keshab Benarjee Road, Shibli Mic Service, Rocky VCD World, Musical Shop, Ruali Musical Store, Ganer Bhubon, and Road House Music on 262 Road 10/A. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Dhaka

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

• Visit on restock days at Wada Sound Syestem. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Ask about want-list services at Shibli Mic Service. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Dhaka — 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 Dhaka can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 7, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 7 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.