Record stores in Exeter

Vinyl hunting in Exeter, England? There are 5 record shops mapped here. That's 5 record shops mapped around Exeter. 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 Exeter (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include HMV and Mr Gig Shop, plus Rooster Records. If a record shop's missing from Exeter's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Exeter record lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Exeter

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

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

The Exeter record crawl

Making a day of it in Exeter? Work this order: HMV on 10-11 Princesshay, Mr Gig Shop, Rooster Records on 98 Fore Street, SPS Records, and Martian Records. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Exeter

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

• Go often, dig briefly at HMV. Short frequent visits beat rare expeditions. Fifteen minutes twice a week outperforms a monthly dig.
• The listening station is the test at Mr Gig Shop. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Check for warps in the shop. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Exeter — 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 Exeter can take a while to appear. The 5 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 5 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.