Record stores in Groningen

Groningen, Groningen has 7 record stores on the map. That's 7 record shops mapped around Groningen. 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 Groningen (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Plato Groningen and Swing Master, plus Elpee. If a record shop's missing from Groningen's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Groningen record lineup

7 in Groningen, plus 1 more around Groningen below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Groningen

4 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.

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

The Groningen record crawl

Making a day of it in Groningen? Work this order: Plato Groningen on 41 Oude Ebbingestraat, Swing Master on 20 Pelsterstraat, Elpee on 33 Gelkingestraat, The Magic Buzz on 8 Steentilstraat, De Jongens van Hemmes on 10 Steentilstraat, Headline on 19 Steentilstraat, and Terts & Toets on 34 Werumeus Buningstraat. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for Groningen

Digging in Groningen? A few habits pay off:

• Learn your labels at Plato Groningen. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Visit on restock days at Swing Master. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Groningen — 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 Groningen can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Groningen

1 more within about 40 km of Groningen, nearest first: